20.06.13 Bournemouth Show

My work is on display at the Arts University Bournemouth until the 27th June and then showing at Candid, Islington London from the 3rd July to the 5th July.

04.06.13 Sponsored Walk!

I have just completed a ten mile walk around the New Forest with fellow photographer Nicola Smith! The money raised will help me pay to have my work professionally mounted for the Bournemouth and London shows!!!!

23.05.2013 Commercial Drop!

Come one and all to the Commercial Drop in central Bournemouth!!

Excellent Photographic prints for sale!

22.05.2013 Isabel Brothers Illustration

My talented little sisters exhibition piece, very impressed!

29.04.13 SNEAK PEAK!

SNEAK PEAK

It's not long now until this project is all wrapped up and ready for the exhibitions!

To keep you wanting more heres a sneak peak!!

24.04.13 The Beginning

Taxidermy! Road Kill! And all things Natural!

A brief introduction to the subject of my upcoming project!

Every project has its beginnings and for once this project seemed to happen quite easily. My previous project had felt like a mad dash where I’d been unable to connect properly with any of my subjects, so for this project I wanted to do a story entirely on one person’s life. I faced a big problem though, which was finding a subject interesting enough to warrant three months shooting and I was excited when I first came across Jonathan. Mr McGowan came up in a conversation I had with my sister, we quite often discuss our creative ideas and we were discussing taxidermy when she mentioned the name of a local taxidermist who was a bit of a local celebrity. Although it was not his taxidermy people knew him for, but his unusual lifestyle choices, the most bizarre of which is eating roadkill.

With all this in mind I was anxious to meet the man who lived off the land and see if his life was as shocking as it first sounded, but on meeting him I found he is a normal man with many interests which influence his way of life. With his own set of morals firmly installed in the environment and wildlife Jonathan does his best to live in harmony with nature.

The more I researched and spent time with Jonathan the more I have grown to admire his dedication to the preservation of wildlife and his ongoing quest (as it were) to educate and persuade a nation which shuns the natural from their busy, high tech lives.

 

13.04.13 UPCOMING PROJECT!

Get excited people! The project I've been working on since the beginning of January is almost complete!

After my last project I wanted to base a project solely on one interesting person. I wanted to concentrate on representing them truthfully and making a big piece of work about them. 

When I met Jonathan I instantly knew the project would work. He's a local taxidermist, environmentalist and just so happens to eat roadkill. Check out his interests and hobbies here: http://www.thenaturalstuff.co.uk/ .

In the next few weeks leading up to the unveil of this project I will use this blog to document its growth! Only last week was I chowing-down on badger, rat and buzzard but soon the project will end!!!