Biography
My work is in photography and writing. I completed a practice-led PhD in Fine Art (Photography, Writing) at the Royal College of Art, 2020, which explored the figure of the witness. I also have an MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (Distinction) from the University of the Arts London, an MA in English Literature (First Class Hons) from the University of Edinburgh, and an FdA in Photography from the Arts University Bournemouth.
I am a Lecturer at Southampton Solent University, where I teach on BA Photography. And I'm also Visiting Lecturer at the University of Westminster, where I teach on BA Creative Media Arts and BA Photography.
I contributed to The Guardian and Geographical on environmental themes including green colonialism, I've also been published by the Art Writing Guild, performed my writing at several venues including The Whitechapel Gallery, was commissioned to write a poem for an international drinks company, made a short film for Copy Press, which was featured in the mini-film festival Glimmers in the Dark in 2025, and I've also made a programme on photographing my mum for BBC Radio 4, with Loftus Media, which made Radio 4's Pick of the Week.
My photographic work has featured in The Times Magazine, Geographical, BBC, Radio Times, The Telegraph Magazine on ecological themes, and Index on Censorship on the racialisation of religion.
Previously, I worked as a Picture Researcher at Taschen Books America on several books, including London: A Portrait of a City, The Rolling Stones, and Her Majesty The Queen, and Picture Researcher at The Telegraph Magazine; Technical Editor at Photography Monthly (Archant Media), and Staff Writer at The British Journal of Photography, where I was most proud of helping transition the title to a monthly magazine, and, among many other feature articles and interviews, writing a feature on artists who collaborate. I was commissioned by The Telegraph Magazine to cover Paolo Pellegrini's photographs of children in the Gaza strip; and my reviews have appeared in Photomonitor, Flash Art, Photo District News.