Hong Kong Resident Visa Scheme An assignement for Helsingin Sanomat about a Hong Kong family that have moved to Sheffield. A visa scheme to allow Hong Kong residents to come to the UK opened in January, with some 300,000 people expected to apply.Those who hold a British National Overseas (BNO) passport will be allowed to...
Boston and Brexit The Lincolnshire town of Boston that is surrounded by flat arable land had immigration levels increase by 460% between 2004-14 mainly from Eastern Europe.The town also had the highest UK leave vote of 76% in the 2016 referendum. A visit to the town for Helsingin Sanomat to find out how Boston is...
Hen Rehoming An assignment from Helsingin Sanomat about Hen Adoption.The British Hen Welfare Trust has for the past 16 years has been rescuing hens from slaughter and rehoming them as pets throughout the UK. They hold regular rehoming days throughout the UK which are dependent on farm slaughter dates. A minimum of 3 hens are...
Dover and Brexit Christmas Eve and Dover saw severe disruptions.Thousands of lorries in Kent heading for the Port of Dover were parked at Manston Airport and along the M20 motorway with Operation Stack & Brock activated due to the sudden 48 hour closure of France’s border (in light of a new strain of Covid-19) with...
Author Danny Dorling When Oxford professor Danny Dorling publishes a book titled ‘Finntopia – What We Can Learn from the World’s Happiest Country’ it was not suprising that Finland’s and the Nordic’s largest newspaper Helsingin Sanomat would like to interview him. We met Danny at his home in Oxford where over a cup of tea...
Author Nina Schick It was nice to have recently met author Nina Schick on an assignment for Helsingin Sanomat. Nina’s latest book ‘Deep Fakes and the Infocalypse’ highlights the danger from the future that is here now.Advances in artificial & falsified video created by artificial intelligence allows a person in an existing video to be...
City Of London Ghost Town The City of London, one of the most important financial centres in the world, was pre-Covid a hive of activity with some 518,000 people commuting into the City every day – it is now a ghost town. No one knows when life will return to its streets. On assignment for...
Brexit Lorry Park & Customs Clearance Centre Ashford An assignment for Helsingin Sanomat about the lorry park & Brexit customs clearance centre being built at Asford next to the M20 motorway in Kent where it is planned that some 2,000 lorries can be parked on the site. The lorry park’s 27-acre site is being built...
It was nice to have met Mihály Szeróvay, an assignment for Helsingin Sanomat.Mihály a former Hungarian football player retired from playing football and moved to Finland where he took his Master’s & Doctor’s degree before becoming a University lecturer in football in Southampton. The reason for the assignment was that Mihály had just become Finlands...
Eton College After one of the UK’s most prestigious schools Eton College sent its pupils home due to the coronavirus outbreak, a few days later it opened its doors again to hundreds of local children of key workers in the front line of the battle against the coronavirus. The children aged 5-13 can attend the...
John le Carré The nicest thing I know about being working as an editorial photographer illustrating news stories is that every now and then I receive an amazing assignment – as was the case when I recently photographed David Cornwell, better known by the pen name John le Carré. The assignment was for...
Crewe Alexandra FC It was a long return drive up to Alexandra Stadium in Crewe to photograph the FA CUP 3rd Round match between Crewe Alexandra FC – Barnsley F.C. (Result 1-3) It may have been a long trip but it was a fun assignment for Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat. The reason for going there...
Lauren Okadigbo An assignment for the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat to photograph Finnish stuntwoman Lauren Okadigbo. Lauren is a professional movement artist, dancer, martial arts expert & stuntwoman. She is known for her work on Justice League (2017), Wonder Woman (2017) Ready Player One (2018) and Solo (2018) A Star Wars Story, she has been...
General Election 2019 Edinburgh An assignment for Dagens Nyheter covering ‘The Count’ in Edinburgh which stared in the evening with the first votes being counted by hundreds of vote counters in a vast hanger at the Ingliston Royal Highland Showground. The evening ended in the early hours at a SNP Election Night Party at the...
General Election 2019 St Andrews An assignment for Dagens Nyheter in St Andrews, Scotland on the day of the General Election. We visited the North East Fife constituency of St Andrews and spoke with people on how they had just voted. In most of the UK the choice stands between the Conservatives & Labour, here...
General Election 2019 Grimsby The key for a Conservative majority in today’s General Election is to win in the Labour ‘Red Wall’ the some 50 constituencies in the Midlands & Northern England that stretch from the West to East coast and that have nearly always voted Labour. On assignment for Dagens Nyheter we visited Great...
General Election 2019 Workington Man A think tank identified identified ‘Workington Man’ as a stereotypical swing voter – an older white man who votes Labour but also voted for Brexit, to leave the EU. This crucial group of voters in the ‘Labour Heartlands’ of northern England is the Conservatives new target voter, and could be...
Extinction Rebellion London Extinction Rebellion is calling an International Rebellion starting on October 7th, for 2 weeks. Assignment for Helsingin Sanomat to photograph the rebellion in London, images show activists sleeping in tents and protesting outside the Home Office and a protest action outside the Houses of Parliament.
Knepp Wildland Project An enjoyable assignment for the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet to photograph & film the Knepp Wildland Project on a 3,500-acre farm near Horsham, West Sussex. Since returning to the wild, the Knepp Castle estate is now an important home for many endangered wildlife species including nightingales and is one of the major hotspots...
Death Cafe Death Cafe meetings are organised by volunteers who arrange meetings for people, often strangers to each other, to meet at a local café where they can eat cake, drink tea and chat about death in an informal manner with the topics determined by attendees. According to the Death Café website there have been...
Amanda Svensson Portraits of Swedish author Amanda Svensson taken by the coast near her home in North Cornwall, an assignment for Dagens Nyheter. Amanda debuted as an author in 2008 with her novel Hey Dolly, her second novel Välkommen till den här världen was nominated to the Augustpriset in 2011. In 2014 her third novel...
Conservative Leadership Election The 10th of 16 nationwide Tory leadership hustings for Conservative party members came to the East Midlands and was held at the Nottingham Belfry. The voting members of the Conservative Party heard speeches from both candidates Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt and they were also allowed to ask questions. Last week, the...
Gentleman Jack – Anne Lister A very interesting assignment from Helsingin Sanomat to photograph Shibden Hall in Halifax, the former home of Anne Lister (1791 – 1840). Gentleman Jack is a historical drama television series created by the BBC based on the diaries and life of diarist Anne Lister. Set in 1832 in Halifax, West...
Brixton If you flew SAS during May & June and read their inflight magazine Scandinavian Traveler you may have come across their Brixton feature story that we were assigned to photograph. This was a fun assignment and the brief was to capture the colour, diversity & eclectic buzz of Brixton. Images included the daily street...
Brexit Party Peterborough Images of Nigel Farage at the Brexit Party rally in Peterborough where he confirmed the Brexit party wants to run candidates for Parliament in the next General Election. Sharing the stage were Tim Martin, Ann Widdecombe, Richard Tice and MEP candidates.
Extinction Rebellion Extinction Rebellion activists block Oxford Street and hold a symbolic catwalk across Oxford Circus to highlight the disposable nature of the fashion industry in the epicentre of London’s shopping district. Models paraded across the iconic crossing accompanied by a choir and musicians including opera singers. Assignment for Dagens Nyheter.
March to Leave An assignment from Dagens Nyheter to follow the March to Leave campaign, a protest at the Government’s handling of Brexit organised by Leave Means Leave. The march started in Sunderland on March 16th and will 277 miles later finish in Westminster on March 29th, we followed the Day 3 route from...
Brexit Portraits Portraits from various Brexit editorial assignments these past few weeks from London, Essex, Buckinghamshire & Wales. Images show demonstrators from yesterday 2nd meaningful vote outside Parliament, ‘Brexit Preppers’ people who store food in case of a no deal, Government officials & businesses affected by Brexit.
No Confidence Vote Theresa May survived a vote of no confidence yesterday after more than a third of Tory MPs rejected her leadership. College Green opposite the Houses of Parliament was packed with media teams from around the world, MPs & Ministers including Amber Rudd shuffled between numerous TV & Radio interviews. Demonstrators supporting both...
Stop Brexit Campaigners In the lead up to the Meaningful Vote on the Brexit deal in Parliament many campaigners for and against Brexit have been protesting outside The Houses of Parliament. Ardent remainer Steve Bray, a coins dealer from Port Talbot, in South Wales has been seen by millions of TV viewers as he holds...
Carole Cadwalladr Portraits of Carole Cadwalladr taken for Dagens Nyheter in conjunction with that she had been awarded the annual Steig Larsson Prize (author of the The Millennium-trilogy). Carole is a a reporter and feature writer for the Observer, who broke the story that became the Cambridge Analytica scandal. An image was also published by...
Brexit Withdrawal Agreement With the EU leaders agreeing to the UK’s Brexit deal at a Brussels summit we went to Northamptonshire for Dagens Nyheter to gauge the views of voters in Conservative MP Peter Bone’s constituency where in some areas up to 62% voted for leave. We visited working mens clubs where people gave their...
Brexit Draft Agreement Whilst Theresa May was holding a cabinet meeting about the Brexit Draft Agreement hundreds of people from Peoples Vote & Leave Means Leave demonstrated outside 10 Downing St. For hours the worlds press waited for Theresa May to make a statement – the only activity in Downing St during the marathon 5...
Tessa Hadley Portraits of Tessa Hadley photographed at her home in London. An assignment for Dagens Nyheter in conjunction with her latest novel ‘Late in the Day’ has been translated into Swedish ‘Syskonen’. Tessa Hadley Novels Accidents in the home (2002). Everything Will Be All Right (2003). The Master Bedroom (2007). The London Train (2011)....
Philippe Sands Assignment from Dagens Nyheter to photograph the portraits of Professor Philippe Sands QC. The portraits were taken as his best seller book East West Street was the first of his many books that has been translated into Swedish ‘Vägen till Nürnberg’.
Poundbury A visit to the experimental town of Poundbury for the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat. Poundbury on the outskirts of Dorchester, Dorset is built on the land owned by the Duchy of Cornwall. The construction of the town designed by Prince Charles started in 1992 and is now some two-thirds complete and is...
Leave Means Leave The Leave Means Leave cross-party campaign started its ‘Save Brexit Rally’ UK tour in Westhoughton & Bolton with Nigel Farage arriving on a new Battle Bus. Nigel walked around the streets of Westhoughton and visited a market and local pub. In the afternoon a large rally was held at the University...
Labour Conference Liverpool 2018 On the opening day of the Labour Conference in Liverpool a demonstration was held attended by thousands of people demanding a People’s Vote On Brexit. Anti-Brexit protesters marched through Liverpool city centre from St George’s Hall to the Pier Head. An assignment for Dagens Nyheter.
Caroline Criado Perez An assignment for Dagens Nyheter to take the portraits of Caroline Criado Perez a feminist, writer, campaigner and Consultant. In 2013 Caroline successfully campaigned to keep a woman on an English Banknote and that year the Bank of England announced that Jane Austen would appear on the £10 note from 2017....
Hard Brexit An assignment for Dagens Nyheter to meet London Swedes who expressed their opinions about how they feel a hard Brexit would effect them should it happen. Also for Dagens Nyheter a visit to MP Boris Johnson’s constituency Uxbridge and Ruislip South to speak with his constituents about their thoughts that the remain voters...
