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For over 9 years I've been capturing moments and telling stories through protests, events, portraits and shoots. I've worked as the in-house photographer and Digital Manager for national UK-based charities Citizens UK and the Living Wage Foundation. I've taken images for Rotary International and NHS Wales. My images have featured in national media outlets and on high-profile social media accounts such as the Prince and Princess of Wales' official Instagram account. I enjoy using photography as a visual exploration of human emotion, and a tool for communicating hope. I've found that power doesn't always lie where we expect it to in society. I try to take photos that help us notice it in everyday acts of change, led by people who are not as often seen in front of the lens.
GENERAL ELECTION 2024
Citizens UK General Election Assembly featuring Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner; Lord Newby and MP candidate Sara Gezdari.
THE PRINCESS OF WALES VISITS PARENT ACTION
Parent Action is a community group based in London and Tyneside, which supports parents to thrive and campaign on issues from healthcare to education.
FORMULA 1
Portfolio features shots of Formula 1 drivers Lewis Hamilton, Charles Leclerc, Carlos Sainz and the podium ceremony. Monza 2022.
COMMUNITY ORGANISING
Community organising is a theory of change that originated in the United States. It started as a means of organised labour power by unions of workers, and has been used as a democratic method of winning change throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Neil Jameson, the late founder of Citizens UK, brought these ideas over to the UK over 30 years ago, and today communities in towns and cities organise together to make change on local and national issues.
Central to the method is forming and sustaining close relationships throughout a community, enabling everyday people from different backgrounds and institutions to find common ground and shared interest. Together, these alliances take action and hold decision-makers accountable.
These are some of today's community leaders winning change on issues from mental health, to climate justice, migration reform, education, health and more.
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
Women1000 is a community group based in East London, dedicated to tackling inequalities disproportionately affecting Muslim and ethnic minority women. Women1000 forms pioneering relationships with local charities, organisations and health bodies and develops community-led solutions to a range of issues. These are some of the women who teemed up with Barts NHS Health Trust, Queen Mary University, Macmillan Cancer Support, Mind Mental Health charity, Diabetes UK and more to tackle health inequality this International Women's Day.
THE REAL LIVING WAGE
The campaign for a real Living Wage started over 30 years ago when community leaders in East London decided to take on big employers for a fair wage that would allow workers to live in dignity. These are the stories of today's campaigners.
END POLIO
Rotary International's 'End Polio' initiative has helped to eradicate the deadly disease from almost all countries. Today, all but Afghanistan and Pakistan are free from the endemic. In 2015 I travelled to Delhi with Rotary to document one of their immunisation drives, which involved giving children vaccine drops on their tongues. Volunteers would travel to different parts of the city and its outskirts, marking each vaccinated child with a purple dot on their pinky finger.
Although India had been declared free of any new cases for 4 years at this point, many people still suffered from the effects of the disease. As well as documenting the vaccination drive and community celebrations, I visited some of those living with Polio in one of Delhi's hospitals.
FROM UKRAINE TO THE UK
In 2022 I travelled to Poland to document the journey of a Ukrainian family. They were some of the first to be resettled to the UK by a pioneering scheme connecting communities with international organisation USPUK and the British government. Through the scheme, Ukrainian refugees are matched with host families in the UK and are supported to set up new lives. Many hope they can flourish in a new home until the war has ended.
The famous puppet 'Little Amal' travelled through the streets of Krakow and waved the family off as they embarked on the flight to their new home. The scheme capitalised on an innovative partnership with airline Wizz Air, which provided hundreds of free flights for Ukrainian refugees.
CALAIS JUNGLE
In 2015 the refugee camp in Calais generated national media headlines as people watched the Syrian refugee crisis unfold. Dubbed the 'jungle', millions of refugees were trapped in camps, attempting to flee across the channel or enduring persecution by the authorities.
I travelled to the jungle shortly after the destruction of the camps in 2016. To my surprise there were some people who remained, including the gentleman below. I was touched by his story of enduring resilience and hope for the future.
PROTEST POLITICS
UK Junior Doctor and anti-Trident protests