About

When I think back, photography has been a part of my life ever since I was a child, proudly using my Boots 110 Minigrip film camera to document military vehicles on Southsea Common. Little did I know then that 40+ years later I would still be doing pretty much the same thing, just much further afield, and using far more expensive equipment.

I guess it was inevitable really, as another enduring memory from my early days was spending hours looking through the shelves of magazines in WH Smith (the ones I could reach, anyway). Not only can I still remember the unique smell of all those alluringly glossy periodicals, but there was a definite visceral pleasure from handling them, flicking through the pages, and greedily ingesting the visual feasts that transported me to worlds I could only dream of at the time.

Later in my teens I bought my first SLR, a secondhand Ricoh (which I still have to this day), and I guess that is when you might say that the journey really began, especially after having spent the summer after university in the US, where my eyes were opened to the notion that taking photographs for a living was actually a viable career.

Not long after getting back to the UK however, those ideas seemed fanciful for a lad from Portsmouth, who didn’t do particularly well in art class, and despite still indulging my passion on the side, it wasn’t until I moved up to London in my thirties that the dream finally became reality.

After working in Malcolm Ryan Studios, located just behind the old Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium, for the best part of a year, I then made a leap of faith and moved to freelancing, eventually working with a wide variety of well-established, and award-winning photographers on everything from football shoots for Nike, to food shoots for M&S, and for editorial, advertising, and commercial clients alike.

Cars were a staple for me though, having gained a decent grounding in lighting at the studio, along with both contacts and experience in this particular niche, and I was fortunate enough to spend most of my time travelling to some astoundingly beautiful and special locations, with a multitude of amazingly talented and passionate people.

After a few years, my growing interest in motorbikes landed me work with Paul Barshon, and a long working relationship and close friendship ensued, eventually taking me to the US where I lived for six years, and stills naturally led into motion work.

Having left LA in 2021, I now I live in West Sussex with my partner, an enormous box of Boots colour prints, and a neurotic, yet charming, Red Setter named Emma, and whilst technology has come a long way since the days of 110 cartridge film, my drive to shoot, colloborate, and be involved in the creation of high-quality, engaging, emotive imagery is still as strong as it ever was… and I can’t imagine life any other way!