We are a father and daughter based in Devon, brought together by a shared love of the natural world and a desire to photograph it as honestly and as beautifully as we can.

Simon

I grew up in the Brecon Beacons, which probably explains a lot. Wild places feel like home to me — the uplands, the moors, the kind of landscapes where the weather does what it likes and the light changes every few minutes. I walk Dartmoor and Exmoor regularly, often camping overnight, and I find that kind of immersion in a place is what leads to the images I'm most proud of.

I started shooting seriously in the early 1990s, initially focused on wildlife. Over the following decade I became increasingly drawn to landscapes — particularly the wilder corners of the British uplands — and the two have been intertwined ever since. My aim is always to capture a creature or a place in its wider context: not just what something looks like, but what it feels like to be there.

In the late 1990s I spent a year travelling independently through Africa - from the Kenyan highlands to South Africa’s Drakensberg, via the vast plains of the Serengeti, the Mulanje mountains of Malawi, the Chimanimani heights in Zimbabwe, and Botswana’s miraculous Okavango Delta, with little money and a camera. It was pared-back, often uncomfortable, and formative in a way that nothing else quite  has been. The scale of the wildlife, the landscapes, the light — it got under my skin in a way I've never really shaken.

Closer to home, my most productive ground is the landscape and wildlife of Devon and the wider British uplands. The Exe estuary, Dartmoor, Exmoor — these are places I know intimately, and that familiarity shows in the work in ways that a fleeting visit never quite can.

I shoot with Canon mirrorless bodies and a range of lenses from wide angle to 800mm, which reflects the range of what I'm trying to do: from sweeping upland landscapes to a kingfisher on a lichen-covered branch on a Devon stream.

Jemima

Jemima grew up surrounded by someone who thought nothing of getting up before dawn to photograph a landscape or spending an afternoon watching a single bird. That curiosity about the natural world was always shared — it just expresses itself differently between us.

Where I tend toward the broad and the atmospheric, Jemima is drawn to the small and the overlooked. Her fascination began with the invertebrates that inhabited our family garden pond, and her eye for detail — particularly with insects, flora, and the creatures most people walk past without noticing — produces images that stop you in your tracks.

Jemima is currently studying for her A-levels before reading Biology at university, so her contributions here are as and when life allows. But the spirit of this project — a shared curiosity about the natural world — is a shared passion for us both.