September Song

These portraits form part of a larger sequence taken between September 2009 and January 2010 between diagnosis of my mother’s ovarian cancer and her death at the age of 66. The series includes images of the interior of her house and landscapes reflecting the mood and turn of the year.

I compiled the original sequence of 50 images when I was invited to talk for The Loving Gaze Symposium, at The Women’s Library, London, for PhotoMonth. This work was included in the Arles Voies Off 2011 Photography Festival, France. You can preview the complete book at: www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/1789457

10 to 11 – a Photographic Study of Growing Up

I have made a series of portraits of children as they move away from primary school. They are about to leave the naïve and secret world of early childhood for something altogether tougher and more challenging. Their faces are just beginning to lengthen and harden. This series records children on the threshold of a revelation, and the photograph acts as a prediction. I have photographed my son throughout his life and, as he has moved through nursery, primary, and now secondary school, I have also photographed his friends and classmates. The accompanying book includes photos of many of these children from a young age, returning to them as they reach this age of transition. Exhibited at the V&A Museum of Childhood, London 2010. Book available at: www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1607009.

Doris is one life in one house in Britain. A book, 38.5cm x 29cm, containing 22 full-page colour close-up photographs of the wallpapers and textiles found in the house. Family album photographs from Doris’ own archives are included along with texts by neighbours who knew Doris.

Included in The Sitting Room: An Exhibition of Artists’ Books, curated by Tom Sowden and Lucy May Schofield. This was a touring exhibition to Manchester, Bristol, Cambridge, Brighton, Mexico and the US.

Doris (prints and book) were included in a one day ‘image and text’ symposium at London Metropolitan University, 2009. Book available at: www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1363199.

Red Dust, South India

Child labour pulls the iron ore out of the hillside by hand. The ore is destined for the steel mills of China to feed the seemingly insatiable appetite of the Olympic construction project. You can preview the complete book at www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2263827.

Vallée de Merveilles

An ongoing series charting rural life in this Site of Special Scientific Interest, a corner of the Alps inhabited for just three months of the year by Pascal, the shepherd, who keeps the wolves at bay long enough for his goats and sheep to graze and for him to produce his renowned cheese.