This Field Note documents a commissioned editorial photography assignment for The Times, covering the sudden closure of a Bright Horizons nursery in Beckenham following the sale of the HSBC sports ground to Crystal Palace Football Club. The assignment was commissioned for that day’s edition. The brief centred on Charlotte Sivvery, a 41-year-old teacher from Beckenham,...
This Field Note documents an editorial portrait assignment for The Times, featuring Marc Warner, co-founder of AI company Faculty and now global chief technology officer at Accenture. The portrait was photographed at Italia Uno, a small Italian café on Charlotte Street in central London, a place Warner had frequented since his student days at UCL....
This Field Note documents an editorial photography assignment for Helsingin Sanomat, exploring the growing trend of paving over front gardens in London and its contribution to surface flooding. The assignment focused on the relationship between individual household decisions and a wider environmental issue. Across London, front gardens are increasingly being converted from planted or permeable...
This Field Note documents an editorial assignment for The Times, photographing an event at the British Museum ahead of the arrival of the Bayeux Tapestry. The tapestry itself wasn’t there yet. It was still on its way to London, but the stories within it were already being revisited, particularly those of the women whose presence...
This Field Note documents an editorial portrait assignment for The Times, featuring Rachael David, an antinatalist who believes that having children is morally wrong. The feature examines falling birth rates and the growing number of people who actively choose not to have children, with David offering a personal perspective on the philosophy behind antinatalism. The...
This Field Note documents an editorial assignment for Helsingin Sanomat photographed in Windsor, featuring Sam Cader and his three corgis, Jam, Honey and Snowdon. The accompanying article explored the corgi’s place within British culture and public imagination, while also examining wider questions around breeding, inherited health issues and welfare. Windsor was central to the assignment....
Roger Hallam This Field Note documents a photo-exclusive editorial portrait assignment for Dagens Nyheter, photographing climate activist Roger Hallam shortly after his release from prison. The assignment coincided with Hallam’s first interview as a free man following his release, during which he was subject to electronic monitoring. Hallam is a co-founder of climate activist movements...
This Field Note documents an editorial assignment for Helsingin Sanomat, photographed outside Buckingham Palace in London, shortly after news broke that former Prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor had been arrested on his 66th birthday. The commission came through as a breaking news request, with the emphasis very much on speed and immediate response. I had just returned...
Live Happy: A Campaign for TUI Lakes & Mountains This Field Note documents a brand photography assignment in Zell am See, produced for TUI Lakes & Mountains as part of the brand’s first destination shoot. The imagery was created to establish a visual foundation for the programme, shaping how alpine summer destinations would be represented...
Annecy for TUI Lakes & Mountains This Field Note documents a destination photography assignment in Annecy, produced for TUI Lakes & Mountains following the destination’s reintroduction into the programme. The imagery was commissioned to re-establish Annecy as a key location within the offering and to support its role within newly launched multi-destination holidays. The assignment...
Melissa Heikkilä This Field Note documents an editorial portrait assignment for Helsingin Sanomat, featuring journalist Melissa Heikkilä, who reports on artificial intelligence for the Financial Times in London. The portraits were photographed at Heikkilä’s workplace, Bracken House in the City of London, the headquarters of the Financial Times. Access included the newsroom, circulation areas, and...
Elinoora & Samuli Sirviö This Field Note documents an editorial portrait assignment for Helsingin Sanomat, featuring singer-songwriter Ellinoora, photographed in London alongside her producer and husband Samuli Sirviö during the production of her fourth album. London was central to the narrative of the article, functioning both as a place of work and a source of...
Pila for Crystal Ski Holidays This Field Note documents a destination photography assignment in Pila, produced to support the launch of a new resort within the Crystal Ski programme. The imagery was commissioned as foundational destination content, created for use across the brand’s resort pages, editorial features, and digital platforms, and housed within TUI’s Digital...
Mette Linturi This portrait assignment was commissioned by Helsingin Sanomat and focused on photographing dancer and performer Mette Linturi, whose work has gained international attention following her appearance in The Jungle’s “Back on 74” — a release that sparked a widely shared global dance trend. Linturi has also appeared in music videos for FKA twigs...
Oliver Ward This portrait assignment was commissioned by Helsingin Sanomat and photographed Oliver Ward in London during a period of acute pressure within the city’s rental market. The intention was not to illustrate the crisis in broad terms, but to focus on the everyday process of looking — time spent waiting, searching, and assessing options...
Saturday – Pall Mall and Viewing Screens in St James’s Park This Field Note documents a two-day editorial commission for Helsingin Sanomat, covering the Coronation of King Charles III — a historic state occasion — across London and Windsor. Working as the publication’s official photographer alongside journalist Helmi Muhonen, the assignment involved near-live image delivery...
Finnish Circus Artist Sakari Männistö This Field Note documents an editorial portrait assignment for Helsingin Sanomat, featuring Finnish circus artist Sakari Männistö. The commission marked a career-spanning feature published in celebration of his fortieth birthday. The portrait was photographed on location in Shoreditch, London. The setting was selected in advance to reflect both the tone...
Sainsbury’s — Colleagues in Focus This project was about people first. Photographing real colleagues in their own working environments — across Sainsbury’s and its integrated brands Habitat, Argos and Tu — and translating those moments into modular cut-outs that could live flexibly across a wider visual system. Rather than casting or constructing scenes, the focus...
Rising Gas Prices in the UK This Field Note documents an editorial assignment for Helsingin Sanomat, produced in response to rising gas prices in the UK and their impact on domestic life. The portrait focused on a household experiencing the effects of increased living costs at a moment when access and movement were restricted. Due to...
Hästgården This Field Note documents an editorial portrait assignment for Dagens Nyheter, connected to reporting on the Hästgården case — a well-documented scandal involving abuse at a riding school in Sweden. The portrait features Lucy, a whistleblower whose testimony played a central role in bringing the events to public attention. At her request, she remained...
Floral Tributes at the Royal Residences This Field Note documents editorial coverage produced during the national mourning period following the death of Queen Elizabeth II. The work focuses on public response across London and Windsor as collective grief was expressed through ritual, gathering, and occupation of shared space. Following the announcement of her death, crowds...
Artist Yinka Shonibare This Field Note documents an editorial portrait assignment for Dagens Nyheter, featuring artist Yinka Shonibare, whose work examines cultural identity, colonialism, and post-colonial narratives within a global context. A distinctive use of brightly coloured Ankara fabric has become a recurring visual language within his practice. The portrait was photographed in Shonibare’s London...
John Mckown – Ibiza Calm This Field Note documents an editorial portrait assignment for Helsingin Sanomat, featuring psychotherapist John McKown, Managing Director of Ibiza Calm. The accompanying article explored McKown’s work with high-profile clients and included reflection on his professional relationship with Avicii. The portraits were photographed on location at McKown’s consulting rooms on Harley Street,...
Lauren Okadigbo This portrait assignment was commissioned by Helsingin Sanomat and photographed stunt performer Lauren Okadigbo, whose career spans major international film productions including Wonder Woman and Ready Player One. While her practice is rooted in physical risk and action-driven environments, the intention of the shoot was to step away from overt references to that...