I was born in Guildford, England, in 1962. I studied Photography at Goldsmith’s College in the mid-1980s, under the tutelage of Nigel Perkins and Ian Jeffrey. It was here that I learned of the power of the photograph to communicate abstract ideas to a wider audience. This has proven especially useful in my political and environmental photography.
After college, I worked as a Trainee Printer in a professional darkroom in Clerkenwell, printing for Brian Griffin, amongst others. At this time, I also worked as a freelance photographer for various music papers (including Sounds) and also did promotional photography for Channel Four, Lewisham Council, trade publications and record companies.
My career path then changed and I became a Video Editor, but never lost my passion for photography.
Becoming a Freelance Editor over the last couple of years, I am able to once more dedicate the time needed to concentrate on my photography. The work you see here was all generated in the last four years or so, and covers my political and environmental concerns, as well as my interest in buildings and living spaces, both in their physical appearance and their effect upon the people who live and work within them. This interest has resulted in exhibitions and fresh commissions, the results of which are featured here.
The first, which I have called The Riverside Project, was for The Town and Country Planning Association. The TACP is Britain’s oldest environmental charity and the pictures were taken as part of an exhibition on sustainable development, held at The Mall Galleries. The second section features just some of the photographs I took for the book 'Britain's New Towns - Garden Cities to Sustainable Communities' by Anthony Alexander, recently published by Taylor and Francis. Finally, I was asked to take publicity stills for an exciting new Designer Bar in South London, called Star Bar One.
I am also fascinated by human interaction, particularly the behaviour of people when they are unaware that they are being photographed. The best examples of this may be seen in the ‘Month of Sundays’ and ‘Citizens’ section of the site. I do not seek to make the ‘man in the street’ look stupid or ugly, just to take an ordinary moment of time and, through photography, freeze it and make it extraordinary.