I am an audio-visual journalist. My arts practice is centered around contemporary life - how we live today.
I work with images, video, soundscape, voice, 3D models & data clouds.
Recently I've been exploring the "liminal zone" - a space we cannot see with the naked eye; a place where the physical and digital world's collide.
The on-going project 'City Scans,' (presented here) utilizes ultra high-speed video to scan and capture the movement and rythym of people and objects through time. I focus on the dynamics of commuters and transportation systems in some of the world's largest cities; Tokyo, Hong Kong, London and Istanbul, revealing new perspectives on the urban landscape.
Other projects have produced long exposure 3D photogrammetric portraits and voice recordings; The Coal Face and Kings of the Underground - a study of the physiognomy (facial details) and memory of Welsh coal miners - exhibited at the Muxeum of Wales. I've experimented with photo-crushing of time lapse sequences; Ghost City. While "The Crossing" examined the world's busiest crossing in Shibuya, Tokyo in time lapse and "slow-lapse".
The digital installation (composed of points clouds, video + soundscape) explored the effect of social media algorithms on society during Covid.
Until 2012, I was based in Hong Kong and Tokyo. During that time, I carried out photo-journalsitic research in China that received several international awards and commendations. In Japan, I covered developments in robotics and, later, the Tōhoku tsunami and nuclear disaster before returning to the UK.
I work on local, national and international projects.
On-Going
"City Scans" - NordArt2025 6th June - 5th October, 2025, Budelsdorf, Germany NordArt "Istanbul Metro #3" (part of the "City Scans" series) Turner House (open call), Penarth, Wales (UK). Sept-October 2025."City Scans" - ArtEvol - Voices From The Undefined - 12 - 19th September, Saatchi Gallery, London
Past
From China to the Digital interface" - presentation, Salon der Fotographie, Hamburg, Germany, 06 June 2025
Portraits from "Wales: A Home from Home" (Vision Fountain cic) Welsh Senedd, (Welsh Parliament), June-July 2025
"Behind the Picket lines" (with Vision Fountain) Big Pit (Welsh) National Coal Museum (UK)- Contemporary 3D Portraits / Soundscape of Welsh Miners' memories of '84-'85 strike - March 2025
"Tokyo Summer Storm" - Turner House, Penarth, Wales (UK). Sept-October 2024.
"Kings of the Underground" (with Vision Fountain) - A series of 3D portraits of Wales' last generation of coalminers, Museum of Wales, Swansea (UK). Nov 2022- March 2023.
"Time Slice London" (with associated prints by Chieko Jones) at Borderlands Exhibition, Fitzrovia Gallery, London, (UK) 2022 (digital installation with soundscape by Phil+Jai Reeve)
Ffotogallery / Diffusion21, Cardiff, Wales (UK), Oct 1st - 31st, 2021 (digital installation with soundscape by Phil+Jai Reeve)
"The Crossing" (prints and audio-visual installation with music by Phil Reeve), August 28th - 31st, 2020, part of group exhibit, The Pie Factory, Margate, (UK)
"The Car, The Future, Me", Mixed media audio-visual installation, July 2019 - December 2020, British Motor Museum, Warwickshire, England (UK) (soundscape composed by Phil Reeve)
"The Coal Face", 3-d portrait installation, Ffotogallery / Diffusion Festival 2019, 4th-April- 30th April 2019, Shift, Capitol Centre, Cardiff, Wales (UK) (soundscape composed by John Rea)
"The Coal Face", 3-d portrait installation (Diffusion Festival 2019), 4th-April- 30th April, The Senedd (Welsh Assembly), Cardiff, Wales, (UK) (soundscape composed by John Rea)
"Motor Mouths", Digital Installation, May 2018, The British Motor Museum, Warwickshire, England, UK (soundscape composed by Phil Reeve)
"Energy+Notion", Digital Installation, 2016 - 2017, Newbridge Memo, Blackwood Miners Institute & Pontardawe Arts Centre, Wales, UK
"The Soul of Money", Organ Harvesting in The Philippines, (part of group exhibit) 2016 - DOX Centre for Contemporary Arts, Prague, Czech Republic
"Undercover China" - 2011, FCC, Hong Kong, China (China retrospective)
"Mother of the Disappeared" (portrait), 2009, Smithsonian, New York, USA
"The Panda Factory", 2008, FCC, Hong Kong
Recognition & Awards
Including:
Finalist, "Outstanding Individual" at Lottery Fund Awards (Heritage) for "Kings of The Underground", Museum of Wales 2023Three First Prizes, Human Rights Press Awards (Asia), related to China's One Child Policy, between 2007 - 2011First Prize, NPPA (National Press Photographers Association, U.S.) for a series of environmental portraits of women trafficked in China, 2011POYi (Picture of the Year Int.) Nomination, “World Understanding Award” for One Child Policy, China, 2011Highly Commended, Foreign Reporter of the Year, UK Press Awards, 2011First Prize, International Colour Awards (USA), Outstanding Achievement, 2009
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