Sam’s work is concerned with people, work, systems, craft and lived experience, particularly the distance between an apparent life and the reality underneath it.

Photography is the centre of the practice. Much of the work sits within Quiet Life, a long-term body of projects about ordinary lives, memory, instability and the things people carry with them. No Fixed Address was made during a period of hidden homelessness while Sam was still working full-time as a mechanic.

The project documents one person’s experience of moving between a car, a campsite and temporary security, without claiming to speak for everyone who has been homeless. The next project, The Albums She Kept, works with photographs made by Sam’s mother.

Sam is preserving, scanning and sequencing the archive, then responding to it through his own photography and writing.

Alongside this, Sam writes about mechanics, cars, labour and workshop culture. Nearly sixteen years of experience in the motor trade gives that work its authority: it comes from being inside the work, not looking at it from a distance.

Sam is also developing speaking and advocacy work around hidden homelessness, employment, housing, stigma and the ethics of telling lived experience. This includes talks, interviews, panels and public.

He is available for documentary commissions, editorial photography, automotive writing, interviews, talks and collaborations concerned with people, work and the systems shaping everyday life.