One to One Project Mentoring
I offer one-to-one mentoring for photographers and lens-based artists developing personal, long-term and research-led projects.
Sometimes a project reaches a point where it becomes difficult to see it clearly from inside. You may have been working on something for months or years but be unsure what is missing. You might have too much material, be struggling to edit it, or know what the work is about without yet knowing what form it should take.
Mentoring offers a space to step back from the work, look closely at what is happening and work out where it might go next.
My approach
My own photographic practice has developed through long-term projects concerned with personal experience, memory, family, loss and everyday life.
I am particularly interested in projects that are still evolving: work that does not necessarily have an obvious conclusion at the outset and where meaning develops through making, research, editing and revisiting the material over time.
My role as a mentor is not to prescribe what a project should become, but to help you look more closely at what is already present in the work, ask useful questions and identify possibilities that may be difficult to see when you are deeply immersed in it.
Alongside my artistic practice, I have extensive experience teaching and mentoring photographers at undergraduate and postgraduate level and supporting artists through the development, editing and resolution of substantial bodies of work.
I am the author of two photographic monographs, Tulip and A Stranger in My Mother's Kitchen, both published by Dewi Lewis Publishing.
My experience also spans exhibitions, publishing, commissions, funding and professional practice.
What we can work on
Every project is different, so the mentoring develops around the work rather than following a fixed programme. We might look at:
Project development
Clarifying what the work is becoming, identifying what is working and considering what needs to happen next.
Editing and sequencing
Looking closely at the photographs, making selections and considering relationships, rhythm, narrative and structure.
Research and context
Thinking about artists, writers, books and other research that might deepen or complicate the project.
Photobooks and publications
Developing work towards a book or dummy, including editing, sequencing, structure and approaches to publication.
Writing about the work
Project descriptions, artist statements and finding language that supports rather than over-explains the photographs.
Where the work goes next
Thinking about exhibitions, publishers, funding, applications and other possible forms the project might take.
Three-Month Project Mentoring
For photographers who would benefit from sustained support while actively developing a body of work.
Over approximately three months, we meet three times, allowing space between sessions for making, editing, research and reflection.
The mentoring includes:
Three individual 75-minute online sessions
Advance review of work before each meeting
A project roadmap established during our first session
Editing and sequencing where useful
Research and contextual recommendations
One brief email check-in between each session
A final session focused on the next stage of the project
Sessions are normally spaced around four weeks apart.
Fee £425
Autumn 2026 — six places available
If you would like to work together, please send a short application telling me about the project you are developing, where you currently are with it and what you would most like help with.
You do not need to have a finished or fully defined project.
I work with photographers at different stages of their practice, including emerging artists, graduates, established practitioners and people returning to photography after time away.
Single Mother Artist Supported Place
Fee £250
One of the six places in each mentoring intake is reserved at a reduced fee for a single mother for whom the full cost of mentoring would otherwise present a barrier.
The supported place receives exactly the same three-month mentoring programme.
When applying, there is simply an option to indicate that you would like to be considered for the supported place and to briefly explain how it would make mentoring more accessible to you.
Practical information:
Sessions take place online via Teams.
Material for advance review should normally be sent at least three working days before each meeting.
Up to approximately 30 photographs can be submitted for advance review unless we have agreed otherwise.
Three-month mentoring includes one brief email check-in between each meeting. This is intended for questions arising directly from our previous session rather than additional mentoring or image reviews by email.
Sessions can be rearranged with at least 48 hours' notice.
The three mentoring sessions should normally be completed within 14 weeks of the first meeting.
Mentoring offers critical and professional guidance but cannot guarantee publication, exhibitions, funding, representation or other professional outcomes.
Copyright in all work shared during mentoring remains with the photographer, and work shared privately will not be published or distributed by me without permission.
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Project Review
For photographers who would prefer one focused conversation about a particular body of work.
Before the session, you can send me up to 30 photographs, a short project description and up to three areas you would particularly like us to discuss.
I review the work beforehand so that our time together can be spent looking closely at the project rather than simply seeing it for the first time.
A Project Review may be useful if you are trying to edit a body of work, understand what is missing, resolve a sequence or simply need an experienced outside perspective on where the project currently stands.
75 minutes online
£165