Publications and clients

My work has been published in a wide range of publications and used by PR and corporate clients.

For example:

Features have been published by:

Focus Magazine

Diver magazine

TNT magazine

Outdoor Photography Mag

Ahlan Wasahlan (in-flight magazine) etc.....

and photography has been used by:

T3 magazine

Show House magazine

British Journal of Photography

Taylor Woodrow

Westminster City Council

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council

British Canoe Union

Arrowcraft

Westminster Boating Base

etc.....

Click here to see a selection of tear sheets

Qualifications

BA (Hons) Graphic design specialising in illustration and photography

HSE scuba (part 4)

Teaching

An experienced photography tutor, I have taught BTEC photography in London colleges such as WAES and have also taught photography to special needs students at Photoworks.

BSoUP

Member of the British Society of Underwater Photographers (BSoUP)

QEST

In 2005, I was awarded a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship (QEST) to do a HSE-approved commercial scuba diving course (part 4) with the Underwater Center at Fort William in Scotland.

See Divernet for more information:

www.qest.org.uk

The beginning

In the 1980’s, following a BA (Hons) degree in Graphic Design and Illustration at Kingston (UK), I worked as a photographer's assistant for John Suett at Project Photography, a large studio in central London, photographing still life, advertising and catalogue work. A year later I began working as a photographer for Operation Raleigh (now Raleigh International). Here I produced photography for PR use and photographed Raleigh’s candidate selection weekends around the UK. This culminated in photographing a three-month Raleigh expedition in Guyana’s rain forests in South America, photographing the jungle interior, the Amerindians, wildlife, landscapes, expedition projects and ‘venturers’. Upon returning to the UK I began working as a freelance photographer.

I am a professional freelance photographer, photographing aquatic locations from a unique and often dramatic perspective by using diving and kayaking skills. I work with Nikon DSLR cameras in an Ikelite underwater housing to photograph underwater portraiture and sports in swimming pools to split level and underwater photography in UK rivers, lakes and seas. I also produce illustrated features for magazine publication and work any where required worldwide.

Underwater photography

HSE-approved commercial scuba diving qualification (part 4). This qualification is a legal requirement for any paid underwater work using SCUBA equipment in the UK - including underwater photography.

I am registered with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) as a Diving Contractor.

Kayaking

Access to otherwise inaccessible locations.

Twelve years ago I took up kayaking and developed a love and knowledge of watery places and my photographic work became increasingly involved in nautical subjects.

Being an experienced white water canoeist and former division one slalom competitor, I am able to use kayaks to photograph locations that would otherwise be inaccessible.