Photographer | Filmmaker | Writer | Researcher

Based in the Scottish Highlands and working across Scotland and the UK.

I am a photographer and filmmaker working across commissioned and independent creative practice. My work is grounded in storytelling, observation and an interest in people and place — from commercial, cultural and third-sector commissions to longer-term photographic and research-led projects.

Photography + Filmmaking

I work with organisations, businesses, artists and creative practitioners to produce photography and film for communications, campaigns, editorial, reporting and digital platforms.

My commissioned photography spans events and PR, people and portraiture, live performance, project and impact photography, and product and lifestyle work. Across these different settings, I favour a natural, observational approach, creating imagery that captures atmosphere, character and context while responding clearly to the needs of each commission.

As a filmmaker, I create project films and documentaries, using interviews, observational footage and narrative storytelling to communicate experiences, ideas and impact. I work particularly closely with arts, cultural, community and third-sector organisations.

Alongside my visual work, I undertake freelance research and ethnographic projects using interviews, fieldwork, photography and film to explore lived experience and place.

Creative Projects

My creative practice explores landscape, place and environmental change through photography, moving image and writing.

Walking, observation and fieldwork are central to this work. Drawing on documentary, ethnographic and autoethnographic approaches, I am interested in how landscapes are experienced and remembered, and how environmental and social change becomes visible through everyday places and lives.

Projects including Assemblage, Unseasonably Warm and English Pastoral combine documentary observation with experimental approaches to image and text. My work has been exhibited across Scotland and the UK, including at the Saatchi Gallery as part of the Royal Photographic Society's International Photography Exhibition 167.

Alongside my visual practice, I write poetry and prose, with work published in literary journals and magazines.

CV

  • I have a BA (Hons) in Politics from the University of Sheffield, an MA in Modern and Contemporary Literature from Birkbeck, University of London, and a PhD in English from Birkbeck, where the focus of my thesis was dialogic intertextuality and unconscious collaboration in the novels of Siri Hustvedt and Paul Auster.

    More recently I was awarded a scholarship by the Centre for Living Sustainability at the University of the Highlands and Islands to undertake a MRes exploring the emotional impact of climate change on communities connected to the Scottish skiing industry. This research blended ethnographic methods with creative autoethnography, integrating documentary photography, photo-elicitation techniques, and experimental writing.

  • Year of Coasts and Waters (Portraits), Nairn Community and Arts Centre, November 2021.

    Unexpected Gardens (Portraits), Findhorn Bay Festival 2022.

    Unseasonably Warm, FLOW Photofest Wall, Eden Court, March 2024 | Highland Print Studio, June 2024.

    Ambient - Selected Works, Nairn Community and Arts Centre, November 2024.

    Assemblage, Arts in Moray Showcase, Moray Arts Centre, April 2025.

    Royal Photographic Society International Photography Exhibition 167, Saatchi Gallery, August - September 2026.

    Snowroads, Snowlessness and Snowstalgia, University of the Highlands and Islands (forthcoming).

  • We Have Questions #2, September 2024 - www.wehavequestions.online/whq2.

    Arts in Moray / The Moray Way Association, November 2024 - March 2025.