I use photography and short films as an effective and engaging way to visually communicate, document and share urban design, built environment, and people-focussed project work to inspire a wider audience, as part of a creative participatory process, or for reporting and summary purposes.
I am often brought in by clients as a freelance photographer with a background in landscape architecture, built environment design and user engagement to document key events, workshops, stakeholder meetings, design stages or other aspects of projects .
Other times I take a larger role to lead a creative process that combines photography, short film, curated exhibitions and/or other visual outputs with a wider stakeholder or user research strategy to provide insights, collaboration and inspiration to feed into the project team’s design decisions or increase project awareness and support. I also specialise in providing high-quality documentary, architectural, city or street photography to capture the essence of different places, tell their stories, and/or communicate final built environment project outputs.
Self-directed creative photography projects have focused on the hidden stories of everyday places, documentary portrait photography, and ways to bring people together. around local places For example, Looking for Rainbows doorstep portrait photography series from lockdown in 2020, or Hold Me Dear.