In October 2021 I spent a month in the remote Gilsfjörður on a residency organised by Latitude for Arts. Wet, wild and utterly beautiful, I spent my days exploring this hidden Icelandic gem and these images are a record of my time there.
Four landscapes of the River Lea Nature Park near my home in Hertfordshire Shot with Infra Red film and the inevitable Holga camera.
In the summer of 2017 I decided to embark on one last adventure cycling through the Tien Shan in Kyrgyzstan on a mountain bike, alone and unsupported along a 1,000 km route that would take me, mainly off road, across some of the remoter valleys and high passes of this Central Asian mountain range.
Tien Shan means Celestial Mountains and the range runs from the western edge of China, through Kyrgyzstan to the Kazakh plains. The range is famous for its jagged mountain peaks, its lush green valleys populated by nomadic herdsmen who move their horses and sheep up to the high pastures in summer time. The Kyrgyz herders spend the summers in round yurts, tending their animals and making kumis, fermented mare’s milk whose taste defies description.
I travelled light, carrying only the bare essentials and used a simple plastic holga to record my journey. As exhilaration merged with a state of exhaustion, I became less aware of the sublime beauty of my surroundings and more focussed on simple details of the landscape. A telegraph pole or eroded mausoleum would hold me in their spell and these are the images I started to capture.
the bright lights of Japan at night.
The West of Scotland.
A series of screen prints taken from photos during my many travels to Mexico, which reflect the vibrancy and colour of Mexican culture.
