A busy two weeks working at the Nottingham Playhouse on a new production of Dear Evan Hansen. Rather than video projection we were using extensive LED stage panels to display content. So as well as imagery to reflect the narrative we were also involved with the more practical lighting of the stage by creating 3d stage structures that appeared to be lit from behind. Lots of work but also managed a couple runs to explore the area. As well as creating content in Blender and After Effects we used a drone to create photogrammetry of orchards (animated in Cloudcompare).
Object photography at Culture House
Located in Shephard’s Bush, London W12 Culture House asked me to photograph their extensive collections of Somali culture over a number of days. They have some great artefacts and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting & working with the curators.
Venice Biennale Danza 2024
My third year involved with the Biennale Danza festival in Venice over a busy 3 weeks. Our job was to create cinematic, multi camera films of the performances. Often in low light, with constant movement and awkward access. These are challenging shoots from a technical point of view. Lots of editing afterwards as well!
School For Scandal at the RSC
A new production of the well known “Comedy of Manners” at The Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford directed by Tinuke Craig. Having filmed the actors prior to tech week we created various video clips for projection using Adobe After Effects. Including a ‘Portait Wall’ of moving paintings that appeared to interact with the live actors.
'Deepstaria' in Montpelier
Myself and colleagues from Italy filmed the contemporary dance piece ‘Deepstaria’ on behalf of Studio Wayne McGregor. A short trip, we had little time to prep’ cameras & establish shooting positions (during a busy festival of dance) that would give us the shots we needed. The results were great however and the final film was very well received by the client. And a beautiful city!
Textile photography at Birmingham Museums Trust
Always challenging to light and ‘stitch’ shoot long, narrow items whilst retaining high resolution. This was the task at Birmingham Museums’ Collection Centre when I was commissioned to photograph their African textile collection. The quality of the Fujifilm GFX100s camera and it’s prime lenses was a real help. And great to work in the huge Midlands Collection Centre again!
Exhibition setup at the Museum of Cannock Chase. Updated from 2008 with new images & video.
A busy week setting up my Littleton Colliery exhibition again. Updated from the original 2008 show to commemorate 30 years since the closure of Littleton. The area has changed a lot since 2008 and so has the community. Littleton Green school now stands where the pit once did and has created a new community to pick up the pieces left by the closure of Littleton Colliery. We interviewed the head of the school for the updated film, and found her to be passionate about teaching Huntington’s industrial past to the children.
See the Guardian article from the original show here: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2008/aug/13/communities.coalmining
Video projections for BLUE at the London Coliseum
The English National Opera’s production of Blue (writer Tazewell Thompson) looks spectacular! A pleasure to work on it and always good to see one’s work projected big! Excellent video design by Ravi Deepres and brilliant rotating wheel created by set designer by Alex Lowde. Ed Freeman did a great job projection mapping everything so that our projections turned at the same time as the wheel.








LIDAR & Photo-scanning in Harlem, New York for BLUE
A short but very productive few days in Harlem creating content for the opera Blue. Especially good as we got to meet and chat with it’s creator, the writer Tazewell Thompson.












Community consultation - Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
I have worked on a number community focused projects based out of Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery over the years. These range from community consultation sessions to family open days, writers groups and disability projects. All of which require documentation for funding & marketing purposes




















Filming for Maddaddam in Canada
It was a pleasure to spend much of 2022 working on Wayne McGregor’s production “Maddaddam” with video designer Ravi Deepres. I got to visit some great locations around Canada. We used a lot of techniques: Stills, Video, Timelapse, Drone, 3D modelling, LIDAR and Photogrammetry. A few highlights below…







A Place To Call Home - University of Birmingham
In late 2022 I was approached to take photographs for a University of Birmingham exhibition exploring aspects of Home. It was a great project and opportunity to meet & photograph folk with very different experiences including homelessness, involuntary migration and social issues.
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/the-exchange/exhibitions/a-place-to-call-home
…from the University website:
“About A Place To Home
In our recent interactive exhibition, Making Home, we invited you to respond to questions about home and homelessness. You told us that home is more than a physical place and that it can summon up strong emotions. Explore what we discovered about what home means to all of us in our follow up exhibition, A Place to Call Home.
We invite you to see homelessness, adult social care and displacement through the eyes of people who have lived experience, in a new exhibition that shares the University of Birmingham’s latest research.
Through this photographic exhibition meet people from the present and the past as they share their story”.














Museum of US in Handsworth
“Museum of Us” is an exhibition curated by the residents of Somerset Road in Handsworth with the direction of curators at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. It was also the basis of a TV project on More 4:
I was asked to photograph and thus document certain aspects of the exhibition, along with some portraits.










Venice Biennale Danza 2022
In July 2022 we were asked to film the shows of the Biennale Danza. The request was fairly last minute and therefore we had to rush to plan, secure equipment and accommodation. Over 10 days, the work was technically challenging as it involved multi-camera shooting in dark theatres with little or no time to get to know the shows. Despite the pressure we all enjoyed the experience and hope to go back next year!









Afterite & LORE at La Scala, Milan.
Having worked on ‘Afterite’ in New York (premiere) and Copenhagen I was asked to go to Milan to help set up the projections at the historic La Scala theatre. ‘Afterite’ was performed as act 1 of a double bill with the new piece ‘LORE’ (also choreographed by Wayne McGregor). I worked with designer Ravi Deepres to create the films for ‘LORE’. The contrast of contemporary dance in such a classical environment was stunning!
https://waynemcgregor.com/productions/afterite
https://waynemcgregor.com/productions/lore/







Video projection at The Old Vic
Having worked with designer Ravi Deepres on the video original design ‘Jitney’ at the Leeds Playhouse it was great to get to adapt the projections for the run of shows at The Old Vic in South London. We worked with some lovely original black and white photographs from the period. Layering up the images using Photoshop and After Effects we were able to create some very effective animations. Fantastically atmospheric theatre and a great show!
https://www.oldvictheatre.com/stage/event/jitney
'It don't always turn out like you think it is. You don't always have the kind of life that you dream about. You know what I mean?'
Jim Becker and his unlicensed drivers take the people of Pittsburgh Hill District where regular taxi cabs won't – healing old wounds and tearing new ones as they pass the time in a condemned taxi rank between pick-ups.
Directed by Tinuke Craig (The Color Purple) and following an acclaimed run at Leeds Playhouse, August Wilson's (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom) groundbreaking modern classic explores the fragile bond between eight men as they live, love and work in a racially segregated, post-Vietnam America.



Shooting in Toronto, Haliburton and Montreal
A rare opportunity to shoot in Canada for a new contemporary dance piece to premiere in Toronto and London (The Royal Ballet and The National Ballet of Canada). We shot video, stills, timelapse and drone imagery. As well as photogrammetry and LIDAR scans. The show will premiere in Toronto November 2022!










The Staffordshire Gold Hoard at The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Hanley
In December 2021 I was lucky enough to photograph some of the Staffordshire Gold Hoard at The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Hanley. Several of the pieces had undergone conservation whilst others had been identified as belonging together, having come from the same item. The aim was to shoot them in their groups, or in their newly cleaned states. The work was managed by Drakon Heritage and Conservation. Incredible objects made with great expertise and quite tricky to photograph as they are shiny and small! So I used plenty of reflectors and a lot of focus stacking to retain depth of focus.
image copyright: ©2021 The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery






Shooting in Cornwall & Devon for "And Breathe..." at the Almeida Theatre, London.
In June 2021 I had a great opportunity to work again with Ravi Deepres. This time on the video design of And Breathe… by Yomi Ṣode. Premiered at The Almeida Theatre in London, the shoots took place largely in Cornwall and Devon over a number of days. With extra shots filmed in Malvern, Cannock Chase and the Lickey Hills. Returning to Cornwall after working in St.Ive’s some years ago was a great experience. A beautiful part of the country! The turnaround on “And Breathe…” was very short so we had to edit the footage quickly, and render the final video projections on-site (including multiple last minute changes). A great show!






Crave at Chichester Festival Theatre
In November/December 2020 I got the chance to work in Chichester with video designer Ravi Deepres. The production was Crave by the late English playwright Sarah Kane. We filmed the actors on green screen and created video sequences for front projection and also were able to integrate four PTZ cameras mounted at the end of the actor’s travelators into our projection. The production was live-streamed as well having a diminished ‘real’ audience (due to Covid 19 restrictions). The production team worked incredibly well together and we formed a sort of ‘committee’ to edit the live camera shots, animation and pre-filmed sequences that formed the live stream, into a cohesive film. This created a much better representation of the production for those watching online. It also proved a great asset when, after only a few days of the run, a new set of lockdown restrictions meant that there could no longer be a live audience. Fortunately the show carried on ‘remotely’ and tickets were sold for the live stream. https://www.cft.org.uk/archive/crave
Cast: Erin Doherty, Alfred Enoch, Wendy Kweh & Jonathan Slinger
Production: director Tinuke Craig, designer Alex Lowde, lighting designer Joshua Pharo, film designer Ravi Deepres and composer Anna Clock, with movement by Jenny Ogilvie.
I also found time to do some interesting runs around Chichester. Including one to The Trundle, an Iron Age hill fort with great views!





