Where the Twinflowers Grow
This project began as a personal response to years of feeling on the outside — moving between countries, never quite fitting in, and carrying a quiet question about where I truly belonged. Over time, I realised that belonging wasn’t something I could wait to be given — I’d have to grow it for myself, and maybe grow it with others too.
Photography became the way I explored that question. Not through perfect images, but by creating spaces where people could meet without pretence — where gestures, silences, and small rituals might say as much as words.
It asks one question:
How do people belong if they are not told how to belong?
Every belonging starts somewhere.
Maybe yours starts here.
The twinflower became my guide. Rare and delicate, it survives only in scattered pockets of the Highlands. To me, it speaks of the kind of belonging that is hidden, fragile, and yet deeply resilient — the kind we nurture quietly, in unlikely places.
My process is part wandering, part conversation, part play. I use a drifting guide to uncover the emotional landscapes people carry: walking, talking, and listening for what’s unspoken. Then, through portraiture, still life, and landscape, I work with film, symbolic objects, and simple acts that invite presence rather than performance.
If you take part, we might walk somewhere important to you. We might photograph an object that feels like home. Or we might sit together in a place you’ve never noticed before. There is no script — only curiosity, collaboration, and the chance to see what roots might take hold.
If you are based in the Highlands, I’d love you to be part of Where the Twinflowers Grow.
Everyone who takes part will receive a print of their portrait as a keepsake.
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