Photographer Overview
I am a professional photographer and have been all my working life.
I grew up in Sheffield where thanks to regular exposure to Heaven 17, The Human League and Cabaret Voltaire, I developed a taste for music. Good times.
I moved to Nottingham in 1985 and finished a BA (Hons) in Photography at Trent Polytechnic, with First Class Honours in 1988. I started shooting commercially in my final year to help pay for my degree show and on graduating, set up a studio with a friend of mine in Nottingham's Lace Market.
A few [...ok, quite a few] years on and with the experience of working for some well-known and demanding clients under my belt (Paul Smith, Triumph Motorcycles, Yamaha Motorcycles to name but three), I am still developing my own photographic work, both personal and commercial. Practice makes perfect, right?
A large-scale body of work titled 'Edgelands', has already formed the basis of two exhibitions in the Midlands. I act as Business & Legal adviser to AOP members, having spent many years working alongside Gwen Thomas, before she retired from the AOP in 2015.
Until June 2013, I was a non-executive director of the AOP and between October 2008 and January 2011 held the role of Chair. I am also one of the founding group of members of Pro Imaging, another trade body which also protects the rights of professional photographers, and up until 2013, I represented them on the board of the British Photographic Council (BPC). I now represent the AOP on the board of the BPC as well as being its current Chair.