Selected Works
Stronger Together
Commissioned by Derbyshire LGBT+. 2025
This project, commissioned by Derbyshire LGBT+ Centre, celebrates the LGBTQ+ people who shape life in North East Derbyshire. All the portraits were made inside the Chesterfield LGBT+ Centre itself, allowing the building to become part of the story, acting as a reminder of how important these spaces are for creating safety, belonging and the freedom to be yourself.
The portraits were created during relaxed drop-in sessions, giving people the chance to be seen just as they are. The full project, which includes stories and portraits from 30 people. I am in talks about having this work on display at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire.
Story of You
What happens when two strangers meet? Do they share common ground? What stories unfold?
More than a photography project, Story of You is an invitation to connect. How much can two strangers truly share? Can a single conversation spark something deeper? Through storytelling, this project challenges us to find connections in unexpected places.
Can we build a community from people who have only just met?
Ithra Cultural Centre, Saudi Arabia. 2024
Watch the project idea.
Participants were free to take their portraits home with them.
Picturing Pride
At Scarborough Pride, in September 2024, attendees were invited to step into a specially constructed corner to have their portraits taken.
This space allowed individuals to celebrate their identity freely and authentically, without and outside pressure. The exhibition presented their portraits as a community all within one room, to celebrate LGBTQIA+ History Month 2025.
Scarborough Art Gallery, Feb-May 2025
Alison Hume mentioning exhibition in the House of Commons.
Masculinity Photographic Study (Ongoing)
In early summer 2025, I began looking into masculinity within Sheffield’s traditional landscapes. Much of what I found in archives and libraries was rich in detail yet oddly hollow: accounts about steelworkers rather than from them. Their experiences had been summarised, interpreted, or carefully folded into broader narratives about industry, class and decline.
This work led me to the Firth Park Working Men’s Club. A club that was created in Wood by the local steelworkers. Today, its red brick walls and large space represent a glimpse not just into the past, but a glimpse into the future.
One evening, while standing at the bar with David and his wife, Jean (Photographed above), two men walked in with the loose confidence of people who had already been drinking elsewhere. They didn’t pause to take in the room. They moved straight towards the pool table with a kind of unspoken resolve.
What followed was not the casual pub game it first appeared to be. Ross shrugged off his coat, picked up a cue and began chalking it with the focus of someone returning to an old rivalry.
“I need to win this one,” he said — half a joke, half a confession.
“Dean used to batter me every time.”
They were very cautious of me at first, but after we shared some laughs, they told me they hadn’t seen each other in 15 years.
This was so much more than a game of pool.
This research is still ongoing and developing.