This work has emerged from returning to the same questions over time…
Field Notes talks are reflective, image-led presentations designed for camera clubs, galleries, arts organizations, and educational institutions interested in photography as a practice of attention, responsibility, and relationship to place.
Rather than focusing on technique or gear, these talks explore how photographs are made — the decisions, pauses, and ethical considerations that shape images long before and after the shutter is pressed. Each talk combines photography, writing, and quiet reflection, and can be adapted for public audiences, artist talks, or institutional programming.
What to Expect...
Field Notes talks are:
- Visually grounded and thoughtfully paced
- Reflective rather than instructional
- Attentive to ethics, place, and presence
- Designed to invite conversation, not deliver conclusions
Audiences leave with:
- A deeper understanding of photographic practice
- Shared language around care and attention
- Questions they can carry back into their own work
Talk Descriptions may include ...
Photography as Attention
A reflective talk on slowing down photographic practice and learning to see before photographing. This presentation explores patience, restraint, and the often-invisible decisions that shape images.
Care & Ethics in Documentary Photography
A thoughtful examination of ethical presence in photography, focusing on responsibility, consent, and the choice not to photograph. This talk invites audiences to consider care as an ongoing practice rather than a checklist.
Editing and the Stories Images Tell
A talk that reframes editing as a continuation of seeing rather than a process of selection. This presentation explores how meaning emerges through patience, sequence, and restraint.Field Notes talks draws on documentary photography, reflective writing, and place-based practice to explore how attention and ethical presence shape creative work. Talks may be arranged in person or online.
She Only Lives Once
Solo is a Field Notes talk on travelling the world as a woman and the quiet, radical practice of learning to trust yourself. Rooted in noticing, this talk explores what it means to move through unfamiliar places with intention, discernment, and care, letting go of certainty while staying deeply present to intuition, risk, and responsibility.
Rather than romanticizing travel, this conversation holds space for the ethics of movement, self-trust as a learned practice, and the ways solo journeys can reshape how we listen to place, to others, and to ourselves. It is an invitation to slow down, pay attention, and consider how freedom, safety, and self-belief are negotiated in motion.