20+ successful years based out of my various studios in London shooting for the major Ad Agency groups around the world. Going back a few years … After studying electronics in The Royal Navy and discovering maintaining gunnery and guided missile systems was not for me, I joined the advertising industry. My first employer was *Collett Dickenson Pearce * where I learnt the basics of producing great ads. (*A BBC documentary called ‘The Men from the Agency’ and well worth viewing).  I then joined French Gold Abbott as an account handler. My love of photography took over and, deciding being the other side of lens was where my future lay, set off on a new career path. I was lucky enough to learn my craft assisting some world class photographers before setting up my first studio just off Oxford Street in the heart of London’s West End.

Learning my craft pre-computer in the days of traditional darkroom printing techniques and film when you had to get it correct in front of the lens before firing the shutter, digital photography has opened up a wonderful Pandora’s box of new working methods. One of them being I no longer need a team of Sherpas to help lug crates of large format camera kit and lighting around, which certainly makes travelling a lot easier and keeps the excess baggage costs down. Even my custom carbon fibre car tracking rig is so transportable it fits into a Mini with oodles of room to spare. It sets up remarkably quickly meaning the possibility of more variations with less fuss.

Over the years I’ve shot all sorts of things, in all sorts of places for all sorts of Clients both in studios and out on location and am equally at home in either. Working with some lovely talented people in some great locations whilst having a lot of fun solving the Client’s problems and challenges along the way.

Driven by my own personal work, I seek to apply this to commissioned work where I can and welcome the opportunity to develop ideas alongside agency creatives. Happy to share my knowledge and experience from a photographic career that spans more than 20 years as I like to work together with with Clients instead of just for them ~ whilst having some fun in the process.

Having been an account man in a previous life, a Client’s attendance on a shoot seeing what’s involved in creating their ads presents me with no problems and on many occasions, can be a bit of a bonus for the Creatives.

With over 2000 commissions under my belt, I’m very proud to say I have never missed a deadline or gone over budget.

Awards include:- Campaign Press & Poster: D&AD: Cannes Lions: New York One Show: The Association of Photographers: The London International Advertising Awards: ISP Awards ~ 2x Gold and Campaign of the Year: MCCA Awards: Marketing Week Awards: RX Club of New York ~ Award of Excellence: OneEyeland World’s Top 10 Black & White Photographers:

Clients include:- Alfa Romeo: Amex: AMVBBDO: BAA: Bayer: British Gas: BT: Buell: Burberry: Chanel: Diageo: Digital UK: Fiat: Ford: Grey: Harley Davidson: Honda: HSBC: Jaguar Land Rover: JWT: Kia: KPMG: Leo Burnett: Lowes: McDonald’s: Motorola: Norwich Union: Novartis: Olympus Cameras: Pfizer: RKY&R: Rolls Royce: Takeda: Tesco: The AA: The Home Office: Toyota: Vauxhall: VW … and more