Personal/Additional:
- Able
to speak French competently, and currently working to improve my
fluency.
- A winner in the 'Observer/David Hodge Young Photojournalist
of the year’ award 1994.
- Recipient of ‘West Midlands Arts ‘Portfolio
Award’ 1999.
- Recipient of West Midlands Arts/'Seeing the Light' bursary,
2000 and again in 2001.
- PADI scuba diver certified (qualified Australia 2001).
- Presently working on two photographic projects. One portraying
the people and architecture of Birmingham’s Bullring, and Digbeth areas.
This is in conjunction with the local council, and involves the creation of
a photographic archive in Birmingham Central library. Secondly, I am currently
working in collaboration with the Birmingham-based photographer Ravi Deepres,
to create an exhibition with images we shot whilst following the football
supporters during World Cup 2002 in Japan.
- Photographs for 'Tommy Gunn' (2000) a play, and live internet
event exploring football culture. The photographs were incorporated as an
element of the performance. This was commissioned by 'Pitchbend Productions',
Sheffield.
- Photographic work for ‘The British Red Cross’
working alongside a journalist/PR officer in Morecombe 1994.
- Photographer for a sponsored ‘Skill’s Convoy’
which travelled to Romania in 1993 to help convert a disused prison
for use as a home for elderly.
- Involvement (photographic and other work) in the volunteer sector
(UK and abroad) via The British Trust for Conservation Volunteers.
Photographic Exhibitions:
Birmingham:
- ‘Changing Faces’, Midlands Arts Centre, 2002 (Solo).
- ‘Something old, Something new’, Birmingham City Art Gallery
and Museum 2001 (Group).
- ‘Bullring’, The Rotunda, Birmingham 2001 (Solo).
- ‘Rhubarb Rhubarb’, The Rotunda, Birmingham 2001 (Group).
- ‘Rhubarb Rhubarb’, The Orange Studio, Birmingham 2000 (Group).
- (Untitled) St. Paul’s Bar and Restaurant 1999 (Solo).
- ‘West Midland Arts Portfolio Award’, Midlands Arts Centre, 1999
(Group).
Others:
- (Untitled) Bristol Watershed Media Centre 1995 (Group).
- ‘David Hodge Award’ The Photographers Gallery, Central London
1994 (Group).
- ‘The Village’, The Village Bookshop, Central Manchester 1994
(Solo).
- (Untitled), Stockport College 1994 (Group).
Video and Film Projects:
- Gaffer
on 'Follow on' (1999). A 16mm short film with the Northern School
of Film and Television, Leeds.
- Lighting Cameraman on the
documentaries:
- 'Fans
to Finland' 2000, about Ice Sculpting in Lapland
- 'Perilous Times' 1995, a documentary on Street Evangelists in the North
of England
- 'Night
and Day' 1996, a documentary/promotional video for Calton Athletic, a Glaswegian
drug-rehabilitation scheme famous for its football team (which is featured
in the film ‘Trainspotting’)
- 'Funeral Rights' 1995, a video/film documentary on D.I.Y funerals.
I acted
as both Director and Producer on this documentary.