I am a 22-year-old student in my third year at the University of Chester, currently studying Ba(Hons) Photography. For as long as I can remember I have studied many different forms of art such as Fine Art, Graphic Art, Design and Technology and Music but my fascination with photography began when I discovered it on an academic level during college. I was gifted my first camera around the age of 14 or 15 and some of the images I took on that are still selling in local tourist shops back in my hometown of Conwy, North Wales.

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I began, at 15, by taking landscape images of the North West coast which, with an artist’s mind, was my favourite thing to do at the time because I could finally capture these picturesque landscapes the way I wanted to. A year later I bought my first DSLR when I began college and the rest is history. I have since, worked with numerous people such as the children’s book author Heather Dyer and the Conwy Camera Club and had a book published.

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It was at college that I began using film for the first time and I haven’t really stopped since. I now work first and foremost as a documentary photographer with both black and white and colour 35mm film but occasionally experiment with 120mm, cross processing and cyanotypes. Alongside my studies during university, I have been working to collect vintage cameras and photography books surrounding the history and the theory of the subject, to create something of a home library full of people like Bill Brandt, Robert Frank and Roland Barthes who have all influenced much of my own practice in the past.

 

My work is unique because aims to challenge the way we view the average everyday scene on the street and question the way we look at even the simplest of things in an image. It follows themes of vernacular and archival photography through experiments with film while exploring how we can create images today, that look as though they were taken straight from a 1950's archive. My work aims to prove the consistent relevance of film in today's world of ever-evolving technology, social media and readily available cameras within our smartphones. It almost feels today as though we take more images per day than we blink! What is it about all of these passable images we take, that connects us to them, that makes us take them in the first place? Why is it that in photographs of people and places we don't even know, there is something that still draws us in?