Visual Documentarian | Creative Practitioner | Photographer | Filmmaker | Writer | Researcher.
Based in Scotland and working across the UK.
Visual Documentarian
As a visual documentarian, I provide photography and videography services centred on thoughtful visual documentation and atmosphere-led storytelling.
Working across commercial, community and third sector projects, live performance, and lifestyle, food, and hospitality settings, I create authentic, people-focused imagery and film that captures movement, process, and place as they naturally unfold.
I collaborate with commercial, public, and third-sector organisations to develop high impact and thoughtful visual narratives about people, place, and landscape. My approach is grounded in sustained observation and sensitivity to context, producing work that communicates lived experience with clarity and depth.
Whether documenting projects over time, producing performance visuals, or creating promotional content for brands and venues, my work is discreet, responsive, and designed to support marketing, communications, and audience engagement across print and digital platforms.
Alongside these commercial projects, I also work as a freelance researcher and ethnographer, using field-based photography, filmmaking, and interview techniques to gather qualitative material that supports impact reporting and place-based research. My methodology combines documentary attentiveness with narrative awareness, ensuring that visual outputs are both rigorous and emotionally resonant.
Creative Practice
My creative practice centres on landscape, place and lived experience, explored through documentary photography and experimental moving image. Through slow, embodied engagement with environment, I attend to rhythm, atmosphere and subtle shifts in landscape and light.
Walking is both method and framework within my practice, drawing on psychogeographic and ethnographic traditions that understand movement through space as a way of generating knowledge. Projects such as Assemblage, Unseasonably Warm and English Pastoral respond to peripheral, weather-shaped geographies, combining documentary observation with experimental form. The work positions walking, observation and image-making as intertwined processes, using landscape as a site through which memory, labour and environmental change are felt and interpreted.
This creative work engages with ethnographic and autoethnographic methods, integrating observational photography, moving image, text, and material experimentation. Alongside visual practice, I write poetry and prose; my poems have appeared in Aesthetica, Aspidistra, Dream Catcher, Magma, Orbis and South Bank Poetry; longform prose has been published by Hinterland, MIR Online and Acid Bath Publishing. Laughing Stock, an autofictional memoir, is my first book.
Academia
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.
Affiliations
Member: Visual Arts Scotland, Scotland Contemporary Arts Network, Royal Photographic Society
Board member: Vivid Roots Collective
Marketing and communications lead: Dance North Scotland
Former chair of Nairn Book and Arts Festival
Selected Exhibitions
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.
Snowroads, Snowlessness and Snowstalgia, University of the Highlands and Islands (forthcoming).
Residencies
We Have Questions #2, September 2024 - www.wehavequestions.online/whq2.
Arts in Moray / The Moray Way Association, November 2024 - March 2025.
