Here I Am - Live streaming from the Queen's Theatre

For the last month, Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch has been asking its audiences‎ about their experience of lockdown. The Theatre has received over 1,000 responses – online and by phone – each of them by turn, surprising, funny, moving and ultimately full of hope.

The Theatre placed those stories firmly centre stage in its empty auditorium, reflecting them back in a loving patchwork of encounters that share the collective voice of an extraordinary community.

Superstitions about ghostlights allow echoes of former actors to perform in a theatre that’s closed, where the stage is empty. But what happens when one such ghost has been waiting for her much loved audience to return?

This project was my, as well as everyone’s in the team, first live video streaming experience. People were able to attend the Theatre online on one of three evenings only‎ on Wednesday 24, Thursday 25 or Friday 26 June.

Below are some screenshots and also some production stills that I managed to shoot during the technical rehearsals.

Here I Am was devised by Danielle Flett and Douglas Rintoul with music donated by Imogen Heap and sound design by Alexander Broad.

Kaos Live

Kaos’ activity has been suspended after the February edition, as the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic saw all the London clubs shut in March. After 3 months they decided to organise a live streamed, globally accessible event. I joined the team to document this very special instalment featuring sets from Dahc Dermur VIII, Lupus and Proteus with an introductory crash course to the new project - regenerative being.

Do_Gooders Vol 1

I'm excited and grateful to have some of my photographic work shot at KAOS London and Klub Verboten included in DO_GOODERS vol 1. Thank you Paraphilia Collective!

Hold on tight and treat yourself. The publication is available from Paraphilia Collective’s SHOP

Do_Gooders was created as a way to raise funds to support artists, creators and members of the UK BDSM and kink scene affected by the current situation.

This 80-page full-colour publication spans the spectrum of BDSM interests. Included within the 13 articles are photo essays, a one-act play about castration, a report on the UK Fet-Archive by their head archivist and a plethora of other tantalising smutty goodness.

Published by the Paraphilia Collective with contributions from:

@adelebrydges @athene_athene @conorflix @delta_elena @fuckthepost @hamishmacpherson @ladyacss @lukewanderson @oh.francoise @samm_rope 
@stella.polaris @t0Zt0Z @ukfetisharchive @zbigniewkotkiewicz & Shady Sadie