It all started when I brought my camera along for an agency summer party back in 2011. I spent the day and evening taking photographs and drinking. The next morning rather hungover, I edited a set of the best mages, put them onto the network and sent out an email with a link. In this act an agency tradition was set that would last for the next 7 years.

For the rest of my time at the agency, I documented the summer and Christmas parties as well as leaving drinks. This event / reportage style of photography was something I hadn’t done before and over the years I found a love for it.

The morning after the night before, along with the trickle in of hungover employees and the provision of bacon sandwiches, my editing of the party photographs

and emailing of the link; followed by ripples of laughter at various silly images and by the replacement of Facebook profile images with my images.

This became something of a documentary project. A combination of portraiture and Martin Parr style social observation, but in black and white. These images were used within the agency in a mosaic form as the starting slide for the monthly agency meetings. This body of work became a part of agency lore.

On leaving the agency in 2018, my leaving card was my portrait made up of all of the portrait and party images that I had taken over the years. And that was the end of the project.