ENTRY DESCRIPTION
I have wanted a dog all my life and my 4 year old Cockpoo has certainly changed my life for the better. I have made many new dog walking friends and this image is part of a series that questions the notion that dogs look like their owners. This was put to the test by a psychologist at the University of California by photographing dogs and their owners separately and asking a group to match the two which they did with reasonable accuracy. However maybe it's just the fact some dogs seem to appeal more if there is a resemblance to a family member . Whatever this series also celebrates the special bond between owners and their dogs.

AUTHOR
I am a Brighton based Fine Art Photographer and artist whose work explores representations of location, sexuality and identity. I work across many genres such as portraiture, landscape and short experimental films. My work relies on a personal sense of visual language through the use of metaphor, atmosphere and sensitivity.

My film 'Chance Encounter' used original photography to explore what is allowed to cross that divide between the outside and inside of the body and how it informs our notion of self and identity with a specific reference to how gay men have that boundary violated by culture through miss-representation.

I was a Senior Lecturer in Photography at London Metropolitan University and was the Post Graduate Organizer for the Department of Art, Media and Design. I wrote an MA in Photography which was successfully validated in July 2007.

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