Josh is currently based in the city of Bristol UK. He works mainly as a freelance editor, but also as a camera man, a photographer, and a range of technical support and design services.

In 2004 Josh created iSophia as the ‘tag’ under which he still works. His strengths come from an interest in developing a breadth, depth, and range of skills and technical knowledge ‘across the board’, so as to give him an all-round perspective on any given project.

Unusually, in an industry where most people focus on developing a particular skill or specific role, he believes that creativity is best served by a thorough knowledge of a wide range of technical skills.

Josh’s greatest interest comes from his imaginative work with video, particularly creating and manipulating combinations of moving and still images within both linear and non-linear narratives.

As a child he was fascinated by watching his father painting, particularly by the way images developed layer upon layer with each step in the process modifying or extending the previous one. The result was always a wonderfully rich image and Josh’s concern is with a similar imaginative richness, but without loosing sight of the qualities of the original source material.

With projects such as Forgotten Homecoming he is particularly interested in attempting to focus on those aspects of history which he feels are frequently overlooked. We are often fed facts and figures, shown photographs and artefacts from the past, but in most circumstances the viewer is given no emotional information. In Forgotten Homecoming the focus is on creating an emotional attachment for the viewer, so as to increase the viewer’s perception of a sense of place and identity.

Josh’s own creative work has largely been focused on producing images of evocative environments through which a narrative is suggested, rather than on traditional linear narrative. He is currently looking for opportunities to test this approach in educational and historical contexts.

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