My documentary work is about community; I am interested in the people and how they connect with their environment. I enjoy straight photojournalism, recording Cambridge in both town and gown. Conversely, I have been known to inject humour and playfulness when making photographs by contriving situations and posing subjects for a specific purpose where narrative demands.
I look for projects that create bodies of work which need to be considered and exhibited collectively. Connecting individual photos to a collection enables telling a more complete story but requires discipline in decision making. For example, sometimes the stronger photo is sacrificed for one that tells a better story. This was certainly the case when photographing the oral history project, Histon Rd: A Community Remembers, a project sponsored by the Cambridge City Council and destined for the Cambridge Archives at the Museum of Cambridge.
The best way to annoy me is to crop one of my photos . . . while it may improve the photograph, it stops being my complete vision. Don't do it!
I am open to ideas and collaborations and available for commissions.
