Fashionistable, London (2026)

09/10/2025

Tonight is the night of the 40th awards.

This is my finalist image in the Sports section and is called -

I Can Fly:

When living in London I would sometimes see people seemingly fly down the escalators as they par-cored their way to the tube platforms. And was always in awe of their ability to do this and their seeming fearlessness whilst they flew towards their destination.
So when I saw this team of riders on their motorbikes doing something similar but with a motorbike. That almost letting go whilst in flight I was mesmerised.
For me it’s magical and had great fun catching the mid flight.

Thank you

Congratulations to all the other finalists and good luck tonight.

09/10/2025

Today is the day of the 40th awards.

This is my finalist image in the Environment section and is called -

Plastic Fashion:

Over 70% of our clothing is made from fossil fuel derivatives, from crude oil. The same stuff that fuels cars, lights fires and contributes to global warming. We wear it next to our skin and the toxic chemicals which leech from it disrupts our endocrine system. Every time we wash it, it sheds millions of micro plastic particles which end up in our oceans and in marine animals. It’s even in the water we drink and the fish we eat. But this is not just a fashion problem, it’s a problem for humanity and the planet.

Thank you .hocking

Congratulations to all the other finalists and good luck tonight

08/10/2025

This is my documentary finalist series in this years awards

Gabi – Living With Parkinsons:

This series is part of an ongoing project I am shooting with Gabi. Last year he had an Deep Brain Stimulation device implanted to reduce a symptom of Parkinsons called Dyskinesia which makes the body move around a lot. The op was a success. Recently we have noticed that Gabi’s face has become very mobile, is this a Dyskinesia symptom sneaking back in or something else. As yet we don’t know.

Thank you

07/10/2025

It is always a great honour to be a finalist in the awards. So I am thrilled to say that I am a finalist again this year. The work has made it through in 3 sections: in the documentary section with a series of images from an ongoing project, Gabi - Living With Parkinson’s. In the environment section with an image that is a comment on the plastic in our clothing and the effects that wearing it next to our bodies has on our health.
And an image in the Sports section, for fun.

It is also especially poignant to be a finalist this year as it marks the 40th year of the awards, which takes place in London this Thursday the 9th October.

The work of the all finalists is exceptional. has been posting galleries of all the images. Go have a look and be inspired.

Feeling all the FOMOs as I won’t be there this year. Wishing everyone success. We have made it this far which is a great achievement in itself. 🤩

03/10/2025

Mary Creagh CBE, Labour MP for Coventry East •

Shot as part of the RPS Women In Photography 40% Project: Celebrating Women in Parliament.

It has been a great honour to be part of this monumental moment in time and to photograph for it.

The work Mary does aligns with the direction my own work started to take in 2019.
In 2018 Mary was the Chair of the House of Commons Audit which looked at the sustainability of the fashion industry, producing the Fixing Fashion Report.
She is woman ahead of the curve.

Mary is now Parliamentary Under Secretary of State - Minister for Nature.

You can see the rest of the story and the work of all the wonderful images for this at
ros.org/groups/women-in-photography/the-40-project and for now via the link in my bio.

05/06/2025

So now that our Inspirational Woman Justine Aldersey-Williams documentary is live what does the future hold.

“…me making a pair of jeans…was all to create an incentive for the synthetic dye factories in this region which churn out so much virgin fossil fuel every day who cause so much harm, to change…to get to this point of saying, (to Fibershed members) now you have a factory you can have your wool dyed in, which means you can now participate fully in being, regenerative and being part of the Fibershed movement.”

“I am now growing woad, and organic British Indigo with my Fibershed collaborator Mark Palmer, who’s a Soil Associate Inspector and we’re growing at a large organic farm that supplies Riverford Organic in North Yorkshire. Trialling the upscale, of what we started in the project”

“… for commercial upscale you need farming expertise daily. The farm we are growing at is brilliant and the waste from that production powers the National Grid.

“There’s a lot of work being done around sustainability and the word regenerative is bandied about a lot, but I really feel Fibershed are setting the benchmark with great integrity, without greenwash.”

Our interview in full can be found via the link in my bio.

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29/05/2025

It takes a lot of different skills to create a garment. Skills we had before consumerism and after 30,000 years have lost in only a couple of generations. Here Justine talks about the skills needed to make the first ever pair of jeans created in the UK.

“To make the jeans, I did a spin-off project…I needed to learn to spin. That learning really takes years and years of practice…it takes 10,000 hours to learn a skill.”
But Justine had one year to create her prototype.
“I practised on vintage flax called Berta’s Flax. Berta’s Flax is flax that was handed down from dowries in Austria. compromised and produced the weft from Berta’s flax and used Charlie and Helens flax for the warp. My spinning teacher spun the warp and I hand spun the weft. I was going through every single seed to cloth skill but making some compromises because I wanted a pair of jeans to exist at the end of the process…it took me nine weeks spinning 3 hours a day to spin the weft.”

Weaving • “I had the funding to begin to learn to weave...what I thought was weaving, was only the tip of the iceberg. Weaving takes place before weaving starts, it takes so much prep. Even threading the loom takes so much time and skill.”

As a supported weaver • “Six days in, we were demoralised, our backs were broken from threading and rethreading and both Carole Bowman and Ali Sharman tirelessly supported me.”

“Amazingly though I had had some lessons with a weaver I’d met only two weeks before…So I handed the weaving over to Kirsty Leadbetter.”

Sewing • When it came to the sewing, I knew there was someone I wanted to be involved with, Mohsin Sajid. He is a jean, producer but also a denim historian. I went to his place thinking; he can pattern cut and I will sew. When I got there that thought changed to, we’ve got one day here, these are his machines, they’re vintage, I’ve never touched them, I would need a day to practise if I wanna let my ego to kick in and do it myself. You know what, no, again let the person do what they do.”

“And we have the first pair of jeans, it now exists.”

Full interview 🔗 in bio.

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16/05/2025

As we continue our story with Inspirational Woman Justine Aldersey-Williams we take a step into the past.

J: I’m reading a book called ‘Women’s Work, the first 20,000 years. Women clothed humanity. And at times in history we had a lot of power because of that. But now for me, trying to spawn this new equitable regenerative textile system is challenging, because that work has never been valued in terms of a capitalist monetary system, it’s always been done for free or traded or exchanged. So what happens when you’ve offshored all that skill to enslave people? Also, now that we’ve had this so-called, women’s liberation movement how do you then find the value in it? I’m a creative woman and I’m still not paid properly for the work I’m doing, proportionately, financially, it’s tricky. We need new ways of thinking around this.

With all my interviews the lead question is where did you grow up?

J: “I’ve been in beautiful places, predominantly West Coast, The West, the old Celtic lands if you like, like St Ives very on the edge. The beautiful rolling hills of the Vale of Clwyd in North Wales, where my school was…I didn’t really get on with city life. I like the elements, the fresh air.

Mum and dad were working class Scousers…aiming at being upwardly mobile, putting their kids through private school and going bankrupt in the process. But they put my brother and I in these beautiful schools. Mine was founded by the Worshipful Company of Drapers…looking back, I see our art department was phenomenal. The whole top floor of the school was devoted to it. We had a whole room of weaving looms. We had a sewing room, a photography room a life drawing room, a screen-printing room. That was normal for me and a massive influence…we had speech and drama lessons, meditation lessons and I was taught yoga really early on.”

Since then Justine said “There are not a lot of alternative practices I haven’t tried.”

🔗in bio for interview in full

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12/05/2025

Today is a big day day for our Inspirational Woman Justine Aldersey Williams. Justine is a botanical textile dyer and educator. Her practice is is totally in tune with the environment and nature. She is the Director of Home Grown Colour, Founder and coordinator of Northern England Fibershed and iniatiated the Home Grown, Home Spun regenerative textile project, the documentrary of which premiers this evening (12th May 2025) recording her journey as she creates the very first ever fully grown pair of jeans in the UK. It covers everything from seed to sewn garment. She is also helping develop the commercial uscale of British indigo from organic woad. This is a great journey I am sure you will enjoy her story.

08/05/2025

Today marks the actual VE Day 80 years ago. But people have been celebrating the end of WWII all week. These are some of my images from the 80th VE Day celebrations at Wyverstone Village Hall.

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