Portfolio Categories: Public Realm

[cl_column width="2/3" css_style="padding-top:0px"][cl_column width="1/3" col_sticky="1"] London Docklands In 1988 I was a first year student on the BA Photography Degree at The University of Westminster, I was 20 years old. Early one morning I travelled to a largely derelict area of East London known as Docklands carrying a Mamiya 6×7 film camera. The docks covered a large area within a bow in the Thames river called The Isle of Dogs. The docks were deserted, surrounded by huge cranes, warehousing and a few rusty boats. The water was so full of rubbish you could almost walk across it. As the sun rose I made a series of black and white pictures. In 1990 I went to work for The Independent Newspaper in City Road, London. By 1994 the paper had moved to the first building to be constructed in Docklands, the distinctive Canary Wharf Tower, we were based on the 11th floor.  Now, 35 years since my first visit, after a [...]

[cl_column width="2/3" css_style="padding-top:0px"][cl_column width="1/3" col_sticky="1"] Contemporary Lisbon Architecture Lisbon has some fantastic modern architecture by an array of Portuguese and foreign architects. I went to visit some of the highlights, including the MAAT Museum on the riverside, the dramatic Portuguese Pavilion built for the Expo '98 and the concrete headquarters of Energias de Portugal.As always, I enjoy the relationship between people and the buildings and surrounding spaces and I shoot a kind of Architectural Street Photography. Share

[cl_column width="2/3" css_style="padding-top:0px"][cl_column width="1/3" col_sticky="1"] Exodus Exodus was shot in the financial district of London during the global Coronavirus Pandemic between March 2020 and February 2021. Known as The City of London or The Square Mile, the area is full of impressive glass and steel landmark office buildings. On 23rd March 2020, the British Government announced a lockdown imposing new rules on the movement of the population in an effort to control the spread of the Coronavirus. Offices were closed and people were sent home to work. This has a dramatic effect on the look and feel of the Square Mile, one of the busiest districts of London was left deserted with billions of pounds worth of real estate sitting empty. Share

[cl_column width="2/3" css_style="padding-top:0px"][cl_column width="1/3" col_sticky="1"] Architectural Street Photography These images bring together my background as a Street Photographer with my work as an Architectural Photographer in London. Cross pollinating the two approaches produces technically correct architectural scenes that also capture a moment of life. Structures and spaces are brought to life by the presence of a figure in these pictures, a dialogue is created between the buildings and the people passing through the public realm. I have coined the phrase Architectural Street Photography to describe this approach and am excited to develop it in further projects.This gallery takes images from a number of commissions and personal projects that share the architectural street photography approach that I think is particularly useful for architects and developers.