I choose backgrounds against which I can display separated figures, distributing or choreographing them across the frame. The architecture is incidental to a scene or situation that may or may not evolve within it.I tend to look for sites or places where people pass through without congregating. I wait for figures to create a spatial and enigmatic dialogue.The figures often take on the look of stressed automatons acting out prescribed scenes.At a time when it’s becoming harder to discern what is human and what isn’t, their isolation from each other serves to emphasize a machine-like formality.
Born Dundee, Scotland.
Formerly, architectural and sometime press photographer.
Latterly, small business owner and street photographer.
Awards 2016
Finalist, LensCulture Street Photography Awards.
2017
Finalist, Best Series, Streetfoto, San Francisco.
PDN 7th annual Exposure Award winner.
Juror’s Pick, LensCulture Street Photography Awards.
Series Winner, PHoS Athens.
Finalist, Miami Street Photography Festival.
2nd Place Winner, Chromatic Photo Awards.
2018
Finalist, Italian Street Photography Festival, Rome.
Projection, Voies Off Festival, Arles.
Dom Literatury, Lodz, Poland (Urban Photo Awards).
LensCulture Network Gallery.
Finalist, Second Prize, Independent Street Photography Awards.
3rd place, Bronze Star Award, Neutral Density Awards (Street photography).
Winning image (FenchurchBuildings161018), Street Life, Life Framer.
3 Honorable mentions, Chromatic Photo Awards.
2019
ESPY photography award exhibition, Elysium Gallery, Swansea.
Honorable mention, (OneShot) International Photography Awards.
Winner, Best Series, Streetfoto’19, San Francisco.
Series winner, Street Photography category (non-pro), 13th Pollux Awards.
Honourable mention, Street Photography category, Minimalist Photography Awards.
Series Finalist, Aussie Street 2019 International Street Photography Competition, Sydney.
Category winner, Neutral Density Awards (Street photography).
Fotonostrum Gallery, Barcelona (13th Pollux Awards).
Vernissage, The 2019 Independent Photographer Awards Exhibition, Alalimon Galleria Barcelona, CLB Berlin.
3rd Place Winner, Chromatic Photo Awards.
Honourable mention, 2019 Exibart Street Photography Competition.
Honourable mention, Annual Photography Awards, Street category.
2020
Series Finalist, Bangkok Street Photography Festival
Gold award, San Francisco Bay International Photography Awards
Member, iN-PUBLiC
Portfolio Award, San Francisco Bay International Photography Awards
Honourable mention, Street Photography category, Minimalist Photography Awards
Featured in “The Square Mile” iN-PUBLiC Online Exhibition
International Exhibition 2020, Glasgow Gallery of Photography
