In my first year of living in London, I found myself on a rather ambitious quest: to figure out how one might actually make a living with a camera. Simple in theory. Less so in practice. Looking back, my confidence may have bordered on the heroic or the downright hubristic. I truly believed, with the kind of stubborn optimism only a slightly broke creative can possess, that I could solely make a living from my art. Everyone else, of course, disagreed. Friends, family, acquain

Couldn't get her to look up In 2022, Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her Platinum Jubilee — that’s seventy years on the throne, in case you’d missed the bunting. The whole country was treated to a four-day bank holiday (cheers, Your Majesty) from Thursday 2nd to Sunday 5th June. At the time, I was based in London, still busy with interiors but sneaking into other areas of photography whenever I could. And really, when history comes parading down your street, how could I not gra

When the pandemic hit in 2020 during my animation degree my neatly planned career path collapsed faster than a badly assembled IKEA wardrobe. One week I was forging ahead with my final year project ready to dive into professional life; the next I was a graduate with no graduate showreel, no film day to introduce us to industry and no aid from the government. Like so many of us at the time I had a choice: keep slogging away at the few opportunities left, or hit the reset butto