My favourite thing about Artsfest is the range of activities to immerse yourself in. You can plan a very structured weekend of things to see and do or mooch around stalls and workshops popping in and out of events as the mood takes you. Our subject here (sorry I don’t have a [...]

Mick and Mary Boylan are my mum and dad. They came down to the Photospace tent at Artsfest to show their support, like a lot of friends and family of the Photospace team, but definitely hadn’t planned to have their portraits taken.
Mum and Dad took a little persuading to pose (we all love seeing [...]

In planning Birmingham’s People I wanted to create a convincing portrait of all aspects of Birmingham’s culture and its social history.
One popular image of the Midlands since the 70s has been its reputation as a centre of long haired heavy metal. As soon as I saw Martin I thought he would be perfect to illustrate [...]

Among the roll call of people we’d like to thank from our weekend at Artsfest are the other Artsfest volunteers who helped us out.  Neil was working as a media officer over the weekend, sorting passes for photographers documenting the whole event and answering journalist queries.  I think his reassuring, calm presence over the weekend [...]

Neil had already had a busy weekend when he came to see us at Artsfest. He’d partied all Friday night at Brumtwestival – a brilliantly successful Birmingham twitter fundraising bash for Birmingham YMCA. You’d never guess from his portrait though.