Storyteller in Residence / Suffolk Libraries
ILLUMINATING PORTRAITS // 2024-5
A year-long photographic and storytelling residency exploring the restorative power of Lowestoft's coastal landscape.
Rooted in a reverence for place, I developed six deeply personal stories and produced hundreds of original photographs, exploring how the coast offers strength, comfort, artistic inspiration and belonging.
I led the photographic and visual direction of the exhibition, from shooting and image selection to print production and installation, including a monumental landscape photograph filling an entire wall of the beach hut at First Light Festival.
The exhibition attracted over 200 visitors during the summer solstice celebrations and hundreds more throughout late summer and autumn. Accompanied by an audio piece, it subsequently toured to Lowestoft Library and other venues.
The work remains accessible through an online portal and forms part of the Lowestoft 50 digital archive, creating a lasting cultural record for future generations.
Commissioned by Suffolk Community Libraries · Supported by Suffolk County Council · In partnership with First Light Festival
PHOTOGRAPHY / CULTURAL RESEARCH / CREATIVE DIRECTION / STORYTELLING / AUDIO / PUBLIC EXHIBITION / COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT / DIGITAL ARCHIVE
Cultural Cartography
The Other Map
I'm a photographer, writer and creative practitioner fascinated by people, places and the stories they tell, whether they mean to or not.
I’m fascinated by the ways places collect meaning. The lives that have unfolded there, the dreams people have carried through it, the memories they've left behind and the thousand different versions of somewhere that exist in people's hearts and minds. To me, there's another map laid over the familiar one, a living geography that can't be measured in miles or coordinates.
My work traces that cultural geography, but I'm just as interested in changing how we experience it. Through photography, writing, research and creative direction, I explore, interpret and reframe the identities of places, finding fresh ways to communicate their character and challenge familiar perceptions.
I conceive, develop and deliver original creative projects, from large-scale public installations and exhibitions to editorial commissions, participatory work and place-based campaigns.
I'm particularly interested in the things that don't make it onto the postcards.
Lead Artist & Creative Facilitator / Felixstowe Academy
THE ANTI-SELFIE // 2025
A playful photographic investigation into identity, asking whether the most revealing portrait of a person might be one that doesn't show their face at all.
I conceived and led workshops exploring how the landscapes we love, the people we admire and the objects we treasure can reveal more about us than our appearance. From celebrities and Labubus to familiar places and everyday objects, young people created photographic self-portraits without ever showing their faces.
Participants then arranged their images into comic-strip-style narratives, creating something closer to miniature films than traditional written stories. The approach proved particularly engaging for young people who struggled to connect with the written word, giving them the freedom to become imaginative, enthusiastic storytellers through photography.
Commissioned by Level Two Youth Project · Supported by East Suffolk Council
CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT / PARTICIPATORY PHOTOGRAPHY / CREATIVE FACILITATION / YOUTH ENGAGEMENT / VISUAL LITERACY / SEQUENTIAL STORYTELLING / IDENTITY
Creative Director & Storyteller / In Development
THE OTHER ALTER // 2026-7
An investigation into an enormous Ice Age boulder beneath Pakefield Church, surrounded by centuries of rumours of pagan worship, sacrifice and superstition.
I've conceived a youth-led creative project inviting local young people to investigate the stone's mysterious past through archival research, photography, writing and illustration, exploring where history meets folklore and how stories become embedded in a landscape.
The project will culminate in an illustrated folklore zine and a lantern-lit storytelling walk through Pakefield for First Light Festival 2027, bringing these strange stories back into the landscape that inspired them.
Funding tbc
CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT / CREATIVE DIRECTION / CULTURAL RESEARCH / FOLKLORE / YOUTH ENGAGEMENT / HERITAGE INTERPRETATION / PHOTOGRAPHY / PUBLICATION / SITE-SPECIFIC STORYTELLING
Destination Photography / East Suffolk Council
IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT// 2025
Selected to create a new body of destination photography for Celebrate East Suffolk, a tourism initiative supported by the Sizewell C Tourism Fund.
Over several days in Framlingham and Wickham Market, I explored the character of each place through its light, colour, warmth and movement, photographing everything from lively streets and independent businesses to architecture and the quieter details of everyday life.
The resulting collection offers a fresh, inviting portrait of both destinations. My photographs now sit within the Celebrate East Suffolk Media Centre, where businesses and tourism organisations can access and use them freely to promote the area, giving the work a life well beyond the original commission.
Commissioned by East Suffolk Council · Supported by the Sizewell C Tourism Fund
DESTINATION PHOTOGRAPHY / CREATIVE DIRECTION / PLACE MARKETING / VISUAL STORYTELLING / TOURISM / DIGITAL IMAGE LIBRARY
Creative Direction & Place Identity / Creative Unlimited
EAST COAST I KNOW YOU SHAKIN’ RIGHT // 2021
A cheeky reimagining of Lowestoft's seaside identity, designed to catch the eye of a new generation of urban visitors.
Drawing on the glamour, graphic design and playful advertising of the 1920s, I conceived and developed an alternative destination campaign aimed at culturally curious, city-dwelling millennials. Through archival research, photography, original copywriting and poster design, I gave Lowestoft's familiar seaside character a fresh, irreverent twist.
The project challenged tired perceptions of the town, exploring how its history, humour and eccentricities could become the very things that make it appealing to a contemporary audience.
Creative Unlimited · Think Lowestoft · Supported by the Suffolk Inclusive Growth Investment Fund
CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT / CREATIVE DIRECTION / PLACE BRANDING / ARCHIVAL RESEARCH / PHOTOGRAPHY / GRAPHIC DESIGN / COPYWRITING / DESTINATION MARKETING
Heritage Research & Photographic Restoration / North Lowestoft Heritage Action Zone
PREVIOUSLY OCCUPIED // 2023
An archival investigation into Lowestoft's historic High Street, bringing more than 160 years of its changing character back into public view.
Working with photographs dating from the 1860s onwards, I pieced together the histories of buildings and businesses through old maps, property boundaries, ghost signs, pub records, photographic techniques and family histories, alongside the wonderfully peculiar memories that rarely make it into official archives.
Through social media, I invited local people into the research, reaching residents who might never ordinarily engage with a heritage project and gathering personal recollections that added fresh detail to the historical record.
I restored and enlarged historic photographs, pairing them with original research and substantial interpretive writing to transform the windows of vacant High Street shops into free, publicly accessible exhibitions. Empty shopfronts became windows into their own past, giving passers-by a chance to discover the people, businesses and everyday lives that had occupied those very buildings.
North Lowestoft Heritage Action Zone × Historic England × East Suffolk Council
ARCHIVAL RESEARCH / SOCIAL HISTORY / PHOTOGRAPHIC RESTORATION / HISTORICAL CARTOGRAPHY / COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT / DIGITAL OUTREACH / HERITAGE INTERPRETATION / PUBLIC EXHIBITION