A Life Lived
Through the
Lens
About Me.
A career that began with a chat with a science teacher, a piece of paper in a tray of chemicals and the magic of an image appearing in front of my eyes!
I'm married to Sally, and between us we have three grown-up children, plus Ozzy, our beloved labradoodle who ensures there is never a dull moment. Family is everything to me, and it shapes the way I approach every wedding I photograph. I know what it means to stand where you are standing. I know what these images are for.
The newspaper industry changed enormously in the years leading up to 2015. Digital technology, shrinking circulations, and tighter budgets meant the need for staff photographers diminished significantly. Rather than lament that change, I embraced it — and diversified into the kind of work that lets me apply everything I have learned to subjects that truly matter to the people involved.
Based in Wiltshire, I cover weddings and commercial work across the South West, including Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Gloucestershire and beyond. I am also happy to travel for the right project.
A career that began with a piece of paper in a tray of chemicals is still going strong. The technology has changed. The love of the image hasn't.
Where It All
Started
I was fourteen years old, trying to work out which subjects options to choose at school, when one lunchtime I wandered into the science department. I had a very quick conversation with a science teacher who was busy teacher's classroom. He was a quiet man — not someone who said much. He was offering photography as a subject, and I didn't know a single thing about it.
He didn't explain it. He didn't lecture me. He simply took me into the darkroom, placed a piece of paper in a tray of chemicals, and waited.
1983 - Aged 18
Indentured Press
Photographer
Began my formal apprenticeship as an indentured press photographer on a local weekly newspaper in Berkshire — learning the craft properly, from the ground up, under the rigorous standards of regional print journalism.
1987 - 1998
News Agency
Photographer
After completing my apprenticeship, I spent several years working for news agencies across Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Birmingham — building a national portfolio of images covering breaking news, sport and major events across the country.
1998-2010
Staff Photographer, Local Daily Newspaper
Images That Made the
Front Page
Over three decades of press photography, my images appeared in national newspapers and publications across Britain. From breaking news to royal coverage — here is a glimpse of that body of work.
Career Highlights
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Press Awards
EDF South West Press Awards Photographer of the year winner 2011
Short-listed for Photographer of the Year, UKPG Awards 2003, 2006, 2009, 2010
Short-listed for Sports photographer of the Year UKPG Awards, 2005, 2008
Short-listed for Photographer of the Year EDF South West Press Awards 2008, 2009, 2010,
British Press Photographers Awards 2009 - One of the best 150 press pictures of the year chosen from over 7000 entries in the UK
Short-listed as part of the EDF front page of the year awards. 2007, 2009, 2010
Winner, Photographer of the Year, Wiltshire Press Awards 2005
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My Portfolio
My Portfolio
I began my career in press photography at just 18 years old, stepping into newsrooms at a time when every frame had to count. Over the following three decades, I worked my way through the ranks of British regional journalism, developing an instinct for the decisive moment that simply cannot be taught.
In 2015, after 32 years in the industry — the final years spent as Picture Editor of a local daily newspaper in Wiltshire — I turned that hard-won expertise toward the thing that matters most to the people I photograph: their wedding day.
Since then, I have covered 25 to 30 weddings every year, bringing the same calm authority, compositional skill, and sensitivity to light that defined my press career to every couple I work with.
