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Little Nova

This beautiful little girl has just had her first birthday, and to celebrate her mother, a good friend of mine wanted to make it as memorable as possible. This is my first time with a model as young as Nova […]

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Surrealist Portraiture

Recently I have been experimenting with portraiture and various darkroom processes as well as Photoshop, the darkroom images didn’t turn out as planned the background was all splotchy, possibly due to the type of paper I was using and it […]

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Under the Sea

Another fabulous shoot from Ellie’s final coursework piece. The garment is so wonderfully detailed and just so beautiful. We used more colour filters this time to fully emphasise all of the different colours within the skirt and bodice. I loved […]

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Mermaid Magic

These images are from a photo shoot that I helped with for my friend, Ellie’s textiles project. She made this amazing body suit all by hand! We put coloured filters over the lights to help with the underwater theme. We […]

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More Portraiture

I am currently doing a project for college called The Everyday and the Extraordinary and I decided to explore portraiture more. However, I didn’t want to just do some head shots, so I tried to play around with different colour […]

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Portraiture

This was a small project on experimenting with studio portraiture. In which I look inspiration from Irving Penn, who has photographed people of the likes of Johnny Depp, Robin Williams, Philip Seymour Hoffman and many more. Model Credit: Heather Mager, […]

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Tell Me a Story

A project exploring “Non-real” photography, I chose to explore the subject of Mental Health and the following images are a representation of what it is like living with a mental illness.

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