Shooting on film is unpredictable, inconvenient, expensive and restrictive. But these are also the very things that make it compelling, addictive, joyful and life-enhancing.
Introducing my new series of walks: Love Letters to London
Join me as we uncover a London immortalised in literature: the buildings, the lanes, the shops, the parks, and the secret places dear to the writers who loved this city as much as we do.
Book Club: Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf’s much loved classic set on a sunny June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for her party whilst Septimus Warren Smith makes his way through the final day of his life.
Why I fell in love with shooting on film
Shooting film has enabled me to take images that convey the beauty of the places I visit more atmospherically than my iPhone camera will allow and with less hassle than my digital camera presents.
On disrupting routines
In the depths of a soporific winter it can be hard to keep creativity and inspiration alive. Switching routines can be a simple way to shake things up.
On joining a Choir When You Can’t Sing
Learning to sing has been one of the most surprising, difficult, joyful, frustrating, tearful and ultimately wonderful things I’ve ever done.
Here is my story.