Lung Ha Theatre Company is an organisation that I’ve admired for a long time. They’re a professional theatre company, made up of performers with a variety of learning disabilities. They create award-winning productions, are respected as professionals within their industry, and collaborate with some excellent creative partners.
One of the ‘keepers’ of Dr Stirlingshire’s Discovery
A nice bit of news to share with you this chilly Friday afternoon – I am delighted to announce that three of my images have been selected for Creative Review’s Photography Annual 2016. Every year, a judging panel of industry experts selects photographs which present ‘the best in visual communications from the past year’, to celebrate new work in the field of photography. The winners feature in renowned creative magazine, Creative Review. The standard is always world-class, so as you can imagine, I was humbled and delighted when I heard the news last month that I was to be part of the selection. In fact, it was a very difficult secret to keep.
As you may know, I’m working on an exciting project at the moment, with long-time collaborators, O Street, and a construction organisation who I volunteered with in Sierra Leone called Orkidstudio. The project actually began in 2014, when I travelled to Kenema with Orkidstudio, photographing a community who were building a new school for Swawou School Foundation. The building was to provide new facilities for local, underprivileged girls to get a better education, joining up innovative design and construction techniques to make a building that would work for years to come.
A market stallholder selling fruit and vegetables in Kenema
I shot this wee film last month for Denvir Marketing and Shelter Scotland using stills in a barn whilst storms where battering on the walls: