On the page
Six years of tearsheets
A selection of the print work. Every frame on these pages was shot on a commission and filed the same night.
Commissioned
Stories that ran long
The pieces I was sent out to make rather than turn up and cover.
The last hour of Bramble Fields
A photo essay on the closing set of a thirty-thousand-capacity field, shot entirely from behind the barrier looking back. Six pages, no captions, and the only piece I have ever been given a whole spread for.
Brass in the back room
Eight weeks following a twelve-piece around rooms that could barely hold them. Ran across four pages with a thousand words I did not write and would not have written as well.
What the drummer sees
A cover story shot entirely from behind the kit across nine different bands, on the argument that the most interesting view of a gig belongs to the person facing the wrong way.
Support act
Twenty openers photographed on the same tour, in the same twenty-minute slot, in twenty different rooms. A study in what a first band gets given and what they do with it.
Elsewhere
Awards, hangs and mentions
An archive is only worth what you can find in it at four in the afternoon on a deadline. Mine is captioned to the song.
Need a frame from the archive?
Thirteen years, six hundred nights, all captioned by act, venue and date. Tell me who and when and I will send you a contact sheet the same day, with the licence terms on it.