In February 2012 I was asked by Vintage Life magazine to write an article about my Southern Retro portrait project. The article ran in their March issue alongside selected portraits from the project.

In February 2012 I was asked by Vintage Life magazine to write an article about my Southern Retro portrait project. The article ran in their March issue alongside selected portraits from the project.


I woke with a hunger like I’d never felt before. Like I’d not eaten for days. I’d slept really badly

After a climate disaster resets the world to a pre-electronic age, a thick, impenetrable cloud layer renders the surface inaccessible. Alex, his Uncle James and their elderly cat Gaspode, live in peaceful isolation atop a hill in an observatory turned farmstead, their days marked only by tending livestock and avoiding the sun’s harsh glare. With no way to know if anything remains beyond the sea of clouds, they have long accepted that they might be the last people left alive.
But everything changes the day an airship emerges from the mist.

In February 2012 I was asked by Vintage Life magazine to write an article about my Southern Retro portrait project.

Through no fault of my own (okay, there was quite a lot of fault) I am ‘blessed’ with three children,