Projects
About In’Shallah
Insh’Allah is a journey into Fes. Beyond its impressive, ancient and medieval walls I found a group of young Moroccans, as intrigued in me and where I was from, as I was in them. I asked them questions, methodically recorded their responses and photographed our interactions: Are you a Moroccan first or a Muslim? Where…
About Passing Through
The first part of Peacehaven in III Parts is a book called Passing Through. This work explores the notion that history is always more than one single story. By making transparent the process of evidence gathering it alludes to the temporality of history and the role of the visual image within that. By combining an…
Picture editing at the BBC with Phil Coomes
This week I have been doing some picture editing for the BBC News Online Picture desk with Picture Editor Phil Coomes and Emma Lynch. The Day In Pictures and The week in Pictures are similar to other news’ websites pictures galleries featuring striking images from the world’s news such as The Guardian’s 24…
The making of Peacehaven in III Parts
This gallery presents an example of the documentary photography projects about Peacehaven. Starting with the first image I took in Peacehaven this gallery traces some of the key visual elements and plots key moments in the projects progression. Included are shots from the final installations and an interview (coming soon) with Peacehaven’s pub landlord from…
Exhibition Extravaganza! Fundraiser for Peacehaven in III Parts
Friday, October 22 · 7:00pm – 11:30pm Clifton Street, Brighton -near the train station Come along to a fun-filled evening at my indoor autumn fete! Proceeds going towards my Peacehaven exhibitions. Highlights include: Tombola Photograph auction Lucky dip Guess the weight of… Clothes Swap Boutique* (more details below) and much much more! Drink available at…
Peacehaven Poem
Low rise, high skies Cookie cut-out streets Few trees, strong breeze Whistles its lonesome beat Cliff top roads front the coast Edged against the sea Bungalows stand in orderly rows Waiting behind waist high walls Square lawn, birds at dawn Precisely perched on wires Polished cars, perfect paths Sky bright, window tight Wall against the…
Peacehaven in III Parts: LCC MA Critical Report
“Our love of home is in turn an acknowledgement of the degree to which our identity is not self-determined. We need home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for our vulnerability.” Alain De Botton, The Architecture of Happiness, 2006
LCC MA: Peacehaven project plans…
I have been reading ‘The Medium is the Massage’ (Quentin Fiore). It is interesting to read this insightful work in relation to my Rethink project. This book questions, analyses and probes our relationship with the methods of communication we have used throughout history, making connections between these mediums and how they help to shape society…