I love the variety of my work and I’m happy shooting any subject, but more than anything else I love photographing people. Portrait and reportage photography have been the common thread through all my work… even the food shoots.

I fell in love with photography when I was fifteen. At seventeen I got my first ‘proper‘ camera and shortly after that my bedroom was blacked out with bin liners and converted into a darkroom. For a long time it was just a serious hobby, but a couple of years after leaving University I decided to take it more seriously and moved to London to work as a freelance photographers assistant.

Working mostly with music and portrait photographers I got to assist on shoots with all kinds of people, from the Spice Girls to Pulp, and after a few years I started to pick up jobs of my own. There were a few music shoots and celebrity portraits, but I found myself increasingly taking on lifestyle and food shoots. This wasn’t particularly the plan, but I loved it, and found myself working on numerous food books with well known chefs, as well as being sent all over the world shooting food and travel stories.

But I also found oppurtunities to work with life science organisations and medical charities and these have always been my favourite shoots. Often challenging, both technically and emotionally, but always rewarding, they’ve given me the chance to meet and work with some of the most extraordinary people I’ve ever met… often in extraordinary circumstances too. Spending six hours documenting an awake brain surgery for Barts Hospital Charity is definitely a career highlight.