I climbed alone up the Snowdon Ranger route to clear the seasonal turkey cobwebs.

I starting walking before the sun came up and so the mountain was deserted, I struggled through relentless cloud and wind the whole way, the never being able to see more than 20 yards all around me really added to the isolation.
Turning my back from the view above I was into the wind again trying to catch my breath and heat my frozen fingers, it was then that I saw my first Brocken Spectre or Mountain Ghost…

 

Brocken Spectre

The good guys at New Balance Footwear have just released their print ‘Journal’ featuring the portraiture I shot at their Flimby Laboratory. An honour as always to work with such a staunch supporter of British Manufacturing!

The Heart and Sole of Flimby
Client: New Balance
Agency: Canoe

A new POV short I filmed and edited for New Balance, great to work once again at the wonderful Filmby Factory… More to come from this body of work soon!

“New Balance is the only athletic footwear brand to manufacture in the UK and the film provides rare, behind the scenes access to the workings of a modern day footwear factory”

It’s funny how a minuscule flickering lack of mental judgement at a choice moment can start the roll.
Over a decade of confusion as to why? Fighting to understand through those deep stifling mists of anxiety and hopelessness…

Clambering out of the hole I’d dug in my head took years. Eventually I did it, blindly grasping through the clouds towards control until it became a part of me once again.
I was happy it had all stopped; but then to actually clamber back to where it all started, well I doubted it was worth it or even possible?
To me deep down, despite it all ‘place’ was still the cause… and I knew I’d never go back.

What if this path took me back to the beginning, back to being lost all over again?
Buckling under the weight of 15 years; one foot infront of the other towards my last fear…

… and the clouds clear, I take a breath.