Portraits become stories when we allow them to hold more than appearance.

Personal projects and commissioned stories about identity, presence, work, heritage and the lives held within a photograph.

Three women posing together against a neutral background. The woman in the back has long red hair and wears a black lace top. The woman in the middle has short white hair and glasses, wearing a black top. The woman in the front has shoulder-length blonde hair, wearing a sheer black top, with her hands folded on her lap, and wears a ring and bracelet.

I am interested in what a portrait can preserve: the way a woman inhabits a particular chapter, the relationship between generations, the tension between private identity and public role, and the subtle details through which a person becomes recognisable to those who know them.

These stories bring photographs, conversation and sometimes film together. They are not intended to explain a person completely. They create a considered record of something true at the time.

Portrait Stories

SEEN

The woman who learned to slow down

A portrait story about movement, the Pentland Hills and finding joy in the simplicity of everyday life.

A woman with long blonde hair wearing a black tulle dress and silver jewelry, sitting with her hand on her knee and her foot resting on a wooden box against a textured gold background.
Read Vickie’s Story

GENERATION

What We Carry
Three women. Three generations. One family story.

A portrait of the relationships, memories and forms of creativity passed between a grandmother, daughter and granddaughter.

A portrait of an elderly woman with white hair and glasses, and a young woman with brown hair, both wearing black clothing, sitting close together against a plain brown background.
Read the Generation Story

A MAN IN A KILT

Belonging, work and the decision to return

Three portraits trace Brodie’s movement from East Lothian to corporate London and back to a life shaped by golf, family and place.

A young man dressed in traditional Scottish attire, including a tartan kilt, sporran, and knee-high socks, is sitting against a plain brown background. He is smiling and looking at the camera.
Read A Man in a Kilt

Your portrait does not need to become a public story.

The same attention given to these projects is present in every private commission. Some women want their story shared; many do not. Privacy is always a separate choice, and no portrait or personal account is published without explicit permission.

A woman with long, blonde hair and closed eyes, holding her hand over her chest, surrounded by swirling pink and purple lights against a dark background.
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