Two people, one van, a camera and a stove
About Shutter & Stove
How a semi-pro photographer and a stubbornly enthusiastic cook ended up living in a Ford Transit.
The short version
I’m Hailey, the one behind the camera and the stove. In May 2027 we gave up the house, the spare room, the airing cupboard and the whole comfortable lot of it, and moved into a van we’d spent the best part of a year converting ourselves. The plan: twelve to eighteen months around the UK and Europe, chasing landscapes worth photographing and ingredients worth cooking. My husband keeps his day job in tech going from the passenger seat, which is what keeps the diesel in the tank.
The name says most of it. Shutter is the photography, landscapes and the small human details of the places we pass through. Stove is the food, honest, unfussy cooking done in a proper galley kitchen, two gas rings and a worktop you could just about land a helicopter on, if the helicopter were the size of a tea towel.
The van
A Ford Transit 350, converted by hand over evenings and weekends and rather more swearing than either of us expected. It has a bed, a kitchen we’re quietly proud of, a surprising amount of storage, and solar on the roof so the laptop and the camera batteries stay fed off-grid even when we’re parked up a mountain with no hook-up for days.
What you’ll find here
- Photography, galleries from the road, and prints if you’d like one on your wall.
- Recipes, everything we cook in the van, written down properly so you can make it too.
- The journal, the longer stories behind the pictures and the meals.
- A map, where we are right now, and where we’ve been.
The films of all of it go up on YouTube, the cooking, the camera, and the daily reality of making a home that does 60 miles an hour. Come and say hello.