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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), I would spend the morning editing the images from the night before and email out the link.

What followed would be a ripple 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, using flash to capture animated colleagues in hyper-real sharpness. These images were used within the agency, most often in mosaic form as the starting slide for the monthly agency meetings. This body of work became a part of agency culture.

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.