Eden for The Last Ballad of Magdalen. 

A project from 2023. Shot in a house I was just moving out of, based on an urge to make one last piece of work in a space that had been home for seven years. Years that had seen me graduate university, begin the stages of navigating the creative industries as a photographer, and of course those lockdown times. I’m in the process of writing this project up and will add it to the Personal Projects section on my website menu.  

I may have shared this image as an ‘image of the week before’… but I take a very holistic approach to these posts and generally share what takes me at the moment I’m looking for an image to share. Perhaps I should be be more organised and have the images prepped in advance more often, but I also quite like taking a lucky dip through my work and seeing what’s landing with me at that moment in time. 

Why journal at all? It’s a way to share more work, you can only show so much on your website and instagram. Those of you who have followed my work/career for years will already know I used to be a ‘blogger’. From around 2010-2014 I wrote a pretty successful blog about vintage and secondhand fashion and style. I worked with many amazing brands and had some brilliant experiences. 

However by 2014, I was becoming concerned about over consumption and was I pushing that through my blog? Blogging was changing and although I didn’t know it at the time, the hints of  ‘influencer’ culture were starting to develop. I knew something was changing and it wasn’t a direction I was feeling my groove with. It was a hard choice to stop blogging (in fact I killed years of work by taking it off line). Blogging 100% helped me get on the career path I am now on. Not just through the opportunities it gave me but the way it helped build my confidence and explore and develop my interests. In those early days of blogging, us bloggers were just throwing our thoughts out online, not even knowing if anyone would read our posts. Following numbers didn’t matter to most of us. Those days seemed like much simpler times…

Image: Eden - (instagram) 

Assistant Morwenna Farrell (instagram)