Portrait Installation at Lancing College

I was thrilled to be able to work with Original Field Architects, Outback Rigging and Genesis Imaging again to create an installation at Lancing College, Sussex, to commemorate their 175th anniversary. The school asked for nominations from their community of alumni, students and staff for people who are making a difference, and I made portraits of the 28 most popular nominees. The portraits really pop out against the backdrop of the painted portraits of former head masters and founders of the college.

Hold Still Exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery

It was particularly exciting to visit the newly renovated National Portrait Gallery at the end of the summer because my zoom portrait of Laura was included in the opening exhibitions. The exhibition was of the series of images called Hold Still, collected by the National Portrait Gallery to commemorate the pandemic. It already felt quite moving to look back at this historic time through the 100 images which were chosen and to remember some of the previously unthinkable things that we had to do.

Exhibition at World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment 2022

I was delighted to be able to exhibit my Zoom portraits of climate negotiators at this conference which was held at St Hilda’s College in Oxford in September 2022.

A Portrait of Keble II is launched

After the success of the intial exhibition of 28 portraits which have hung in the dining hall of Keble College Oxford since 2019, the college decided to commission a second set. It has been such a delight to work with many Keble staff, alumni and students to put together this new exhibition, which will be in place until 2024. There’s a website where you can see all the images and stories here: https://portraits.keble.net/ The original portraits will now be hung in the HB Allen Centre, also in Oxford.

Portraits of Niki Mardas on the front page of one of Greece’s biggest magazines.

I was thrilled that these portraits of Niki Mardas, exective director of Global Canopy, were promoted to the front page of K Magazine. This is one of Greece’s most popular magazines and they wanted pictures which communicated that the organisation is based in Oxford but is working to protect global forests. We were very fortunate to be working on a December day, with bright winter sunshine, which gave the opportunity to use the shadows of the trees in Christ Church Meadow, against the ancient wall of one of the colleges.

Climate Change Negotiator Portraits on the Blavatnik School of Government

Timed to coincide with the 26th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, I am showing 12 portraits of Climate Change negotiators - all made on very climate friendly Zoom - on the side of the Blavatnik School of Government. This beautiful buildling was designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron and I’m delighted that they were happy to display my pictures both inside and out.

Zoom Portraits of Vaccine Trial Participants in the History of Science Museum

My vaccine trial participant portraits are currently being shown in the History of Science Museum in Oxford is the oldest purpose built museum in the world, and was the previous site of Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum. This exhibition is part of Photo Oxford and has been accompanied by a display on some nearby street hoardings as well. I’m really enjoying bringing this completely virtual work into the real world.

I’m now an Honorary Member of the Keble Senior Common Room.

I’m not sure if these are things that you are supposed to shout about, but I was thrilled to be asked recently to become and Honorary Member of Keble College Oxford’s Senior Common Room. I’ve always been particularly fond of this college since I made 28 portraits that are hanging from their magnificent dining hall’s ceiling. So, I’m very happy to now have an excuse to go and look at them a bit more often.

Hold Still: A portrait of our nation in 2020

This is unexplectedly exciting news. My picture was one of a hundred selected by the National Portrait Gallery for their collection to remember lockdown in the UK in 2020. They have now produced a beautiful book, which is currently the number one best seller on Amazon.

You can also buy it at Bookshop.org or Blackwells

Remote portrait of Jonathan Dimbleby for BBC History Magazine

It was such fun to work with Jonathan Dimbleby over Zoom to make this portrait. Even though we had every tech hiccup imaginable.

The Thackray Museum hosts Mothers in Lockdown exhibition

The Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds is hosting an on-line exhibition of my photographs of mothers in lockdown, via video chat. This project was commissioned by the University of Huddersfield to highlight the experience of women with school age children during this very strange period of history.

Vaccine Trial Participant Portraits featured in the British Medical Journal

A selection of my Zoom portraits of Vaccine Trial Participants have been featured in the British Medical Journal.

Vaccine Trial Pariticipants Portraits on BBC News

The BBC News site has featured a gallery of my vaccine trial participant portraits and their stories. This also led to a nice feature on BBC South.

Undark Magazine publishes Zoom portraits of former government scientists

I was thrilled to be commissioned by Undark Magazine to photograph 9 former government scientists on Zoom. They all had fascinating and worrying stories about why they had left the US government under the Trump Administration.

The Guardian features one of my Strength and Resilience portraits

As part of Photo Oxford 2020 I created a series of portraits of women from the Gatehouse Charity in Oxford. They were exhibited outside in October and November in central Oxford. The Guardian has published a lovely gallery of images from the festival, the theme of which was Women and Photography, ways of seeing and being seen.

Are We Europe magazine publishes images of Europeans under Lockdown

I photographed people all over Europe via Zoom for this series published in Are We Europe magazine.

Strength and Reslience exhibition is part of Photo Oxford 2020

It was especially exciting to create new work in real life, in this difficult year. The women at the Gatehouse Charity were brilliant and the exhibition outside in central Oxford felt like a perfect way to celebrate their achievements. The Director of the charity said: “Working with Fran has taught me the beauty of photography and the people that I work with, which I didn’t realise that I needed reminding of in such trying times. Fran treated everyone with the same level of respect, awareness and dignity on the photoshoot.”

Lockdown Zoom Portraits are featured on BBC News

The BBC News site has published a series of my lockdown Zoom portraits.

PBS interview me about Zoom portraits