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Hello friends! It’s been a while, I’m super excited to share with you a very special shoot that I created at the end of last year with lovely Yinsey and Annette. As many of you know it had been a tough summer, I’d broken my ankle right in the very beginning of it, literally 10 weeks prior to this ! After weeks of bedrest I was CRAVING to create and I think that feeling was certainly reflected in the opulence of this shoot!
Last year I was kindly invited once again by the Birmingham Royal Ballet company to photograph the imagery for their upcoming 2019/ 2020 program. The three ballets I got to create for were - Swan Lake, Giselle, and Don Quixote.
It was an absolute pleasure working with the BRB team again and to work with a company that celebrates diversity. Thank you BRB team for inspiring us all!
Recently, the loud conversations on race have shined a light on our society’s unequal treatment of BIPOC and POC , damaging policies, prejudiced judgments, and a deeply-embedded systemic racism. Despite their existence on a global scale, sometimes society fails in acknowledging, let alone confronting, this unjust state of affairs. .
Recognizing these issues has inspired me to listen to voices aside from my own, to learn things I never knew, to actively support others whenever I can, and to truly recognise my privilege and ask myself, “how I can be an ally for a better world?”
A couple of years ago, while wandering through Pinterest I came across the beautiful goddess paintings of chinese artist, Zeng Hao Dun Huang. Drawn to the beauty, personality, and evocative flow that he captured in his subjects, I’ve wanted to create a piece of work inspired by the feeling that his pieces evoked in me.
The headpiece we used here is by Ivy Design and from the moment I received it I knew this picture had to come to life! ….
On this day I had the pleasure of working with Emma Cargill. I came across Emma on Instagram and really liked her vibe. I reached out to her and this was our first shoot together. It’s always important to me that I connect with my model as it’s this connection that leads to something precious being born from our shared collaboration…
This shoot follows from my previous blogpost, we pick up this story soon after that.
We’re still in the Secret Garden and the sun’s about to set. There’s a chill in the air and I find myself itching to capture something as the light shifts from warm yellows to cool twilight blues. It’s my favourite time of day…
Last year I had the most incredible opportunity presented to me. SmugMug, a company that I’m a huge fan of and one that I’ve been supported by since almost the beginning of my journey asked me if they could make a film about me where I give an insight into my craft, from inspiration to approaching and executing a shoot.
This is something I’ve never really done. Sure I’ve made some behind the scenes videos but I’ve never really shared where the art comes from and what drives it still. So of course I said yes! …
On the last day of June 2018, on an usually hot British summer’s day, I tied the knot with one of the steady constants in my life since we first met, my best friend, Pratik Naik. Our love story started when we first met in a rather unromantic location back in 2013. Since then our journey together has been full of so much joy and fun that I can’t help but wonder at the magic of our first meeting…
Exactly one month ago I created this picture at The Creative Experience where Pratik and I, along with our good friends Andrea and Amanda Belluso, and Viktor Anderson hosted an incredible 5 days full of photography, creativity and business conversations, and self empowerment. Yes it was awesome and I’ll go into what the Creative Experience was about later in this post but let’s take a moment to talk about this picture. It’s one of my favourites as it’s created outside of my comfort zone. Exactly where you want to be as an artist :) …
Last year I had the wonderful opportunity of working with the team over at Royal Birmingham Ballet to produce imagery for four of their productions. The shoots ranged from studio setups to shooting on locations that included a historic shopping centre and an incredible 900 year old home...
I forgot how wonderful it is to create out of the comfort zone. Pushing boundaries of self, and having no expectations only to blow past the ghosts of them.
Shooting in a controlled setting was never on my radar. While others learnt in classes, understanding the foundations of lighting and composition, my growth took place in my neighbours gardens, in the woods, in summer blue lakes, in bushes against the roadside. What can I say, the countryside offers a thousand options and the soft diffused light of English cloudy days was the only lighting I strove to master…
