Emily and Ashley’s wedding at The Georgian Town House, Norwich filled me with happiness; their day was full to the brim with love and laughter
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Every moment of Jessica & Dustin’s elopement at Godwick Hall, Norfolk was beautiful, and I’m so grateful I was able to be part of such an intimate and special ceremony
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Friday night marked the end of Norwich Fashion Week, with the highly-anticipated Fashion Excess Show. This show promised to combine live music with the catwalk, which I was super excited for.
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Norwich Fashion Week kicked off last night with The Retailer's Show sponsored by Mercedes-Benz of Norwich. I'd been in touch with Kerry Curl, who is on the social media team of Norwich Fashion Week. She was looking for a photographer to shoot the VIP area, and I happily agreed.
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It's been a little while since I did any portrait or fashion photography, so a few weeks ago I browsed Instagram looking for local models, bloggers, and other people who might be interested in setting up a photoshoot. I stumbled upon Hannah, the owner of The Mermaid Life Blog, and instantly wanted to collaborate.
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On Saturday the 21st of January, I headed to London to take photographs of the Women’s March on London. Around 100,000 people attended to protest against Trump’s inauguration, and fascism in general.
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If you know me, or have ever been around me at an event or holiday, you’ll know one thing about me: I love the Fujifilm Instax Mini camera.
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For Halloween, I was hired to cover the Halloween event at local nightclub Mantra, in Norwich. Here is the final video from the night.
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For my (now) fiancé's birthday, I surprised him with plane tickets to Sweden. It's a country we've never been to before, but with its environmentally-friendly, feminist ethics and its beautiful scenery, it was one I'd always wanted to visit. So I booked us some (very) cheap tickets to Stockholm, the capital city, and off we went.
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On the 17th of September, I photographed Jess & Steve's beautiful barn wedding, which started at Southwold Pier and ended at Wood Farm Barn, Benacre, Suffolk.
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I’ve been setting up photoshoots ever since I was 16 years old and studying photography at 6th form. With an entry-level DSLR in hand and a Model Mayhem account, I started contacting local models and meeting up with them (usually with a friend by my side) to take photographs.
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After relaunching my photography business, I was on Twitter one day and spotted that a local start-up, The Little Horse Box, was looking for a photographer. I immediately registered my interest and was told that they were launching their website, and were setting up a photoshoot in order to get images for their website and press release.
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I was recently hired by Bond no.28 Tombland, a Norwich cocktail bar, to shoot a 6-minute video to play in the background in their bar. I came into the club 3 separate times - once for a Speakeasy Sunday event, and then twice over the August bank holiday weekend.
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As you will know (unless you’ve been living under a rock), it was recently the EU Referendum in the UK. The majority of the UK voted to leave, which is something that I strongly oppose. I voted remain, and I’m proud to say that so did the majority of my city – Norwich is the one single “remain” city in amongst a sea of “leave” cities
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When we decided on the theme for the next issue of Parallel, I instantly had an image in my head of what I wanted the cover to look like. Throughout university, I loved playing with colour in the studio, and making really bright portraits.
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On Monday, I headed to Norwich Fashion Jam to take some photographs. After a 24-hour challenge in which the participants were given access to clothing and scraps donated by Age UK and had to create new garments out of them, the event culminated in a show at Norwich Castle Museum amidst the exhibitions and stuffed animals.
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Today I met up with my good friend Charlotte Lipscombe, who has taken photographs of me and my boyfriend in the past (blog post here). She’s a member of the Parallel team and we’ve collaborated before, so when she agreed to model for me I was really excited!
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A couple of weeks ago, the opportunity came up to purchase a lens I had wanted for a really long time at a massive discount (thanks to my job): the Lomography 85mm f2.2 Petzval lens. The newly designed Petzval lens was released in 2013, funded by a Kickstarter campaign, and is based on an Austrian lens which originally came out in 1840.
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For Parallel's fifth issue, I wanted to interview a local riot grrrl punk feminist band, Peach Club. I met up with them on a chilly, icy day at a local park and got some photographs, before heading into a nearby diner to conduct the interview.
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Born and raised in Chicago, IL to immigrant parents, Marcia X explores themes relating to the experience of the Diaspora, history, feminism, politics and socioeconomic issues.
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