architecture.

Burder Street.

Series: Lenses on Loughborough Living

Project type: Student.

Date: 26 February 2026.

Camera: Canon EOS 1300D.

Lens: 10-20mm wide-angle.

Bylaw terraced houses, intended for the housing of the working classes during the later Victorian and Edwardian periods, are a common feature of may towns across the midlands, with Loughborough being no exception. These houses on Burder Street in Loughborough are typical examples of this prolific type of dwelling.

These photos are heavily inspired by the works of the artists of the Düsseldorf school of photography, with the two photos of the terraced houses on either side of the street drawing from the typologies of Bernd and Hilla Becher, and the two photos taken along the street in either direction being inspired by photos of streets taken by Thomas Struth.

Part of the series Lenses on Loughborough Living, exhibited at Through 15 Lenses, Leicester, UK, 10 to 20 March 2026.

The future of living.

Series: Lenses on Loughborough Living.

Project type: Student.

Date: 19 February 2026.

Camera: Canon EOS 1300D.

Lens: 18-55mm.

The Garendon Park housing development, also known as the West of Loughborough Sustainable Urban Extension, is an ongoing development of about 3,200 new homes to the north and west of Loughborough by Persimmon Homes, Loughborough-based William Davis Homes and Vistry Group, built on parts of the historic Garendon estate.

These two photos show different stages of progress on the second phase of the development, built by William Davis: the first photograph shows the developer's three show-homes on Eskdale Close, overlooking William Railton Road; the second photo shows houses in various stages of construction on Millbank Close.

Part of the series Lenses on Loughborough Living, exhibited at Through 15 Lenses, Leicester, UK, 10 to 20 March 2026.

Houses on a hillside.

Series: Lenses on Loughborough Living.

Project type: Student.

Date: 19 February 2026.

Camera: Canon EOS 1300D.

Lens: 18-55mm.

These two photographs were arranged in a diptych to showcase different ways that a hillside is treated when houses are built on it.

The first photo shows one side of Chiswick Drive on the side of Thorpe Hill in Thorpe Acre, Loughborough, featuring terraced houses built in the 1970s, built at staggered heights and with side gables.

The other photo shows one side of Dunholme Avenue, also on the side of Thorpe Hill; the houses on the hillside here, built around the 1960s, are semi-detached houses built to an unusual staggered-height design, complete with hanging tiles and an asymmetrical front gable that gives the houses the resemblance of alpine chalets.

Part of the series Lenses on Loughborough Living, exhibited at Through 15 Lenses, Leicester, UK, 10 to 20 March 2026.

Shelthorpe Estate.

Series: Lenses on Loughborough Living.

Project type: Student.

Date: 18 February 2026.

Camera: Canon EOS 1300D.

Lens: 10-20mm wide-angle.

2026 marks the centenary of the Shelthorpe Estate in Loughborough, construction of which commenced in 1926 and continued until after the Second World War. Designed by Barry Parker according to the principles of the Garden City movement, it was regarded as a model estate in its day; the older northern section of the estate was designated as a conservation area in 1975.

This quadriptych, heavily inspired by the typologies of Bernd and Hilla Becher of the Düsseldorf school of photography, shows one of the most notable features of the older part of the estate: the articulated terraced houses forming a circus around the junction of Shelthorpe Road, Woodthorpe Road and Castledine Street Extension. 

Part of the series Lenses on Loughborough Living, exhibited at Through 15 Lenses, Leicester, UK, 10 to 20 March 2026.

East Side, West Side.

Series: Lenses on Loughborough Living.

Project type: Student.

Date: 15 February 2026.

Camera: Canon EOS 1300D.

Lens: 10-20mm wide-angle.

In early 2026, I noticed for the first time how certain types of houses on the Knightthorpe Estate in Loughborough, which were built in the early 1950s, only appeared in specific orientations. This inspired me to create a diptych, featuring two terraces of houses on either side of Tennyson Road on the Knightthorpe Estate, in the style of Bernd and Hilla Becher's typologies, so as to showcase this conscious design choice that was made back in the day for the improvement of the human environment.

Part of the series Lenses on Loughborough Living, exhibited at Through 15 Lenses, Leicester, UK, 10 to 20 March 2026.

Wimpey No-Fines Terraced Houses.

Series: Lenses on Loughborough Living.

Project type: Student.

Date: 27 January 2026.

Camera: Canon EOS 1300D.

Lens: 18-55mm.

"The Wimpey No-fines House was a construction method and series of house designs produced by the George Wimpey company and intended for mass-production of social housing for families, developed under the Ministry of Works post-World War II Emergency Factory Made programme. "No-fines" refers to the type of concrete used – concrete with no fine aggregates." - Wikipedia

100 such dwellings were built as council properties on the Knightthorpe Estate in Thorpe Acre, Loughborough, in the early 1950s. This quadriptych, heavily inspired by the typologies of Bernd and Hilla Becher of the Düsseldorf school of photography, shows four terraces of Wimpey no-fines houses built around the green on one side of Wordsworth Road on the Knightthorpe Estate. These photos show how the homes now have taken on their own individual identities, with many of these homes having been privatised as a result of the Right-to-Buy government policy.

Part of the series Lenses on Loughborough Living, exhibited at Through 15 Lenses, Leicester, UK, 10 to 20 March 2026.

Clarendon Park Congregational Church.

Project type: Student.

Date: 9 October 2025.

Camera: Canon EOS 1300D.

Lens: 18-55mm, telephoto zoom lens.

Ratcliffe-upon-Soar Power Station.

Project type: Student.

Date: 20 April 2025.

Camera: Canon EOS 1300D.

Lens: 18-55mm.

Grace-Dieu Priory.

Project type: Student.

Date: 1 April 2025.

Camera: Canon EOS 1300D.

Lens: 18-55mm.

Skegness Pier.

Project type: Student.

Date: 29 November 2024.

Camera: Canon EOS 1300D.

Lens: 18-55mm.

Taken during a field trip of my BTEC Level 3 Photography class to Skegness in November 2024. The intention of this day trip was to photograph the seaside town outside of the season of high footfall that it encounters during the summer months.

Towers Halo.

Project type: Personal.

Date: 12 November 2024.

Camera: Canon EOS 1300D.

Lens: 18-55mm.

Towers Hall, built in 1965, is a student accommodation hall on the Loughborough University campus. At 68 metres tall, this Brutalist tower block is the tallest building in my hometown of Loughborough, England.

This photograph was taken whilst carrying out a photoshoot for a student assignment; during the photoshoot, I observed the position of the moon behind the top of Towers Hall and photographed the tower from this angle with a 30-second exposure.

Monochrome version exhibited at the Sock Gallery Open Exhibition 2025, Loughborough, UK, 26 July to 27 August 2025.