I trained as a social documentary photographer at the University of Westminster, the London College of Printing and Central St Martins. Developing a participatory approach to photography, I worked for many years for Save the Children and other International Aid organisations as both a consultant and photographer specialising in working with displaced communities in post-war countries worldwide. I also worked internationally as a consultant for the British Council for 8 years.

Over the last 15 years I have developed schools projects as well as advising Local Education Authorities, museums, cultural organisations on social justice and effective engagement of ethnic minority and diaspora communities. I also lead a creative emotional literacy programme ‘Picturing My World’ in schools which I devised in 2007 – the programme has been running for the past 3 years in various London Boroughs.

I have recently begun producing a series of vivid blue cyanotypes – an historical photographic process which relies on the sun to expose the cyan-chemical coated paper. The images are made using both found objects, plant life, text, and digitially produced negatives. I am currently working on a series of works combining collage with the traditional cyanotype process.