2006 Architecture Week 2006 - Lets Make it Personal commission

Commission from the Culture Company to produce a series of portraits of individuals who have a passion for their built environment, architecture and communities for the Yorkshire Architecture Week brochure.

Alison Drake, Castleford

July - November 2005 On Ration - commission and exhibition

Commissioned by Skipton Auction Mart in collaboration with writer, Pat Borthwick, to explore the ways that local farming and agriculture were affected by WW2. Exhibited at Skipton Auction Mart from 19 November - 8 December 2005.

Betty Walker, Land Army Girl

June 2005 70 Years of Penguin Books

Cover photography for The School Inspector Calls by Gervase Phinn.

January 2005 - present The Countryman magazine

Cover and features photography on UK rural issues.

Nov 2003 - present Transhumance in Romania

Click here to link to Romania Travel grants from the European Cultural Foundation and Arts Council England, Yorkshire to undertake research for a new project about transhumance and rural life in Northern Romania. I am currently working with Impressions Gallery, York to develop this project into a touring exhibition in 2007 and have received a further G4A grant in 2004 for this project. Published in 8 photojournalism in June 2005.

July 2004 The Sunday Times Magazine

Portrait of Clarissa Dixon Wright for A Life in the Day.

July 2004 Artist in Residence at the Royal Show, Stoneleigh

April 2003 - present Focus on Farmers (commissioned by Aune Head Arts with Beaford Arts)

Artist in residence on an Exmoor hill farm where I lived and worked with the family to produce work documenting their lives and relationship to stag hunting and was mentor to a textile artist. This work is currently touring venues in the South-West.

August / September 2003 Artist in residence at the Artist Centre of Inari at Koppelo, Northern Finland

2001/3 Moor and Dale

Click here to link to Moor and Dale A commission from Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty to produce new work about the people and landscape of the area. Selected work from this commission was shown at the Nidd Castle Shooting Box on Lofthouse Moor during the 2003 Nidderdale Festival, The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate (31st January to 21st March 2004) and The Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes (June - August 2004). Moor and Dale was exhibited at the Dennis Potter Gallery, Ross-on-Wye as part of the Hereford Photography Festival, October 2004.

2002/3 upshoots

Click here to link to upshoots A collaboration with writer, Pat Borthwick and Rural Arts North Yorkshire to produce work about the people and landscape of the Howardian Hills AONB for a series of exhibitions and accompanying booklet. A series of community workshops were held in villages in the AONB during 2004.

July 2002 'Hedgerow' - Community Arts Workshops at Crayke School as part of upshoots.

Week long project in collaboration with writer Pat Borthwick using poetry, photography, new technology and performance techniques about local hedgerows with children age 4 - 10.

July 2002 Pavilion's Switched On Programme, Nak-sha, Leeds

Documentation of Nak-Sha project and portraiture of participants as part of multi-media projection for a performance at West Yorkshire Playhouse by SAMyo, the UK's South Asian Music youth orchestra.

2002 Norton Wildlife Watch Group (junior branch of Yorkshire Wildlife Trust)

Rural Arts project to produce A year beside the Derwent, calendar 2003 in collaboration with writer, Pat Borthwick and the young people of Norton Watch.

2002 Sheep to Shakespeare - commissioned by Littoral Arts

Project at Skipton Auction Mart to document the reopening to livestock on 28th February 2002 following foot and mouth restrictions.

2002 Waitrose Food Illustrated Magazine

Various features and portrait photography.

2001/2 Portrait and documentary photography for North Yorkshire Cultural Strategy.

October 2001 The Village - A Portrait of Chipping - commissioned by Littoral Arts.

Commission to produce a series of portraits with text to show the effect of foot and mouth disease on a community in Forest of Bowland for Grass Roots forum, Oct 2001.

2002 Sheep to Shakespeare - commissioned by Littoral Arts

Project at Skipton Auction Mart to document the reopening to livestock on 28th February 2002 following foot and mouth restrictions.

August 2001 TONE, The Culture Company in partnership with Yorkshire Arts, Opera North 2001 Impressions Gallery

Photography of the TONE artists for publicity CD.

April/May 2001 Photography Workshop Leader, Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate

Running a series of photography / digital imaging workshops in conjunction with digital artist at the Chill Out Zone, Knaresborough with young people relating to Ian Beasley's work 'A Funny Old Game' which was shown at the Mercer Art Gallery.

2000/01 Added Value - Littoral's Digital Arts and Farming Project

Click here to link to Added Value Funded by the Arts Council New Audiences Programme I worked with hill farmers in Yorkshire and the Forest of Bowland, Lancashire looking at diversification and the changing role of farming women as well as continuing to document day to day life. My work was featured on BBC 1 Countryfile on June 3rd 2001.

March/April 2001 Ryedale District Council - Photographic commission

Commission to photograph various arts activities in Ryedale area including visual and performing arts, music and youth work.

Ongoing Guardian Weekend Magazine - Features Photography

'The Wild Rovers' (17.02.01) portraiture of football fans and documentation of fans at Tranmere Rovers vs Stockport match. 'Local Heroes?' (02.03.02) documentation of farmers markets in Rochester and Hammersmith. Photography for 'Model Citizens' (20.4.02). Portraiture for 'United we stand?' (22.06.02) and 'We love each other' (02.11.02, 22.03.03, 29.03.03, 31.1.04, 13.3.04).

September 2000 Artist in Residence at Gil society studio-workshop, Akureyri, Iceland

Click here to link to Iceland I ran photography workshops at Kompanii (Information and Cultural Centre for young people age 16 - 25) and worked on a personal photography project about 'hlunnindi', the peripheral resources attached to a farm or community. Support was received from Agfa, Kentmere Ltd, MOVE and Yorkshire Arts Training and Development Scheme.

March 2000 - November 2000 LAMB - photography commission

Click here to link to LAMB One of 7 projects commissioned by The Culture Company as part of Brilliant. In partnership with Yorkshire Arts and part of Year of the Artist, this work was exhibited at Impressions Gallery, York between 17th Nov 2000 and Jan 6th 2001. I have produced a series of 28 photographs with text and accompanying sound track about the hill farmers of the North York Moors looking at their relationship to the land, their animals and their day to day work in a period of change and insecurity for the farmers. A regularly updated email diary was viewable on the internet. Published in Yorkshire Life (March 2001), Photo Art International (Issue 23 April/May 2001) and Ag Darkroom Practice & Photography Vol 24.

May 2000 'Put British Pork on Your Fork' photography commission for poster and postcard.

Frbruary 2000 - May 2001 Peabody People project

Click here to link to Peabody People Commission to interview and photograph Eddie Wainwright for the 'Peabody People' project, the Peabody Housing Trust's Millennium book collection. 10 photographers worked with 10 of their London tenants, producing a series of images based on quotations by that person talking about experiences from their life. Published May 2001 and exhibited at the Spitz Gallery, London, 17 January - 7 February 2002.

July 1999 Photographer in residence at Scarborough Festival of Youth Arts.

Photography / printing workshops with young people to document Festival events.

January 1999 - present Eat Better, Eat British

Click here to link to Eat Better, Eat British My personal project 'Eat Better, Eat British' is concerned with issues around farming and food production and consists of portrait and landscape photographs based in the area of Yorkshire where I live and work. I have received a Yorkshire Arts Photography Production Award for this project. This work has also received an Honorable Mention in the Oskar Barnack Award 2000 by Leica for a picture story expressing the relationship of man to his environment and was projected at the 31st Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles, France on 6th July 2000. Published in the British Journal of Photography, 6.9.00.

May 1999 Photographic Artist - Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester

'Histories of Place': 2 - day photography and digital imaging project for adults in response to Hart Island Exhibition at Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester. The workshop participants were encouraged to explore aspects of memories and spaces in response to the exhibition using a variety of experimental techniques demonstrated by myself and a digital artist.

May - July 1998 Photographic Workshop Leader - Photo 98 and The Van Plan / CYC

Working alongside digital artist on Photo '98 funded workshops with young people in Thirsk, Northallerton, Richmond and Askrigg, in conjunction with the Van Plan and working on the theme of 'Out of Space, Out of Time' for a touring exhibition. Techniques involved: use of compact and SLR cameras and tripod, black and white film processing and printing, image transfer onto fabric, digital photography and use of Photoshop, photographing people and landscape / environment.

August 1990 - August 1992 Living in a Lamp Post - Personal work

A document of lighthouse life and the automation of lighthouses which has been widely exhibited and published and was funded by a wide range of organisations including Yorkshire and Humberside Arts.

2007	Penguin books commission
	Commission from Penguin books to photograph book cover for God's Own Country - a novel by Ross Raison to be published in March 2008.

2006/7	Pavilion (Leeds)
	Production of 2 special edition prints from Made in Vietnam series.

2006	Architecture Week 2006 - Lets Make it Personal commission
	Commission from the Culture Company to produce a series of portraits of individuals who have a passion for their built environment, architecture and communities for the Yorkshire Architecture Week brochure.
	Alison Drake, Castleford

July - November 2005	On Ration - commission and exhibition
	Commissioned by Skipton Auction Mart in collaboration with writer, Pat Borthwick, to explore the ways that local farming and agriculture were affected by WW2. Exhibited at Skipton Auction Mart from 19 November - 8 December 2005.
	Betty Walker, Land Army Girl

June 2005	70 Years of Penguin Books
	Cover photography for The School Inspector Calls by Gervase Phinn.

April 2003 - present	Focus on Farmers (commissioned by Aune Head Arts with Beaford Arts)
	Artist in residence on an Exmoor hill farm where I lived and worked with the family to produce work documenting their lives and relationship to stag hunting and was mentor to a textile artist. This work is currently touring venues in the South-West.

2002/3	*upshoots*
Click here to link to upshoots	A collaboration with writer, Pat Borthwick and Rural Arts North Yorkshire to produce work about the people and landscape of the Howardian Hills AONB for a series of exhibitions and accompanying booklet. A series of community workshops were held in villages in the AONB during 2004.

July 2002	'Hedgerow' - Community Arts Workshops at Crayke School as part of upshoots.
	Week long project in collaboration with writer Pat Borthwick using poetry, photography, new technology and performance techniques about local hedgerows with children age 4 - 10.

July 2002	Pavilion's Switched On Programme, Nak-sha, Leeds
	Documentation of Nak-Sha project and portraiture of participants as part of multi-media projection for a performance at West Yorkshire Playhouse by SAMyo, the UK's South Asian Music youth orchestra.

2002	Norton Wildlife Watch Group (junior branch of Yorkshire Wildlife Trust)
	Rural Arts project to produce A year beside the Derwent, calendar 2003 in collaboration with writer, Pat Borthwick and the young people of Norton Watch.

2002	Sheep to Shakespeare - commissioned by Littoral Arts
	Project at Skipton Auction Mart to document the reopening to livestock on 28th February 2002 following foot and mouth restrictions.

October 2001	The Village - A Portrait of Chipping - commissioned by Littoral Arts.
	Commission to produce a series of portraits with text to show the effect of foot and mouth disease on a community in Forest of Bowland for Grass Roots forum, Oct 2001.

August 2001	TONE, The Culture Company in partnership with Yorkshire Arts, Opera North 2001 Impressions Gallery
	Photography of the TONE artists for publicity CD.

April/May 2001	Photography Workshop Leader, Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate
	Running a series of photography / digital imaging workshops in conjunction with digital artist at the Chill Out Zone, Knaresborough with young people relating to Ian Beasley's work 'A Funny Old Game' which was shown at the Mercer Art Gallery.

2000/01	Added Value - Littoral's Digital Arts and Farming Project
Click here to link to Added Value	Funded by the Arts Council New Audiences Programme I worked with hill farmers in Yorkshire and the Forest of Bowland, Lancashire looking at diversification and the changing role of farming women as well as continuing to document day to day life. My work was featured on BBC 1 Countryfile on June 3rd 2001.

September 2000	Artist in Residence at Gil society studio-workshop, Akureyri, Iceland
Click here to link to Iceland	I ran photography workshops at Kompanii (Information and Cultural Centre for young people age 16 - 25) and worked on a personal photography project about 'hlunnindi', the peripheral resources attached to a farm or community. Support was received from Agfa, Kentmere Ltd, MOVE and Yorkshire Arts Training and Development Scheme.

July 1999	Photographer in residence at Scarborough Festival of Youth Arts.
	Photography / printing workshops with young people to document Festival events.

May 1999	Photographic Artist - Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester
	'Histories of Place': 2 - day photography and digital imaging project for adults in response to Hart Island Exhibition at Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester. The workshop participants were encouraged to explore aspects of memories and spaces in response to the exhibition using a variety of experimental techniques demonstrated by myself and a digital artist.

August 1990 - August 1992	Living in a Lamp Post - Personal work
	A document of lighthouse life and the automation of lighthouses which has been widely exhibited and published and was funded by a wide range of organisations including Yorkshire and Humberside Arts.