From world-renowned institutions to grassroots cultural projects, these photography commissions celebrate the vibrancy of the arts and heritage sector.
Capturing the essence of performances, exhibitions, and historic spaces, each project tells a visual story that reflects the creativity, legacy, and impact of the organizations behind them.
With an emphasis on authenticity and atmosphere, these images bring to life the people, places, and moments that define our cultural landscape.
The UK’s light art biennial Lumiere
Over two million people have enjoyed Lumiere Festival in Durham and London which showcases light artworks by national and international artists sited against buildings, streets and landscape. I have photographed it for creative producers Artichoke since its inception in 2009.
Poole Museum
The principal buildings of the Poole Museum estate comprise a late C18 Gravity Mill, C14 quayside wool warehouse and an Elizabethan Inn about a central court. The museum collection is now in storage while the buildings are restored and the museum refitted. I have begun documenting the process through to completion in 2025.
Poole Museum
HCL Architects
St Bartholomew’s Hospital North Wing
The Grade I listed North Wing of St Bartholomew’s Hospital by architect James Gibbs was completed in 1732.
Built to house the financial and management functions of the hospital its Great Hall and staircase decorated by William Hogarth was used by the Governors to welcome and entertain the great and the good of the City to attract them to become donors.
Barts Heritage leads the rescue and rejuvenation of these nationally important buildings and will transform their use conserving remarkable architecture and art collection.
For the first time the North Wing will open for year-round public use by pioneering a new model of heritage-based support for wellbeing, in a programme that also includes skills development and educational and cultural activities.
Barts Heritage
St Bartholmew’s Hopsital
La Machine Liverpool 2008
La Princesse, a giant mechanical spider, captivated Liverpool during its 2008 European Capital of Culture celebrations. Standing 50 feet tall and weighing 37 tonnes, it was a remarkable engineering feat. Over five days, the spider, controlled by theatrical scientists, roamed the city, drenching crowds with water as it moved from Lime Street to the Echo Arena, Albert Docks, and more. The spider’s journey ended when it vanished into the Mersey Tunnel, leaving an unforgettable memory for the thousands who witnessed it.
Temple, Derry-Londonderry
In March 2015, creative producers Artichoke brought Burning Man artist David Best to the Derry-Londonderry. Together with people from across the community a beautiful shared structure was built that measured 72ft high before it was ceremonially burnt.
‘It is a temple, not to any faith or denomination, but to human perseverance in the face of life’s cruellest twists.’
Phineas Harper, Architectural Review, May 2015
Doran Browne
Heightened site-specific experiences underpin the work of Beckett, Friel, Wilde, Homer and WG Sebald in Festivals curated by Doran Browne.
f r a g m e n t s : The Waste Land 2022, a celebration
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of T. S. Eliot’s masterpiece The Waste Land, the Eliot Estate has commissioned DoranBrowne Arts Imagineers to curate f r a g m e n t s, a six day festival featuring multiple diverse performances in 22 unique and extraordinarily intimate late-medieval churches, many just a short walk from each other across the City of London inspired by themes and images from the poem. All connecting performance, poetry and place.
Portraits
Portraits of prominent figures in from the world of arts and literature.
