Educated at North Halifax High School and Queens' College, Cambridge (History), Laurence is an award-winning journalist, photographer and, more recently, a television reporter and producer. He was awarded an MA with Distinction in Photography at Falmouth University in 2022 and was named one of the UK and Ireland's emerging photographic talents by Source Magazine in September 2022. Recent personal projects include childhood trauma and maternal abandonment. He is currently working on multiple projects, including Unclaimed, which explores the fractured intersections of place, possessions and personhood in relation to unidentified human remains. His interest in photography began early at the age of six. He watched his father working in a make-shift darkroom (the spare bedroom of their semi-detached home on the Isle of Wight) and revelled at the magic of film development and printing. At the age of six, his father declined to buy Laurence a Canon A-1. So, he made one for himself out of Lego. And won a prize. Laurence likes to believe this was in some way a photography award. Those around him know that was not the case.