Me by my Grandad about 27 years ago 💙💙💙
Peter Holt was a wonderful photographer and storyteller and is the reason I got into this career. He’s been gone for what feels like a long time now. I scanned a lot of his photos when we had his funeral (the man was meticulous at keeping his negatives catalogued), and there are so many gems that remind me of him, and allow me to see who he was from the same age I am here up until he was 90 years old. What a gift.
Week 17: hybrid stills and video on this one which has been fun! Museum, my body weight in coffee (not pictured), and finally some glorious sun (pictured)
Week 16: The biggest meal I’ve eaten in years, losing dramatically at pool, and Oli got taken by a giant claw. For years I have looked at the toys in the claw machine and laughed, thinking myself above their predicament. My only ruler was the coins I have to use the tools to grab. But there’s always a bigger claw and bigger claw operator. Always.
Week 14+15: fuck it, back to weekly posts
If we've spoken at any point in the last three months, you may have realised I'm slightly creatively adrift and trying to find ways to express myself better. I feel like I've started a lot of projects that I've struggled to finish so far this year, all for fairly valid reason, but still something I find annoying. enjoyed posting weekly photos for the last couple of years. Thought I'd not do it this year. And I think I made the wrong choice.
I like having Instagram as a bit of a diary of what I've been up to. So we're going back to that .
March // year’s been a rollercoaster so far. I was going to say with more downs than ups, but then, aren’t the downs the fun bit of rollercoasters? Anyway, it’s been a ride, so I’m starting again - happy new year everyone
FEB // although almost all just pics of a lovely anniversary trip. not having the year i'd hoped so far. but time i'm spending with people i love is making it all ok 🤍
Today is Safer Internet Day, so I’m resharing this film we made a couple of years ago.
I would love for this film to have become irrelevant in the last two and a half years since we made it. But sadly, it seems like it’s more relevant than it was before.
This is a film about online misogyny and about groups that are radicalising men and boys into behaviours that are misogynistic and harmful. We made it because we really care about issues like this, and for me specifically I wanted to make it because I’ve lost friends over this in the past.
The world feels more divided than ever, and access to misogynistic online forums at a young age causes an inordinate amount of damage to young boys which can turn dangerous quickly. I know because I was on the internet at a young age, and I’m very lucky to have not fallen down those pipelines myself.
Funny thing about this film is that we showed it at a number of festivals and other screenings, and the response has always been... weird. At one festival, there was a Q&A afterwards, and on the panel, all of the other filmmakers were asked very interesting and considered questions about their films. I was asked if it was nice to see my film on the big screen.
Typically, when a man has been moderating, they swerved any questions relating to the content of this film.
Look I get it, this is a really hard conversation to have. But films are meant to start conversations. Since we made this Adolescence came out and it has sparked more of a nationwide conversation around this issue. But it’s not enough, and change isn’t coming fast enough.
This year’s Safer Internet Day campaign is largely centred on AI, and I think that’s really important. But talking to boys about how to behave online, where they’re finding information, what they’re learning, who they’re learning from... that matters a lot too.
Here’s hoping this time next year I won’t feel the need to share this again.
January Faves.
Tried to write a caption about the month and what I got up to but it’s overshadowed by things I don’t want to talk about online. I’ll leave it as this. The young ones will grow and you’ll watch their personalities unfold and it’s amazing and magical and like nothing else in the world. The in-between moments on the road to where you’re going is all that really matters. Nothing is promised and every moment of joy must be bottled and loved and kept as long as you have power to keep it x
This is the last roll on my Olympus MJU II. I had this camera for about 8 years now, and it’s always been one of my favourites, a tiny little pocket-sized 35mm film camera that I’ve taken on lots of trips, on lots of sets, and had with me through lots of little and large and always important life moments.
But as is often the way with old film cameras, it’s now kaput. It’s impossible to turn the camera off without taking the battery out, and the autofocus mechanism has just stopped working altogether. This is actually only the second film camera I’ve ever used this broken. I had a kiev 60 at one point where the shutter got stuck, but they were renowned for falling apart very quickly, and I got that very much on the cheap.
This roll of film I shot over the course of most of 2025. There’s moments here from commercial campaigns, from very important moments of my life - photos I’m not choosing to share online - and one final blurry image of me in the mirror. Goodbye, trusty lil fella.
1 - Act.
I’ve had this idea to make short videos that feel like a sort of journal for a long time. And I’ve not done it.
The word of this year is Act, but last year was the last time I didn’t choose a word for my year, and I think I felt the effects of that. It was creatively stagnant. I went nowhere when it came to my storytelling craft.
Really, that’s where this year’s word came from.
In the past I’ve had words like Connect, Vulnerability, and Adventure. They always seem to ring true by the end of the year - even if the way that they do surprises me.
Making this video - the first of many - is part of what embodying this word, and doing things without overthinking them.
