Etch House by Fraher Architects - hacking the Victorian terrace

November 14, 2017

This is Etch House by Fraher Architects and their sister joinery company Shape London. Lizzie and Joe - the directors of Fraher - gutted their Victorian terraced house and totally reconfigured the floors, walls and staircase to create a completely different space. It was fascinating to shoot something so different within the familiar confines of a South London terraced house (very familiar, 'cause I live in one!). There is more about the project in a write up on Dezeen: https://www.dezeen.com/2017/11/08/etch-house-fraher-architects-renovation-extension-london-uk/. Lots more photos below...

Victorian villa transformed into energy-efficient eco-home

July 18, 2017

A couple of weeks ago I shot a real feel-good project: local, environmentally-aware and beautiful. Chris Newman lives a couple of streets away from me, and over the last six years he has been transforming a typically cold and leaky Victorian house into a high-performance, warm, energy efficient family home.

Sunrise at Box Tunnel on Brunel's birthday

May 09, 2017

A pretty special assignment - taking photos of the rising sun from within Box Tunnel on the London-Bristol mainline. The tunnel was designed by Brunel, completed in 1841, and legend has it that the sun shines all the way through the 1.83 mile tunnel on his birthday (April 9th). I joined an expedition organised by GWR to see first hand if that is true.

Results were inconclusive,: the sun certainly aligns with the tunnel, and if it wasn't for the light mist it may have shone all the way through. The photos were featured in several national papers the next day.

Newport Street Gallery by Caruso St John

October 14, 2015

A few pictures of Damien Hirst's brand new Newport Street Gallery, designed by Caruso St John. Just because I was nearby, on a lovely afternoon, and it's such a beautifully box-fresh building.

“The construction of Newport Street Gallery involved the conversion of three listed Victorian buildings, which were purpose-built in 1913 to serve as scenery painting studios for the booming local and West End theatre industries. With the addition of two new buildings, the gallery now spans half the length of the street.”

— http://www.newportstreetgallery.com/about

Café Viva, Peckham

August 17, 2015

I recently did a shoot for Café Viva in Peckham (www.cafeviva.co.uk), just around the corner from my house. They have just had a refurbishment and will use the photos for their forthcoming website. I can personally recommend the banana bread with yoghurt, which I happily consumed a few seconds after photographing it.

Turner Contemporary, Margate

November 07, 2014

I was in Margate earlier this week. As we drove into town in the late afternoon, the sky was a leaden grey and it was raining lightly. I walked along to the Turner Contemporary with my camera thinking that the light grey building against the dark grey sky and mid grey sea would be a rhapsody in grey-ness. But then the sun dipped below the clouds and set the sky on fire.