Reform UK The Tories are now just four points ahead of Reform UK.A YouGov survey conducted on March 19th and 20th put the Conservative Party on 19% of the vote and Reform on 15% – a record high for the party. An assignment for Helsingin Sanomat to meet their party candidates in Dagenham, London at...
Finnish Olympic Sauna A given story for Finlands largest newspaper Helsingin Sanomat about a Finnish wooden sauna from the 1948 London Olympics that has just received a Grade II listing – the same status given to Alexandra Palace. After the Olympics the Finnish Olympic delegation donated the sauna to the nation and it was acquired...
Jean Seaton An assignement for Helsingin Sanomat to photograph the portraits of Professor Jean Seaton at home in London. Jean is the Professor of Media History at the University of Westminster and the Official Historian of the BBC. She is also the Director of the Orwell Prize and on the editorial board of Political Quarterly.She...
Portraits of Artist Mette Linturi It was great to have met up with Mette Linturi in London to take her portraits for Finnish Helsingin Sanomat.Our photographer Natalie Earthy did all the photography and I assisted with the lighting and took some video clips for the newspapers social media. We were uncertain if the photoshoot would...
British pubs are closing and disappearing An assignment for Svenska Dagbladet about British Pubs that are closing at an alarming rate.A hundred years ago, there were close to 100,000 pubs in Great Britain. In 2021, there were just over 37,500 pubs left. In 2022, over 1,000 pubs were forced to close. This year, around 20...
Zećira Mušović Is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Chelsea in the Women’s Super League and also for the Swedish national woman’s team. The assignment from Swedish Dagens Nyheter was to photograph Zećira for a forthcoming story about individual Swedish team players in the build up to the FIFA WORLD CUP...
Britain’s rivers are being ruined by thousands of sewage spills An assignment for Helsingin Sanomat about the national scandal of water companies discharging untreated sewage that is polluting Britain’s rivers, lakes & coastline.Data recently released from the Environment Agency showed there was an average of 825 sewage spills per day into England’s waterways in 2022....
Swedish Military Instructors in the UK Up to 10,000 Ukrainian citizens will be given training by the UK Armed Forces over the coming months at four sites across England.The Swedish government has sent to the UK up to 120 military instructors to conduct basic military training where over five weeks the Ukrainian citizens will receive...
Flowers outside Buckingham Palace Thousands of people are leaving flowers outside Buckingham Palace and messages of support to the Royal Family as the nation mourns Queen Elizabeth II.
Queen Elizabeth II dies aged 96 Britain’s longest-reigning monarch Queen Elizabeth II died at the age of 96, peacefully at her home of Balmoral. Thousands of people gathered outside Buckingham Palace to pay respects to Her Majesty the Queen following the announcement of her death.
Conservative Leadership Election 2022 The next leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party and the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom will be announced on 5th September, after 12 rounds of hustings around the UK. On assignment for Helsingin Sanomat we visited the 2nd round of hustings in Exeter, Devon.The surprise at this hustings...
An assignment from the Swedish Embassy in London to photograph the King and Queen of Sweden who visited the AstraZeneca’s Discovery Centre In Cambridge. During the tour Queen Silvia tried on a HoloLens in a demonstration of how augmented reality helps with HoloLens technology. The following day they attended the Signing Of A Memorandum Of...
Cecilie Fjellhoy Portraits of Cecilie Fjellhøy who is featured in Netflix’s documentary programme The Tinder Swindler.The assignment was from VG (Verdens Gang) who required a series of portraits of Cecilie and also some behind the scenes images of her being filmed at home by the Norwegian film team from ‘Luksusfellen’ with programme leaders Hallgeir Kvadsheim...
Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson Prime Minister Boris Johnson hosts a summit for members of the Joint Expeditionary Force, the group includes Finland, The Netherlands, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Estonia. Sweden’s Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson during her meeting with Boris Johnson inside 10 Downing Street. Assignment for Dagens Nyheter.
The Labour party’s ‘red wall’ is now blue Labour’s red wall, the set of constituencies mainly in the Midlands, Northern England and North East Wales turned blue during the 2019 general election. Redcar was the largest Labour majority overturned by the Conservatives with Jacob Young MP winning with a majority of 3,527.An assignment for Helsingin...
Storm Eunice hits the UK Storm Eunice hits the UK with a rare red weather warning. This image of Newhaven lighthouse, East Sussex, was taken early in the morning when the wind speeds were up to 80mph (34m/s). Behind The Picture I wanted to illustrate storm Eunice with a dramatic image and felt that a...
Jarkko Tontti, Finnish Novelist, Poet and Lawyer Assignment from Helsingin Sanomat to travel to Cambridge and take the portraits of Jarkko Tontti a Finnish novelist, poet, essayist and lawyer.Jarkko a supporter of freedom of speech, moved with his partner to the University of Cambridge, for a year. From the UK, he can clearly see that...
Juggler Sakari Mannisto It was really nice for us to have met Finnish Juggler Sakari Männistö on an assignment for Helsingin Sanomat. Sakari is a professional juggler, circus artist and a director, he is also a founding Artistic Director of Agit-Cirk and the Silence Festival in Lapland (2006-present) and London (2017). Natalie our photographer on...
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...
