HI WE’RE SAM + BECCA

HUSBAND + WIFE. PHOTOGRAPHERS. ARTISTS. BEST FRIENDS. 

We met at a gig that Sam was playing in London in 2014 and have been basically inseparable ever since. So much so that we formed a band and created Pebble and a Fish so that we could spend more time together. 

We love to laugh until our stomachs ache and spend a good percentage of our days doing just that. 

We’ve ended up becoming multi-hyphenates in every sense of the word, but we wouldn’t have it any other way, we just like to create in whatever form that takes.

We sometimes end up going out of the house accidentally wearing the same thing and one of us has to go back and change (this happens more than we’d like to admit).

We can easily be bribed by good coffee and croissants.

We believe in kindness above all else and we try to incorporate that into everything we do.

One of our favourite things to do is travel. Before we got married, we put our stuff in storage and spent the better half of a year travelling around the UK, mainland Europe, the States, sleeping on sofas and getting lost down city streets.

We love living within 10 minutes of the beautiful Peak District in England and hope to one day have a little country home with some rockstar chickens named after our favourites - Bob, Joni, Jimi, David, Mick, Keith, Patti and Bruce… and a cat… we’re not sure how those two dreams will work together, but that’s the beauty of dreams right?

this is sam

Hello, I’m Sam

I’ve been taking photos for as long as I can remember. I started shooting on a Kodak Graffiti at age 5. I’ve progressed a little since then (and so has my equipment) but I still have my first camera.

I studied Contemporary Fine Art at University with a focus in photography. Growing up, I loved shooting on film cameras. From pinholes to polaroids to the old minolta I still take travelling with me today, film is where I feel most at home. Some of my favourite hours were spent in the darkroom, developing my craft and my own photos, watching as nothing became something in the red light. Over the past few years, I’ve moved more into digital photography and my work has been featured in publications including The Independent, Wired Magazine, and Time Out London.

When a camera is not around my neck, a guitar usually is. As a musician and singer-songwriter, I’ve been making, performing and releasing music since my early teens. Music has taken me on some wonderful adventures and has helped to feed my wanderlust. Some of my favourite travels include driving down Highway 1 on the West Coast of the USA and wandering the silent foggy streets on a winters night in Venice.

I enjoy journeying, not just arriving. I wrote my dissertation on the idea of a journey. I still need to take the journey I wrote about… it was all one big metaphor… I’ll tell you about it sometime.

If I was stuck on a desert island with only four records (and some kind of apparatus to play them on that magically survived whatever event that stranded me on the island) they would be ‘Blood on the Tracks’ by Bob Dylan, ‘Blue’ by Joni Mitchell, ‘Graceland’ by Paul Simon and ‘Born to Run’ by Bruce Springsteen.

My favourite author is Paul Auster, there’s not many I haven’t read. My favourite poet is Dylan Thomas.

I have a great memory for random historical facts. When I was touring the UK, it would become a running joke in the van as we entered new cities … “What happened here Sam?” Try it. I’ll always be able to to come up with something. However, my ability to retain information only stretches so far… give me more than two items to buy on a grocery run and I’ll need a written list.

My desk is well organised and my art drawer is messy. I like to colour outside the lines, both with painting and projects.

That being said, I can be a stickler for symmetry. I’m the one secretly straightening coasters at a dinner party. I know it’s weird. I can’t help it. 

this is becca

Hi I’m Becca.

My journey with photography started in front of the camera. I’ve worked as a model and an actress for over a decade and at some point during that journey I started to become curious about life on the other side of the lens. I love this aspect of what I do - taking photos, telling stories, creating memories, capturing love, and being able to do it all with my favourite human makes it that much more awesome.

What I’m most captivated by are people’s unique stories, what makes them tick, their hopes and dreams, their quirks and perfect imperfections, and that fascination works it’s way into everything that I create - images, films, writing, art, songs. I firmly believe every single human’s life could be a movie. I sometimes look out the window on bus rides and train journeys and try to write them all. 

At some point, you’ll probably ask where my accent is from. The truth is I have no idea anymore, somewhere mid-atlantic? I was born in London, grew up in a small town in Virginia, moved back to London and now live in Sheffield. It’s very confused… as is my sense of direction. Sam often laughs at how many times he can take me to a place and I’ll still have no idea where I am. 

I’m a big fan of music from the 60’s and 70’s. Sam and I often spend our weekend mornings curled up by the record player with a cup of coffee. 

That being said, I did walk down the aisle to Fleetwood Mac’s Everywhere and my go-to karaoke songs are either Don’t Stop Believing by Journey or Pour Some Sugar On Me by Def Leppard. So… maybe a bit of 80’s too. 

When Sam and I were first dating, he asked if I wanted to go back to his place and make paper aeroplanes. I thought that was some kind of a weird Sheffield euphemism… but he actually wanted to make paper aeroplanes. To this day, we write all of our love notes to each other on paper planes.

I feel happiest when I’m surrounded by nature. The past couple years I’ve become more and more interested in sustainable and regenerative living and figuring out how we can live more in harmony with this magical planet. Earth is cool.

I have a little dot in the centre of my nose. It’s either a blue freckle or an accidental tattoo acquired when I was 13 years old. Its origin remains a mystery, but I’ve kept tally of the amount of people who have tried to wipe it off over the years.

I love animals. If I wasn’t doing this, I’d most likely have a farm, or a wildlife sanctuary. With otters. Lots of otters… and a llama.

Wedding Photos Courtesy of Anneka Seraphina // Lake District Photos Courtesy of Nicola Dixon