About
Halcyon has been photographing people for over a decade, and the approach has not changed much in that time: turn up early, stay out of the way, and be ready for the ninety seconds that matter. Most of the work is documentary — weddings, family sessions, editorial commissions where somebody needs a person to look like themselves rather than like a stock photograph. When a shot needs building, it gets built properly, with lights and time and a plan. When it does not, it gets left alone. Everything is edited personally. No presets applied in bulk, no outsourced retouching, no gallery delivered with two hundred near-identical frames in it. What you get back is the edit — the frames that are actually worth having, colour-matched to each other and to the light on the day.
Press
The 2024 North Coast project was shortlisted in a national landscape prize.
A long interview about working without flash in difficult venues.
Fifteen framed prints, shown over six weeks in summer.
Who I work with