For me there have been precious few advantages to lockdown, frankly I’ve hated it. But it has given me chance to catch up with my editing & revisit some old shoots.

Back in 2017 I embarked on a project with my good buddy David Cudworth at the National Mining Museum in Wakefield. It was a project close to my heart because I spent the first 15 years of my working life in the mining industry. They trained me as an electrical engineer & then I moved into training… there’s no doubt that those early years had a massive effect on my personality moving forward. It was a difficult & challenging environment in which to practice engineering & that required a very pragmatic “can do” approach from its engineers, something I’ve never lost. I have so much to thank the industry for.

One of the shoots was in the Victorian section of the mine & tbh I’ve never really given the images I captured the love & attention they deserve. I’ve decided to work up 4 of them as a panel & here’s the first two.