Projects

In the everyday

regular offerings

This Is Us a personal collection

I use Instagram for regular posts on social media. You can follow me @ThatWeBelong.

They are all portraits of people who have made my life possible.

Each portrait is titled using my standard format. You can learn more about how I title the work on the ‘story of hands’ page.


In the world

past projects

Lifelines: West Africa a learning journey

Three months of slow travel, listening to how people self-describe where they live and gathering clues for how we can get better at working towards a better world for all.

  • About this journey: why, when, where, how

  • A visual blog: Impressions in hand portraits and snippets of text

Lifelines: encounters in West Africa
a book

Portraits from the journey with a conversational essay about the work, the journey and how we live in the world.

This link opens to the flipbooks on Blurb (to view and/or buy)

 

In the making

work in development

This Is Us our online gallery

‘That We Belong’ is being developed to house an online gallery of people who make our lives possible.

This global gallery will include hand portraits of loved ones, companions and other people in our lives.

It will be possible to submit photographs as well as search for and display collections – including our ‘mothers’, ‘friends’, ‘artists’, ‘teachers’ and more.

Lifelines: Edinburgh

This project is being designed to visualise and celebrate connections in Edinburgh, the city where I live.

For three weeks I will gather portraits of friends, visitors and companions through a mixture of incidental, seemingly random moments and planned meet ups.

Everyone photographed will be invited to a shared meal taking place in the exhibition venue.