Lost Woodlands 2020-2023
Breaking Chains - 2023
The hearts and minds that make the magic - 2024
Stories of Conviction - 2024 (ongoing)
Is an ongoing document of the experiences of political prisoners, incarcerated for their acts of protest against war, climate change and injustice.
The Bottom Field 2020
At a time of limited social interaction or mobility, locked down in a rural village in Wales, I spent my time documenting the very small life happening around me, within one square mile of where I was living.
The Bottom Field documents Phil and the Shetland ponies that were his lifeline and therapy. The series captures his family, grandchildren, the birth of a foal and the subsequent relationship formed between Gethin, his grandson, and the new arrival.
This project gained an honourable mention at the PX3 awards 2020.
Remembrance of Innocence 2020
"The main factor that makes a pilgrimage, a pilgrimage, rather than a long walk, is the element of the unknown. Yes, you might know what path you are walking, but it's the not being against a schedule, not having to plan, not knowing who you'll meet and letting the magic unfold"
Remembrance of Innocence is a story of grief, silence and connection to the land, and a lesson in letting go and moving on.
The Menai Mussel Men - 2019
Winter on the Menai Straits. The work is cold and backbreaking. Only the views keep you going.
Shaun Krinjen and his team from Menai Oysters hand pick mussels and oysters from beds lining the Straits. Their work is tide and season dependent, sometimes starting early, at other times they finished late. These pictures were taken over a two day period at the end of October 2019. As the farmers harvest their mussels and oysters by hand they care for and protect the natural environment as they go.
One thing I learnt was that a ton of mussels will produce a lot of mud. One ton produces seventeen tons of it a year. Here they are producing around 50 tons of mussels. Shaun's team told me that they had developed ways to negotiate it, however I spent a lot of time getting stuck and trying not to fall over.
At the time of planning this project some of the other suppliers working along the Menai Straits spoke anxiously about the potential impact of Brexit on the shell fish market. Unlike Shaun, some of the bigger Mussel fisherman sold most of their catch to buyers in Europe. Shaun and Menai Oysters were less concerned due to their healthy UK customer base.
The project is unfinished; cut short by the covid pandemic, followed by my move away from Wales and back to London. I aim to return to see how Shaun, Menai Mussels and Oysters, and the other farmers working the Straits are faring.
