About Me
In the mid eighties, when I left School, I literally walked across the road and got myself a job as a Production Assistant at the National Film & TV School. After a wonderful couple of years there, the opportunity arose to travel and I grabbed it. I bought the biggest backpack I could carry(!) and left the country to see if I could find what I was looking for...
To say that I have had a colourful life would be an understatement, I ended up travelling for over 13 years, but I shall try and get to the point and make it relevant...
Whilst modelling in Tokyo, I casually showed my travelling snaps to a fashion photographer that I knew. He was gobsmacked. He told me that I was the best untrained photographer that he had ever met and gave me his old fully manual camera to teach myself. (a NIKON FM2, if you’re interested)
I concentrated on photographing the cultural side of each country I visited. I worked consistently as a photographer’s assistant whilst in Australia and I put on an exhibition of my photos from India on a stint back in London. I was taken on by a slide library, which was encouraging, but it soon started to dawn on me that an ideal job of being sent out to the far reaches of the globe on travel assignments just wasn’t being realistic.
Friends were starting to settle down and have babies. I jumped at the opportunity to photograph their glorious bumps with a hope that I would become ingrained as their family photographer, documenting each child’s birthday. The only trouble was I still had another ten years of travelling in me.
I decided to take a job on a cruise ship as a photographer. That way I could visit the friends and places that I loved and to have the practical experience of working with hoards of very difficult customers with nowhere to hide! I learned so much in those two years, portraiture, printing, and selling. I also worked my way up through the team from the bottom to assistant manager.
Whilst on the cruise ship I met a worn out wedding photographer, with twenty-five years of experience, who promised me a job when I came back to land. He paid me terribly, but I saw it as an invaluable apprenticeship.
Suddenly something had ‘clicked’, (excuse the pun!)
I loved the adrenaline buzz of the weddings, knowing that there was no second chance. Suddenly I knew that I had found what I had been looking for. At last I could settle down.
I now live in South East London with my partner and have two lovely children, another due in January 2012 and two mad siamese cats.
I continue to photograph ‘bumps’, babies and family portraits in a location of your choice and will travel far and wide for a wedding!
Give me a call.
To say that I have had a colourful life would be an understatement, I ended up travelling for over 13 years, but I shall try and get to the point and make it relevant...
I concentrated on photographing the cultural side of each country I visited. I worked consistently as a photographer’s assistant whilst in Australia and I put on an exhibition of my photos from India on a stint back in London. I was taken on by a slide library, which was encouraging, but it soon started to dawn on me that an ideal job of being sent out to the far reaches of the globe on travel assignments just wasn’t being realistic.
I decided to take a job on a cruise ship as a photographer. That way I could visit the friends and places that I loved and to have the practical experience of working with hoards of very difficult customers with nowhere to hide! I learned so much in those two years, portraiture, printing, and selling. I also worked my way up through the team from the bottom to assistant manager.
Whilst on the cruise ship I met a worn out wedding photographer, with twenty-five years of experience, who promised me a job when I came back to land. He paid me terribly, but I saw it as an invaluable apprenticeship.
I loved the adrenaline buzz of the weddings, knowing that there was no second chance. Suddenly I knew that I had found what I had been looking for. At last I could settle down.
I now live in South East London with my partner and have two lovely children, another due in January 2012 and two mad siamese cats.
I continue to photograph ‘bumps’, babies and family portraits in a location of your choice and will travel far and wide for a wedding!
Give me a call.