JO UNDERHILL / STRUCTURALEYE

    During the first lockdown in March 2020, the 20th Century Society started a small project on Instagram asking people to pick their favourite C20 detail. I was thrilled to be asked to contribute and after much thought I decided to pick the iconic precast concrete 'diamonds' of Welbeck Street Car Park as my favourite detail from a twentieth century building. It soon picked up momentum and at the end of the year the project was published in this wonderful book celebrating details from all kinds of architecture and design from all over the world. Being one of the fifty contributors is fantastic. I'm hoping it introduces more people to the wonderful Welbeck design which is sadly now gone and other fabulous designs from this great era of architecture. For more details please visit here .

The Lookout is a new cafe, hide and facilities situated behind Holkham Beach, North Norfolk. It sits beautifully within the landscape of Holkham which includes sand dunes, pine forests and looks out to a beautiful nature reserve. It is a cylindrical form with the outer screen of fins made from Larch. It was a beautiful structure to photograph and I wanted to highlight the conversation it has with the landscape and those big skies of North Norfolk. It was designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and Lucas+Western Architects. The whole project can be seen at structuraleye .

Lovely to see the beautiful St Teresa's Sixth Form Centre designed by IF_DO Architects which I photographed last year recently featured on Dezeen. The whole feature can be seen here .

Last week I photographed the wonderful Sound of Silence. It is a site specific exhibition between painter Alessandra Taccia and ceramicist Akiko Hirai in the beautiful St Peter's Church, Cambridge in conjunction with Flow Gallery , London. The exhibition groups the work of two different artists working in different mediums but exploring the same themes, the idea of pausing, looking and the connection between object and environment. A moment to stop time. The church has a wonderful calming energy to it and the artwork looked as though it was a permanent fixture within the church. It was an amazing project to photograph and so lovely to work with the artists and Flow Gallery. The whole project can be viewed here and the exhibition runs until 12th May 2018.

Last week I had the great pleasure of being interviewed by Archinect an online publication that aims to bring architects and designers together. I spoke about my processes and thoughts on architectural photography. To read the whole feature please visit In Focus .

I'm really pleased that my new photography project Ode to Welbeck has been featured on the brilliant online design and architectural magazine The Spaces. Earlier in the year they wrote an article on my ongoing Beautiful Brutalism project and have been great champions of my photography. To read the article and find out a bit more about my thoughts behind the project and my photography please visit The Spaces .

A few weeks ago between the 11-17 April it was National Gardening Week and to celebrate RIBA Collections looked through their collection of architectural images and chose different images daily that highlighted the relationship between architecture and gardens. I was thrilled to see one of my images of The London College of Fashion terrace by StudioWeave was chosen by Wilson Yau. The complete article can be seen here and all the photographs from the whole project can be seen on my website .

At the beginning of this month I had great pleasure working again with ceramic artist Amy Jayne Hughes photographing her new work which will be exhibited at London Design Festival and Britsih Ceramics Biennial . At the moment Amy is undertaking a residency at the V&A Museum and the ceramics workshop was the backdrop to the shoot which was a great space to photograph in and highlight the new work. The work explores the idea of the handmade with the 'factory-made' so we wanted to set the ceramics in-situ to where they had been made. It was a great shoot and I always really enjoy collaborating with Amy. The London Design Festival runs from 19-27 September and the British Ceramics Biennial in Stoke is on from 26 September - 8 November.

I am pleased to announce that prints of my work are now available to buy through TheHub. I have a selection of photographs from my on going Beautiful Brutalism project available to buy from my gallery here . A selection of my architectural photography is also available from my print gallery .

This month Ceramic Review magazine has had a 45th Anniversary redesign and looks great. There is a really interesting feature on ceramicist Helen Beard which includes a portrait I took when I visited Helen in her studio in Craft Central, Clerkenwell. It was lovely meeting Helen and the shoot was really enjoyable so it's great to see my portrait being used. The layout of the feature is fantastic and my portrait really compliments the detail photographs. I still love it when I see my work in print!

This month is was great to see my photograph in a lovely new book by Oliver Dupon , Encore! The New Artisans which profiles over seventy artisans who craft handmade objects. The book features ceramicist and illustrator Amy Jayne Hughes who I have worked with as part of Manifold . I photographed Amy at work in the studio and below you can see the image used and the image in the context of the book. It's great to see my photography in such a beautiful book and so pleased it has a great feature on Amy who is a fantastic artist. To find out more about the book please visit Thames & Hudson Publishing.

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of meeting and photographing Eric Landon and Karin Blach Nielsen of Tortus Copenhagen. I visited their beautiful studios in the heart of Copenhagen and the images from the shoot can be found here. Tortus Copenhagen Website

theprintspace have just uploaded a video from the Private View with some of the artists explaining their work. Definitely worth a look - VIDEO The exhibition is also coming into it's last week so if you're in London take a look!

 On Thursday night the Private View for Sample 13 at theprintspace took place in London. I had a great evening with a fantastic turn out and it was lovely to share the experience with friends. I also got to meet some of the other exhibitors and talk to them about their work. I always love finding out what other creatives are up to and the exhibition had such a great mix of styles and themes it was really interesting to find out more about the ideas and history behind the images. To see more photos from the night and more information about the exhibition please visit theprintspace blog and for more information about the artists involved you can get an information pack here. Thanks again to theprintspace for all their help and a fantastic night and to Christine Santa Ana for curating the show and giving me the opportunity to be part of such a great and diverse exhibition. The exhibition runs until Tuesday 30th April 2013

Recent work from a personal project on Rootstein Mannequin Studio, London. The whole project can be viewed here.

I am very proud to have been selected to be part of this year's Sample 13 exhibition, a group show of artists and photographers that are clients of theprintspace , London. The exhibition displays fresh new artists/photographers and comprises of an exciting selection of work from Kyler Zeleny’s Canadian landscapes from his travelogue ‘Out West’ to the self portraiture of Jocelyn Allen in the series ‘The Many Faces of JFA’ to the delicate illustrations of Holly Sharpe and the whimsical skies in Sinem Mucur’s work. My 'sample' is from the series Beautiful Brutalism , which is an ongoing exploration of Brutalist architecture from around the UK. The exhibition runs from the 5th - 30th April 2013, 9-7pm mon-fri and admission is free.

Last Autumn I photographed ceramicist Edmund De Waal's new site specific installation at the new Alison Richard Building on the Sidgwick Site of Cambridge University. The work consists of three vitrines filled with porcelain, sunk below the paving outside the building. The work makes you stop and look, to take a moment before entering the building. I found the work really interesting to photograph and when the light hit the installations it really highlighted the different colours and shapes of the porcelain. The whole project has been added to my website and can be viewed here. Some images have also been added to CRASSH Pinterest board here.

On Monday 10th of December the results of this year's Morpholio Eyetime Competition was annouced. Unfortunately I didn't win but my project got an honourable mention which was fantastic. To see all the results please visit - Morpholio Results

This week I received news that the photographs I submitted to the Morpholio Eyetime 2012 photo competition have been shortlisted, which is fantastic news! I entered 3 images from my Beautiful Brutalism project which got through the first stage of the competition. To view my photos and vote please visit Morpholio . Thanks.