ABOUT

REINDEER MOSS PHOTOGRAPHY

My medium format camera holds a roll of film with just ten negatives. A slow, peaceful practice - it acts as a partner to moments of deep immersion in nature.

With a therapeutic background, I’m often mulling over how what we see and experience impacts our individual and collective human nervous systems. Like many, I’m drawn to the beauty and wisdom of the natural world and feel it is a particularly potent way to find balance and harmony.

Reindeer Moss Photography is my way of synthesising these ideas. A form of antidote to the fragmentation in the world and a way to imprint the gentle guidance within natural places.

Thanks for visiting. Please feel very welcome to get in touch if you have an enquiry.

Jac

  • Creative

    Creativity has always been a part of my life, in work terms encompassing an earlier period in independent commercial photography practice, time as an artist studio holder, college photography tutor, periods as visiting photography lecturer and six years as creative course leader in an alternative curriculum setting for young people (ages 16-18). In 2007, I undertook a Masters in Photography at The University of The Arts, London, where my explorations around instinctive human behaviour in pattern making, continued to evolve around human physical and psychological encounter with nature.

    Therapeutic & Pastoral

    In 2011, my personal photography practice ran in the background whilst I undertook personal development and professional training in Psychotherapy and Counselling at The University of Leeds. Overall, I have thirteen years cumulative experience of conducting: one-to-one therapeutic sessions; specialist mental health mentoring; facilitative pastoral sessions; cultivating safe group environments; co-creating individual and safety plans; multi-disciplinary team working and liaising with external agencies.

  • Reindeer Moss Photography

    In Winter 2023/4 I was delighted to be awarded an Arts Council England DYCP (Develop Your Creative Practice) grant; a significant step in renewed focus upon my photographic practice. Whilst I ceased direct mental health and support work in 2023, therapeutic principles are integral to my arts practice and Reindeer Moss Photography venture, which I launched in Jan 2025.

    I am currently expanding my photographic practice into collage, using my black and white nature archives alongside new imagery as the raw material for upcoming mixed-media explorations.

  • UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS, LONDON

    Master of Arts Photography

    UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, UK

    Postgraduate Diploma Psychotherapy & Counselling with Distinction

    Certificate Counselling Skills & Theory with Distinction

    Joint Honours Degree Media & French

    SHIPLEY COLLEGE, West Yorkshire

    Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector (PTLLS)


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    Below is selected professional development previously undertaken:

    Participatory Photography Facilitation PhotoVoice, Introduction to Art Therapy BAAT/Lliwio Art Therapy, SPELL Autism Training National Autistic Society, Gender Identity & Health (trans and non-binary awareness) Leeds Recovery College, Honour Based Violence Karma Nirvana, Suicide Prevention Summit Mental Health Academy, Professional Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - Counselling Certification Staff Skills Training, Overcoming Anxiety & Panic Attacks OSMHN, Working with young people with challenging behaviour in the outdoors J Cree & Where the Fruit Is.

  • I undertake some small design projects for independent therapeutic practitioners and socially focussed artists. If you are interested in bespoke websites or the design of posters, flyers, leaflets etc., find out more here‍.

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