Most of the pictures I want are the ones people walk past.
I'm a self-taught documentary and portrait photographer who takes on commissions and editorial assignments alongside longer-term investigations. I shoot analog, primarily in black and white, though some of my work is in color. I work in this way because it strips a scene back to what matters: light, gesture, the expression on a face. I go back to the same places for years, because the photograph worth having is rarely the obvious one. It's in how a community holds itself together, in the ordinary moment that turns out to be the telling one.
I'm a self-taught documentary and portrait photographer who takes on commissions and editorial assignments alongside longer-term investigations. I shoot analog, primarily in black and white, though some of my work is in color. I work in this way because it strips a scene back to what matters: light, gesture, the expression on a face. I go back to the same places for years, because the photograph worth having is rarely the obvious one. It's in how a community holds itself together, in the ordinary moment that turns out to be the telling one.
Alongside this long-term practice, I've taken on commissions that demanded different skills. For Anti-Slavery International I documented child and bonded labour, and Dalit and other lower-caste communities, including the Siddi, in Karnataka and Gujarat. For Minority Rights Group International I covered atrocities against Dalit communities, particularly women, and their fight for justice and protection, with images published in State of the World's Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2011. These commissions took me to India and The Gambia. Closer to home, I worked with 198 Contemporary Arts and Tate Britain on an oral-history archive. Different countries, the same concern: working-class, minority and persecuted people, and the dignity of ordinary life.
Over three decades, the work has become a record of how a community changes, how cultures merge, how people move through a place, and what holds it together through time.