About

Writing about yourself is a strange thing to ask someone to do. I'm going to try anyway.

Fifteen years as a photographer. Before that, film sets, a lot of travelling, and a brief period where I thought I might figure out what I actually wanted to do with my life. Photography sort of answered that before I got the chance to overthink it.

I'm curious about people. Always have been. Not in a weird way. In the way where you're at a party and you'd rather talk to one person properly than work the room. I notice things. The small shifts. The moment someone stops thinking about how they look and just exists for a second. That's the bit I'm after.

I don't really do forced poses or "give me a big smile." I think that approach peaked somewhere around 2003. What I do instead is just make it fairly normal to be in the room, and let the photos happen around that.

I was diagnosed with ADHD a few years ago. Which I mention not because it's interesting in itself but because it genuinely explains something about how I work. I read rooms quickly. I notice things other people miss. It's not always useful in life but in a studio it turns out to be pretty handy.

I like early mornings. Good light. Coffee before talking to anyone. Maybe that's the whole job really.