Photo essays

Denbigh Sugar Plantation

Tracing the sale of Boulton & Watt steam engines and works supplied from Soho Foundry near Birmingham to Denbigh Sugar Plantation in Jamaica

The Spanish Have Landed

Intended for Jamaica exhibition blog series over the next few weeks will focus on some of the objects on display until 24 August at the...

One Love Bob Marley

Bob Marley's visual legacy permeates Jamaica, evident in vibrant murals adorning walls across the island. These artworks, often...

Windrush

London is the Place, London, this lovely city Photograph: Windrush Bus Notting hill Carnival, London, 2019 This year marked the 75th...

Hand-painted in Gambia

Back in 2019 I stayed for a week in the small town of Bakau in a community called Kachikally, in Western Gambia, which is 12 km to the...

Birmingham Ghost Signs

Battery Charger, Small Heath, Birmingham Why I spent several years photographing Birmingham's faded ghost signs Faded hand-painted ghost...

Postcards Fieldnotes Jamaica

Photograph: On the Road to Blue Hole unused postcard, published by A Duperly & Son, Kingston, Jamaica, on Trumpet leaf, Tracey Thorne I...

Tanio Cave Art in Jamaica

In January 2020 before the pandemic kicked in I finally got to explore and see first hand some of Jamaica's early cave art made by the...

Meeting Jamaica's Painters

In 2018, I travelled to Jamaica to start an evolving documentary photography project called Hand-painted Jamaica which aims to capture...