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May ’21 News

Hello and welcome to my May newsletter. Firstly I want to share a couple of shoots with you from the past few months. Here is one of the spreads from my photoshoot with Siobhan Murphy for OK magazine. Siobhan was a finalist in the BBC's Interior Design Masters and her use of colour and pattern really blew everyone away.

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March ’21 news

Hello everyone - I hope you are all keeping well and managing through this very long lock-down.  This time my newsletter is concentrating on one commercial photoshoot from back in February 2020 when very few of us were even aware of Covid.

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December 20 News

Hello, I hope you are all safe and well and have survived lockdown number 2.  I had a very quiet start to November with two weeks of virtually no work and then a flurry of jobs in the second half.  I wonder how December will pan out for all of us!

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October 20 News

Hello everyone and welcome to my Autumn newsletter which jumps back to July and August 19.  I had the pleasure of meeting Alex and his parents Lisa and Adam over in Manchester.  The shoot, for Good Housekeeping Magazine was about Alex's transgender journey and the wider family dynamics. 

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August 20 News

Since June my work seems to have got back up to about half speed and I'm hoping things continue to improve.  I've been doing the vast majority of my jobs in the great outdoors where I have either been avoiding downpours or nearly passing out from the heat!

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June 20 News

Hello everyone, I hope you are well and coping with all the challenges.  Like almost all photographers and many self employed professions, my work dried up just before lockdown.  I took on the new role of homeschooling my two children, caught up on all my admin and tried to stay sane. 

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March 20 News

Welcome to my Spring 2020 newsletter. This time last year I decided to treat myself to a day of play with Walter's Wardrobe. The organiser of Walter's Wardrobe pulls together a theme, a venue, four models, makeup artists and styling. As a photographer you just arrive and let yourself be inspired.

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January 20 News

I met Joe Turner at the Co-op head office in Manchester to photograph the '10 minutes with' feature for the Food magazine. Of course these features take about 2 hour's rather than 10 minutes to shoot. Joe was lovely and patient, allowing me to shoot several different options, so the picture editor had plenty of choice.

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