Luke Toulson

Luke-Toulson

From Luke Toulson’s website – In 2007 he won the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year and played Captain DJ the CBeebies show, Space Pirates.

From 2008 to 2015 he performed annual stand-up shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, and it was in Edinburgh in 2015 that I photographed him.

Nick Hall

Nick-Hall

Nick Hall is a comedian. He appeared in his solo show ‘Dodecahedron’ at the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe and I photographed him at the Fringe that year.

He was member of the sketch group The Three Englishmen, and he has written for television and radio.

Amy Lee

Jasp-Amy-Lee

She is one half of a comedy duo that goes by the name Morro and Jasp. She is Jasp.

Photographed at the Edinburgh Fringe summer 2015

Michelle

michelle

At the time I photographed her she was working in a cafe in a small town on the south coast of England.

It wasn’t until I started working on the photo that I saw how she had bound back her hair with that barrette and how it added to the image.

Lou Sanders

Lou-Sanders

According to Chortle, Lou Sanders is a surrealist comedienne who has written for Channel 4’s Stand-Up for the Week and BBC3’s Laughtershock. Her Edinburgh debut was in 2011 with her show How to be Awesome: An Introduction.

When interviewed in 2014 for The Latest, and asked among other things what her ambition for the rest of 2014 was, she said she was just trying, one day at a time, not to get pregnant.

Photographed at the Edinburgh Fringe summer 2015