The first photograph I remember taking was when I was 10 on a family trip to Venice. As my memories of the trip have faded and the original photograph lost years ago, the recollection of this first photograph that captured the stunning symmetrical Venetian architecture overlooking a canal is still fresh in my mind.
This trip sparked my passion for photography, and by end of my time at school, I’d managed to adapt most of my art projects into photographic projects and studies. I went on to study Photography at Stourbridge college and then a BA in photography at Falmouth College of Art in Cornwall, gaining my degree and graduating in 2002, although I started shooting commercially in 2000 just a year into my studies.
A move to London was inevitable after completing my degree, where I gained my first major editorial commission by Frame Magazine to shoot the new Selfridges store in Manchester, Quite a drop in the deep end! From then on my journey into photography has been a consistently interesting and challenging one and I still shoot regularly for Frame Magazine and Selfridges even after all these years.
I’ve found myself shooting in some unusual places. From capturing images of vast carparks, standing on a bridge on the M40 (after stopping my car on the hard shoulder) to peering down the middle of an active volcano in Chile with my Hasselblad.
A lot has changed since my Venetian introduction into the photographic world; I’m a lot taller for one. But some things never change and I am still looking at the world through inquisitive eyes. My passion for architectural and interior photography has been spurred on by influences such as Sze Tsung Leong, Alec Soth, Andreas Gursky, Candida Hofer, Mark Power and Edward Burtynsky. These inspirational photographers have not only fuelled my excitement for pushing my creative and technical abilities, but inspired my work into wider arenas of fine art photography, portraiture, installation and of course architecture and location.