At heart I'm a documentary humanist photographer. But I really like to add strong artistic elements to my images in an attempt to tell bigger, bolder and brighter stories. Sometimes it even works...
I spent ten years building and running the digital side of Sky Movies and it means I understand the images needed to really sell and promote movies and TV shows (and how to shoot those images too).
I also understand about briefs, deadlines, budgets and running creative departments.
Back in the day I was a BAFTA member and chairman of the organisation’s Digital Strategy Committee, steering it from it’s analogue past into it’s digital future. We worked closely with the academy's photography team on digital asset management and distribution.
Further back in the day as a journalist in newspapers, I'd watched the industry move from hot metal to photo and then to computer typesetting.
Then, as a producer in TV news and current affairs, we moved from film to tape and then to digital.
Change is constant and inevitable, but powerful images endure.
As a kid I was obsessed with space travel and just days after I watched Neil Armstrong take his first photograph on the moon, I took my first photo on Winchelsea Beach.
I still love rockets and Leicas…
