Social Documentary Network – 10 Years of Pride. Part I
Text from Social Documentary Network’s IN FOCUS: 10 years of pride collection: “Following a month of Pride marches across the globe and the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York,…
Festival Pil’Ours 2019: St Gilles Croix de Vie
Meander down some cobbled streets, washing hanging from shuttered-window to shuttered-window, ponder what to have first – a beer at the café on the corner, or sit on the steps and have…
Radio 4 relives refugees’ experiences
In July, actor Simon Callow will share the experiences of a father and son fleeing persecution. I met and interviewed Matofu and Suphi (names changed) on behalf of Frontline AIDS. They had…
Featured! Shutter Hub Close Up: Not a ‘girly girl’
Shutter Hub has published a Close Up feature on my ongoing project ‘Not a girly girl’, documenting Bea’s life since she became Miss Transgender UK, down in Brighton in November 2017. …
Exhibition: Everything I Ever Learnt
Everything I Ever Learnt opens TODAY at ART at the ARB at the University of Cambridge. This latest Shutter Hub curation “promises to be both aesthetic and arresting,” as described by Velvet Magazine. I’m exhibiting…
The systematic abuse of India’s female opiate users
Women who use drugs are at increased risk from HIV and violence, but as they don’t explicitly feature in India’s official national data, their needs largely go unmet. First published by Frontline…
Daphine’s story: Goodbye stigma
First published by Frontline AIDS. It’s nearly three years since Daphine from Kampala, Uganda shared her story in the film, Love a Positive Life, and she continues to go from strength to strength…
Fearless Females! ShutterHub at Festival Pil’ours, France
Jaimie, Rachel and Agnes are the three fearless women in my photographs showing at Festival Pil’ours this summer (8 Jul- 31 August 2018) , as part of the ShutterHub ‘Because We Can!’ exhibition.…
Beyond the storyboard: why authenticity is key to bringing your film to life
First published by CharityComms. “I want to be a role model,” Daphine tells me when I ask her why she wanted to share her story. “It gives the community another picture about…
Into the Lion’s Den
First featured in Msafiri magazine. Walking in the footsteps of the big five in the Mara Naboisho. My small plane descends towards the airstrip, to delighted, overlapping exclamations, all starting with “I…