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Commissions

Documentary work made on film, in colour. Three strands: a working interior practice, the grass and the hard court, and strangers who were not asked to pose.

A studio, observed

Deslyn is a design practice in Earlsfield founded by Sarah-Jane Allen, who worked under Martin Brudnizki, David Collins and Elicyon before opening her own room. A pink Brinsmead piano anchors it. Abstract canvases line the walls, and they are made on the floor of the same room they end up decorating.

The work photographs the studio as a space rather than a client: materials, surfaces, the hand at the table, the paint drying behind the curtain.

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The Deslyn studio interior, designer at work among materials, canvases and the pink piano.
Fabric swatches gathered in a wicker basket.
An interior mood board of sketches, colour swatches and reference images.

Reportage

Wimbledon, Queen's Club, Flushing Meadows

Frames from the grass and the hard court, made from the stands. The appeal is not just the tennis. It is that everything around it has been groomed to within an inch of itself: the ivy clipped, the crowd dressed for it, the flowers replaced before anyone sees them wilt.

The sequence runs from the gate to the last walk off court.

Two servicemen in dress uniform standing either side of the ivy-framed clubhouse entrance.
The gate
A clock set into a dense ivy wall above a window box of petunias.
Ivy and clock
Crowds filling the grounds in front of the ivy-clad Centre Court building on a bright afternoon.
The grounds at capacity
Centre Court during a match, the grass striped and bright beneath a full house.
Hurkacz and Djokovic, Centre Court
A player walking off a grass court with her bag over her shoulder, umpire's chair behind.
Elena Rybakina, Queen's Club
A ball kid tossing a ball to a player on a hard court in low evening sun.
Aryna Sabalenka, Flushing Meadows

Unposed

Three strangers, none of them directed. Included because a camera behaves differently when nobody has been arranged in front of it.

A man in headphones standing outside a bright pink café front in Notting Hill.
Notting Hill
A woman reclining on a wooden bench under planting, smiling toward the camera.
High Line, New York
A woman working at a food counter, seen through glass clouded with steam, a neon sign glowing behind her.
Behind the glass

Working together

Commissions are taken for interiors and architecture, editorial and press, and documentary coverage where the subject can be left alone. Everything is shot on film and delivered as hand-edited scans, with prints and enlargements available from the archived negatives at any point afterwards.

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