I was first exposed to light in Somerset in the southwest of England. Thirteen years later I discovered photography whilst experimenting with a pinhole camera made from a coffee tin. To this day, I am still reminded of the magic of photography and my enchantment watching my first print develop before my eyes each time I capture a fleeting reality.

Having studied photography at Somerset College of Art and a further three years at the Medway College of Art in Kent, I inevitably became an assistant in London. During a period of eighteen months, I assisted several influential photographers before realising I was unemployable and becoming freelance at the age of 20.

My earliest work consisted of editorial commissions working on location for magazines before life threw me into the studio as a commercial problem solving photographer. Today, I balance the contrived discipline of the studio with the freedom of travelling with my camera and connecting with people who I portray as I find them in their own environment.

The panoramic camera projects the natural perspective of the curious roaming eye. Black and white comes closer than colour to reality in some remote communities of the developing world where there are fewer shades of grey separating the path between life and death.