A project for
@yorkshirecancerresearch I shot last year, with Harry at
@darwin__studios producing and bringing together such an incredible group of people and their stories.
Thank you to everyone involved in this project, one I won’t forget doing. Here below is a beautiful write up on the project from Harry.
“Some briefs are different. They make you sit up a little bit more and really want to do as much as you can for the client. This was one of those briefs for Yorkshire Cancer Research. We were tasked with casting and working with real people living with cancer across Yorkshire for Yorkshire Cancer Research’s campaign and crafting imagery that really showed a true love for Yorkshire. Jack did a fantastic job at this with some really stunning images.
This was a project personally really close to my own lived experience. In 2011 I lost my dad to prostate cancer. And in 2025 my mother called me to tell me she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. I also live in West Yorkshire. So when I sat down with the creative and my Jack to run through the project, it felt deeply personal for the pair of us.
We cast real people living in Yorkshire and living with cancer. For 2 weeks my inbox was filled with so many different stories of life, strength but one thing which connected them all, resilience. The ability to have something so heavy happen to you health wise yet step forward and email a total stranger about being photographed in a campaign, it was nothing short of remarkable. And it was a total privilege to work with people across Yorkshire with so many moving and touching stories about love, life and everything in between.
The responsibility and care to make this project come to life and whilst also carrying the trust people had put in you to share their stories was immense, but it was something both myself and Jack really took on and carried throughout the shoot. We hiked across windy moors, walked through woodland and scrambled up hilly cobbled streets. The result is this beautiful campaign which I am so honoured to have produced and had Jack doing such a gorgeous job with the photography. A huge thank you to the team at Consider, Yorkshire Cancer Research