I’ve returned to my roots, taking the time to re-examine who I am. It seems that at the core of it all not much has changed, I am passionate about pictures and curious about people’s lives.  I have a love for a story that many would consider too ordinary to bother with.

Creatively I felt that I had to look back to move forward. I re-imagined three of my Hull documentary stories from 1983; 19-year-old rag & bone man George Norris, drag artist Kandy de Barry and the drinkers in the old fisherman’s pub, the Star & Garter. I edited and mixed my archive black & white images with newly shot digital colour stills, video, audio and text. This work led to a major joint exhibition and book with documentarian George Norris titled ‘You and Me in HU3’ early 2024.

Following on with what I had learned using a square format Rolleiflex to shoot the story ‘A Portrait of the High Street’ I continue with this pared back approach to documentary photography. I have just finished my story about the Lea Bridge Road in London which is a mixture of environmental portraits and in-depth stories about places the community gather around. The work was successfully exhibited in an outdoor space along Lea Bridge Road in 2025. My book ‘The Potters House E10’ that was part of this exhibition, now published in 2026.  Conscious of the throw away immediacy of social media and the impact AI manipulation has had on believing what is real, I aim to slow the ‘act of photography’ to a trustworthy pace. Despite the feeling that everything seems to be out there all the time, people are increasingly suspicious of photographers. I hope by using vintage film cameras and a variety of ways to present my work, I provide an antidote to this fear and mistrust of images.  I like to think my approach as an opening to a ‘negotiated space’ in which a picture story is told.

As a bit of background, I worked at Reuters for over twenty-five years, first as an international news photographer based in London covering news and sport around the globe, then, based in Singapore, as Chief Photographer Asia, shaping the news coverage of a diverse region. Back in London I managed 'The Wider Image', co-ordinating and mentoring photographers globally to produce in-depth visual stories. Finally, I ran the Middle East and Africa, managing a team of photographers and editors, pursuing sensitive news coverage of a turbulent and often dangerous region.

To sum it all up, I love taking pictures of people, listening to them and visually telling their stories as they would like them to be told.