I am a photographer and academic whose practice and research is concerned with landscape representation as a means of investigating the cultural forces which impact the environment. My large format landscape photographs are made during extended walks, which focus on the disregarded, indeterminate and transitory spaces with a recurring focus on post-industrial legacies. My methodology exploits photography’s empirical and suggestive qualities and the inherent tensions between indexicality and allegory in modes of photographic representation.
Over the past 20 years I have exhibited in the United States, Europe and the UK. I published ‘Peregrinus [Bede’s Walk]’ walk in 2020 a publication, which is part map, part photo book that explores parallels between the flâneur and the ancient notion of the pilgrimage as allegorical journey. My work appears in various journals such as Next Level, Der Greif Magazine and recently in the American landscape publication 'Observations in the Ordinary'.
I have 15 years of teaching experience in Higher Education and have taught photography at both undergraduate and graduate levels in England and the United States.
Between 2007 and 2016 I developed a series of projects that explored extended walks, following paths of historical and cultural significance. These projects provided the foundation for a practice-led PhD that investigates the cognitive and intuitive activity of walking as a primary motivation for photographing landscapes. My thesis provides an on-going enquiry into the relationship between the walking, photography and the use of technological navigation tools and maps. This creates a hybrid experience that leads to an embodied experience of place within my practice.
