This month I received the thrilling news of being awarded a Heritage Lottery Fund project grant to allow the London Alternative Photography Collective, which I currently co-direct, run a series of exciting events!  

This April I have had the pleasure to do a series of artist talks at the Science Museum presenting my practice and the chlorophyll printing process. The talks have been very popular with an estimated audience of +200 attendants !  

This March I was approached by The Auction Collective to show the Piece Mariah Idrissi at Menier Gallery and participate in an auction. I was interviewed by their curator Francesca Wilson (you can read the interview on this link), and I was invited to present my work to a selected group of collectors. 

This February I have been working with BBC Four on a commission for the Victorian Sensations documentary which will be launched in May at BBC Four and at the Institute of Contemporary Arts.  On this occasion, I demonstrated my practice as a specialist on Victorian photographic techniques and did an interview with Philippa Perry. 

BackThen,  a new media outlet that works as part of In the NOW - a platform with over 3.3 million followers- also came to the studio to do a short documentary focusing on my practice, which will be launched on early April. 

2019 has started with a fantastic course at National Portrait Gallery, as well as a day lecture at University for the Creative Arts and the regular wet collodion courses in my studio! 

This December, I have been invited by the Royal Society to give a talk about my practice and to demonstrate the wet collodion process for the event Collections by candlelight, Victorian Christmas. 

From the 29th of Ocober until the 29th of November, I have been in China working in 2 different projects:

- An arts residency awarded to me by the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute together with Format Festival, where I gave a lecture at this university and produced new work . 

-The exhibition Vision and Reflection at the Tsinghua Art Museum in Beijing, curated by Phillip Prodger, for which I was commissioned a video demonstrating my practice . A whole room of the exhibition was dedicated to this video projection, being one of the highlights of the show. 

This October the Photography Centre of the Victoria and Albert Museum opened its doors.  As part of the new centre, I was commissioned to demonstrate some of the processes I use in my practice for a video that is on permanent display at the museum’s dark-tent space. 

I am very pleased to share that I was invited to show my work at Unseen Amsterdam with my colleagues from London by this year CO-OP curator Lars Willumeit. 

You can read my interview with the festival organisers here, and listen to a feature of my work at Unseen Radio. 

From the 28th of June until 28th of September, I am an artist in residency at RAW Labs , Bow Arts. 

As part of my residency I am showing my series of chlorophyll prints Growing Concerns, and I am also running a series of public events. 

Below some images of the display and the public events.