A travelling White Tent studio Glastonbury & England 2003-2015

In 2003, after a chance meeting, I was invited to become part of the Glastonbury Festival. I had no idea at the time that this was the start of a 12 year adventure: it began as I arrived in a muddy field, carrying a huge white tent that became a portable portrait studio to photograph the wild and wicked attending the festival. I was given a derelict caravan, food and the opportunity to wander the festival’s outer fringes and to photograph hundreds of travellers in my white tent. My photos and stories were internationally published and exhibited extensively: outside in the middle of the festival, the V&A museum, the Saachi gallery, before becoming a large book. The White Tent had its own journey, however: it took me around the country to city centres, beaches people’s homes, photographing trainspotters, undertakers, Mount Everest climbers, boxers, market traders, ramblers, dogs & cats, London’s lost property office.... The list goes on! I had a regular spread of portraits these in the Guardian Magazine and received an Arts Council award to spend a week making portraits in Birmingham’s city centre, where they were exhibited.