Statement

As a street photographer, I take an observational view of how our present circumstances govern our behaviour individually and in crowds. Progressively, we appear to interact with each other only on a synthetic basis. We attempt to mass connect with the aid of modern technology, but in so doing pay less attention to individual connection. I think this is compounded by the increasingly designed environment we inhabit. The codes we see, hear and read within it impact upon our behavioural processes and ultimately isolate us.

In developing scenes, I try to choose architectural backgrounds against which I can display separated figures, distributing or choreographing them across the frame. The architecture becomes incidental to a scene or situation that may or may not evolve within it. I tend to look for sites or places where people pass through without congregating. To begin with, if there is one figure or two or more figures who are positioned apart, I’ll wait until they’re joined by others in the hope that they’ll create a spatial and enigmatic dialogue. The figures often take on the look of stressed automatons acting out prescribed scenes. At a time when it’s becoming harder to discern what is human and what isn’t, their isolation from each other serves to emphasize an unreal and machine-like formality. These isolated figures don’t have to be interesting in themselves, so long as they create a narrative tension with others. It’s important that there is an element of movement from the figures. Everything must appear to be changing and in flux at the same time as retaining a spatial integrity. In an age wracked with anxiety and uncertainty, there is still a challenge to inject a boisterous creativity into a streetscape of robotic conformity.

BIOGRAPHY

Born Dundee, Scotland.

2016

Finalist, LensCulture Street Photography Awards

2017

Finalist, Best Series, Streetfoto’17, San Francisco
PDN 7th annual Exposure Award winner
Juror’s Pick, LensCulture Street Photography Awards
Series Winner, PHoS Athens
Finalist, Miami Street Photography Festival
2nd Place Winner, Chromatic Photo Awards

2018

Finalist, Italian Street Photography Festival, Rome
Projection, Voies Off Festival, Arles
Dom Literatury, Lodz, Poland (Urban Photo Awards)
LensCulture Network Gallery
3rd place, Bronze Star Award, Neutral Density Awards (Street photography)
Finalist, Second Prize, Independent Street Photography Awards
Winning image (FenchurchBuildings161018), Street Life, Life Framer
3 Honorable mentions, Chromatic Photo Awards

2019

ESPY photography award exhibition, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
Honorable mention, (OneShot) International Photography Awards
Winner, Best Series, Streetfoto’19, San Francisco
Series winner, Street Photography category (non-pro), 13th Pollux Awards
Honourable mention, Street Photography category, Minimalist Photography Awards
Series Finalist, Aussie Street 2019 International Street Photography Competition, Sydney
Category winner, Neutral Density Awards (Street photography)
Fotonostrum Gallery, Barcelona (13th Pollux Awards)
Vernissage, The 2019 Independent Photographer Awards Exhibition, Alalimon Galleria Barcelona, CLB Berlin
3rd Place Winner, Chromatic Photo Awards
Honourable mention, 2019 Exibart Street Photography Competition
Honourable mention, Annual Photography Awards, Street category

2020

Series Finalist, Bangkok Street Photography Festival
Gold award, San Francisco Bay International Photography Awards
Member, iN-PUBLiC
Portfolio Award, San Francisco Bay International Photography Awards
Honourable mention, Street Photography category, Minimalist Photography Awards
Featured in “The Square Mile” iN-PUBLiC Online Exhibition
International Exhibition 2020, Glasgow Gallery of Photography
Jurors’ Pick, 2019/2020 Chelsea International Photography Competition, New York
Honourable mention, “Dis/harmony” Group Exhibition, PH21 Gallery, Budapest
Honourable mention, Special category, PX3 Prie de la Photographie, Paris
First prize, “Street Photography” New York Center for Photographic Arts, New York
Shortlist, 212 Photography Competition, Istanbul
Honourable mention, Neutral Density Awards (Street photography)
Street Photography Exhibition, Downtown Arts Collective, Orlando, Florida
2 Honourable mentions, Chromatic Photo Awards
3rd Place Winner, Annual Photography Awards, Street category

2021

International Street Photography Exhibition, Glasgow Gallery of Photography
Photographic Visions – Winter 2021, PH21 Gallery, Budapest
“The Poetry of the Ordinary”, Photo Place Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont
“Taking Pictures: 2021”, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon
“Composed”, Photo Place Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont
“Motion”, PH21 Gallery, Budapest
Honourable Mention, “The Streets”, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2021 International Photo Competition, Viewpoint Gallery, Bedford, Nova Scotia
Honourable mention, Vienna International Photo Award (VIEpa)
Passepartout Photo Prize, Plazza di Pietra Gallery, Rome
Honourable mention, Special category, PX3 Prie de la Photographie, Paris
“Minimalism”, Decode Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
Curator’s Choice, “-scapes”, Group Exhibition, PH21 Gallery, Budapest
“Open Theme”, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
“Color: Photography Now”, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon
“Street Photography”, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens
Budapest International Foto Awards, 1st place winner, People category
3 Honorable mentions, Chromatic Photo Awards
Honorable mention, Annual Photography Awards, Street category

2022

The Urban between Reality and Utopia (video), Tiradentes Photo Festival, Brasil, and Rotterdam Photo Festival
“All About the Light”, The South East Center for Photography, Greenville, South Carolina
Winners of 2021 Budapest International Foto Awards Exhibition, House of Lucie, Budapest
Lenscratch, The 2/22/22 Exhibition: Pairs and Diptychs http://lenscratch.com/2022/02/the-22222-exhibition/
“Open Vision”, Decode Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
Silver winner, People category – street, Muse Photography Awards
“The Streets”, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
“Taking Pictures: 2022”, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon
8th Fine Art Photography Awards, Street Photography category: Nominee
The Art of Photography, PH21 Gallery at Valid World Hall Gallery, Barcelona
International Street Photography Exhibition, Glasgow Gallery of Photography
Street Sans Frontières, Galerie Joseph – Le Palais, Paris
Center Forward 2022, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado
“Significant Colour”, PH21 Gallery, Budapest
“-scapes”, PH21 Gallery, Budapest
“Focus: Shadow and Light”, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Winner, Photofolios:22, Photopolis Festival, Agrinio, Greece
Nominee, reFocus Awards, One Shot Photo Contest, Street category
“Photo Shoot: 2022”, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon
“Telling Tales”, The South East Center for Photography, Greenville, South Carolina
“The Poetry of the Ordinary”, Photo Place Gallery (Online), Middlebury, Vermont
3 Honorable mentions, Chromatic Photo Awards
Honourable mention, Annual Photography Awards, People: Street Life category

2023

“Street Photography”, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens
Photography in the Visual Culture, Centro Internazionale di Fotografia, Palermo
“Stories”, Decode Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
“Framed: Shadow and Light”, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon
“Street”, Glasgow Gallery of Photography
“Urban”, PH21 Gallery, Budapest
6th Chania International Photo Festival, Crete
“Silence”, PH21 Gallery, Budapest
“Movement”, Glasgow Gallery of Photography
“-scapes @Barcelona”, PH21 Gallery at Valid World Hall Gallery, Barcelona
“The Streets”, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
“In-Between Moments”, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Finalist, Photolucida Critical Mass 2023 Top 50
“Dynamic: Shadow and Light”, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon
“Letters, Numbers and Symbols”, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Official selection and honorable mention, (people/street) International Photography Awards
Head On Photo Festival, Sydney
“The Poetry of the Ordinary”, Photo Place Gallery (Online), Middlebury, Vermont
“Masters of Street Photography”, Glasgow Gallery of Photography
“Light and Shadow – Barcelona”, PH21 Gallery at Valid World Hall Gallery, Barcelona
Bronze Star Award, Neutral Density Awards (People/Street Photography)
3 Honorable mentions, Chromatic Photo Awards
Tokyo International Foto Awards, Honourable Mention, Street Photography category
1st Place Winner, Annual Photography Awards, People: Street Life category

2024

Shortlst, “Street Life”, Competition, Life Framer
Fresh Eyes Talents 2024, Haute Photographie, Rotterdam
“Alone Together”, Critical Mass Top 50, Colorado Photographic Arts Centre, Denver, Colorado
“Taking Pictures: 2024”, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon
10th Fine Art Photography Awards, Street Photography category: Nominee
Editor’s Pick, The Independent Photographer Street Photography Award
“Parallel Voices”, Photometria International Photography Festival, Ioannina, Greece
“All About the Light”, South East Center for Photography, Greenville, South Carolina
“The Poetry of the Ordinary” – Solo exhibition, Gastfeld, Fotokunst Gallery, Bremen
“Street+Night+Architecture”, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon
“The Land of Silence”, MUSA Pavilion (Screen Room), Venice
“Green”, Glasgow Gallery of Photography
“Light and Shadow”, Photo Place Gallery (Online), Middlebury, Vermont
Honourable mention, Analog Sparks Awards
“Photo Shoot: 2024”, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon
“Street”, Glasgow Gallery of Photography
Semi-finalist, Exposure, Head On Photo Festival, Bondi Pavilion, Sydney
“Frames within Frames”, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota

2025

“Cinematic Pictures”, LoosenArt, Millepiani, Rome

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