Fiveways Photography

Welcome to Fiveways Photography. Brighton based photographer. People, Portraits, Events, Products, Interiors, Weddings and Fine Art prints.

Based in the City of Brighton and Hove, I am a photographer with an independent eye and vision that brings a slightly unconventional method and results to my picture making. With a passion for high calibre monochrome film, I rarely work with digital cameras, and still prefer the original methods for printing, using skilled professionals in the printing field to help me realise the visions I see when making an image. I am equally comfortable working with colour.

Growing up in west London during the early punk era, and with very strong connections to the area still, has instilled an urban grit to my work that I thoroughly enjoy, trying to connect with the people I am photographing, revealing something new, and I hope that my own humanity shines through too. As well as people, I enjoy the very natural elements in the amazing world around us, and have been somewhat blessed to live in this lovely old decaying City of Brighton, with the south downs on our doorstep. So capturing a heron fishing in Victorian gravel pits, for example, is equally as important as a grab shot of Mick Jones leaving Loftus Road, or Hanif Kureshi at a book reading.

I have been fortunate to work with John Peel, Norman Wisdom, Mark Thomas, Chris Eubank, Norman Cook, Buzzcocks, Michael Franti, Mark E Smith, Anita Roddick, Bruce Kent, Tony Benn and Jamie Oliver amongst many others.

Without any desire to name drop, I have been fortunate enough to work with John Peel, Hanif Kureshi, Mark Thomas, Big Jim Sullivan, Norman Wisdom, Cyril Regis, Michael Moore, Buzzcocks, Michael Franti, Big Jim Sullivan, Chris Eubank, Tony Benn at Hay Festival, Sarah Walters, Jamie Oliver, Chris Adams, Les Ferdinand, Blue Tones, Ron Gould, Herbie Flowers, Norman Cook, Jimmy Cliff, George Melley, Evan Dando and Dame Anita Roddick amongst others. I have been published in national papers and international photography books, as well as by BBC as part of the Brighton Fringe Festival. See the work on the BBC site here.