Bio
As a kid I grew up seeing photographs of a high standard through my father’s career. He spent much of 1960′s and 1970′s as a highly respected tunneling engineer on major engineering projects such the Sao Paulo metro and London’s Victoria Line. He was often responsible for shooting his own progress images within his role as Chief Surveyor and so around the house and in our home darkroom I would always see large format prints of subjects that at the time I didn’t really appreciate. I feel that this constant exposure to a high standard of work set the bar at the level which I still pursue in my work today.
In the late 1980′s I developed an interest in photographing motor racing through a friend who was racing himself, and would therefore spend evenings pouring over the pages of books and magazines studying content, backgrounds and detail. This new enthusiasm, together with soaking up my father’s photographic knowledge, combined to create the only professional objective I’ve ever had – to be a photographer.
My first published work appeared in small circuit guide in 1989 and the rest, as they say, is history. Over the last 20 years I’ve maintained a consistent link to the automotive industry and worked over 50 cities around the World. My work has been published commercially by clients such as Mercedes Benz, SEAT, Peugeot, Volvo and Nissan. Editorially I’ve worked on assignments in America, Asia, and all over Europe for magazines and PR firms large and small.
Then… a few years ago I was asked to shoot a wedding for a close colleague and amusingly I’d spent quite a while avoiding such coverage in ignorance of just how rewarding it could be. I went through with the commission and to my great surprise really enjoyed it, to the extent that I began to encourage similar work. This change of attitude was the spark which ignited a whole new and very challenging area of photography for me and as a result my automotive work has been gradually lessened to allow the wedding commissions to form a larger part of any given year. Coupled with the emerging demand for ‘lifestyle’ portraiture it’s taken me in an unplanned direction which has led to a much more varied and enjoyable body of work. I’d forgotten what it was like to work for people, not companies, and receive direct and genuine feedback without having to squeeze a reaction from an obscure department within a large corporation, which is/was very frustrating.
And that’s where I am today. If you get a few minutes have a look at my constantly updated portfolio and tell me what you think…
