About me

paper. pixels. ink.

I've always been drawn to stories. Stories about people and places. I started as a print journalist at a regional paper where we still had a printing press connected to the newsroom. Saturday’s paper was the big one, which meant the print run started while you were still working away at a story. It also meant that shortly after filing a late, breaking story, you could walk out the back and see it coming off the press and get ink on your fingers as you read an early edition. Good times.

If I go back further, I can trace my love of storytelling to childhood. I recall long car trips to see relatives listening to tapes of the 1950s BBC radio play, The Goon Show, featuring the comic genius of Messrs Milligan, Sellers, Secombe and Bentine. Almost 20 years ago I picked up my first camera, a Pentax if I remember correctly, and shot a few rolls of film while travelling Europe.

Since then I've always been drawn to both the words and pictures. My first job was at a regional newspaper, and we’d often have to take our own photos. So, I went and bought my first serious camera, a Canon DSLR, and a flash. I’d use it from time to time for work and took it with me on travels.

During the pandemic, I found hiking and photography combined to help me find an outlet for my creative side. I love the process of photography and where it takes me. Japanese landscape photographer Toshio Shibata said, “For me, photography is a way of exploring the unknown, of going to places that I have never been before and discovering something new”. I couldn’t agree more.