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.


PHOTOGRAPHY

 

FILM

Film created by Jenny, showcasing the work of HERE+NOW (former Co-Founder/Director 2014-2019).

Short film created for the launch of Translation by Tissø Lake, ITLAN records.

Film by Jenny, documenting HERE+NOW’s use of the Scottish Government’s Place Standard wheel, as part of ‘People and Places: Make Leith Better’ project with Leith Creative

In 2019 I created the graphic design, branding and web-design for Edinburgh Living Lab, including creation of a short introductory film.

Film created by Jenny to document project ‘Space to Sit’ by Here+Now at The Grove in Fountainbridge’s meanwhile space.

Film and videography commission for client Living Streets Scotland in 2022 including assembling audio and visual user interview footage of everyday walking UX. Launched at the Living Streets Big Walking Seminar and featured on their website.

A local social history and conversation with local legend - Joyce of Joyce's Cake Shop, Canonmills, Edinburgh. Originally made through interviews with Joyce in her cake shop to enable her to be included as a speaker at HERE+NOW’s 'PEP Talk' event in 2015 which she could not attend, the film shows a rare insight into the stories and memories of local places that are often passed down by word of mouth.

Site-specific visual projection created for the Bonspiel gig series, set on the slopes of Arthur’s Seat parkland, Edinburgh 2017-2019.