Husnu is Kurdish & lives in the UK. For the past seven years Husnu has repeatedly put his asylum case forward to the Home Office through his solicitor and the local MP without success. The process is long-winded, complex and frustrating. When a local MP contacts the Home Office on behalf of an asylum seeker…
This has been a tricky one to organise and get access. I have been pursuing quite a few options that were pending so in the end I went with 2 subjects I could shoot over the weekend and one I am shooting tomorrow-hopefully! The first one I shot was a band preparing for a gig…really…
For the 3rd and final Human Relationships shoot I really wanted to choose ‘older’ people. I think that I felt it would help me position myself as more of an outsider, more removed, quite simply because I was further away in age from my subjects. I find old people fascinating and I suppose I wanted…
” it’s the moments…the sensitivity for the moment, a moment that’s given to you, something that life gives you, the thing about moments is that they happen, they are gifts given to you, recognising them, that’s what’s magical, that’s what lasts, that’s what moves people and that’s what people remember” Last week I tried out Peter Fraser’s…
Usually I rather like writing things down on a page and physically creating a workbook that contains my ideas, visual resources and whatever else. But I think that’s its a great idea to Blog as another medium through which to explore and get feedback about my photographic practice. So, a little bit about me. I…