My practice has always centred on people, and increasingly involves a commitment to giving participants visibility and agency, working alongside them, treating image-making as a shared process in which their voices shape the outcome.

In recent projects I have focused on masculinity, questioning received ideas of what it means to be a modern man. I have worked with survivors of testicular cancer, exploring the psychological impact of treatment and how it alters their sense of their own masculinity. I am also interested in working-class masculinity, and in offering more nuanced representations of working men at a time when political discourse is increasingly polarised and caricature comes easily.

My aim is to make visually engaging, thought-provoking images that act as a framework for participants to speak and to influence how they are seen. I am interested in individuals: their particular stories, contradictions and experiences, which resist the generalisations often applied to groups of people.

My recent work has incorporated still and video portraiture and a mixture of environmental portraits and also images that are more constructed.

Now based in London, I spent many years living in Hong Kong, where I had my first exhibition. Alongside my photographic work there, I developed interventions that encouraged the public to question the design and management of public space and facilitated discussions between stakeholders which led to concrete changes. That experience continues to inform my approach: a belief that who is seen, and who has a say, is never neutral and has impact, whether in an image or in the city around us.