This blog/newsletter is for artists. For storytellers. For lateral thinkers. For multi-hyphenates. For chaos goblins. For the square pegs. For those who refuse to follow a trodden path. Those who feel everything so, so deeply. For those who are still working things out.
Expect weekly-ish journeys down various rabbit holes straight into your inbox, with selected essays published here.
A couple of years ago I had an idea for a project about river Mole. The idea was to photograph various parts of the river, walking from it's source to where it joins river Thames at Hampton Court, not far from my home. Not super original (Yan Wang Preston's Mother River and Chloe Dewe...
…if you knew it was the last time?
I had a bit of a flirtation with AI early on. It was fun and exciting to play with it and see if I could push the limits of what I myself could do. I was inspired by Jonas Peterson - a photographer and an early Midjourney adopter who seemingly mastered the art of AI (and made a shit ton...
A very practical nitty-gritty post.
Six things I learned from two years of photographing the same boring place.
TL;DR: You can order Beauty Hunting here. The majority (56 percent) of all Kickstarter projects fail. So it really should have come as no surprise when the Kickstarter to publish my debut photography book Beauty Hunting failed last summer. I only managed to raise 32 percent of the money I...
‘Tis the season for looking back at the year past - and planning for the year to come. For me, it includes considering which projects I want to start showing to people at portfolio reviews, to get important feedback and also to get myself and my work in front of decision-makers in the photography...
It’s has been an interesting few months. I’ve got more rejections that ever - and for someone who struggles with rejection sensitivity this can be super tough. I have to remind myself that it means I’ve put myself forward to more opportunities to get my work seen, and it will eventually pay off. I...
This week, I launched the Kickstarter to print my first ever photography book, Beauty Hunting. Despite it’s apparent simplicity, this book has been three years in the making - but it didn’t start out as a book at all. Work in Progress with Antonina Mamzenko is a reader-supported publication....