About Me
How did all this start? Who am I? and Where do I go from here?
How did all this start?
For my 20th birthday my late Mum presented me with a small box diligently decorated with all the typical wrappings. "What's this" was my rather ungrateful response. My skepticism was well founded as the previous year Mum presented me with a screwdriver and the year before that a toolbox. Only God knows why. With a degree of trepidation I nervously unpacked the gift with occasional glances to the smiling Mother. With a perplexed grimace on my face I pulled out a camera. "What!" "What!" A camera. I didn't even want or need a camera. "You can take pictures of my skittle club's matches now" said Mum grinning widely. I have no idea from where she got that idea. That camera was a Praktica MTL5. I still have it. It still works and it started what has became an obsession, a total and complete consuming passion.
Who am I?
Reclusive, obsessive, compulsive, insular, focussed, driven, perfectionist, professional.
Where do I go from here?
Whether its commercial or personal its always the results that count. At least I hope people enjoy my work. At best I would like to photograph for NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC or become a MAGNUM photographer. One day perhaps.
My influences?
Fay Godwin, Leni Riefenstahl, Barry Thornton, Frank Sutcliff, John Clow, Josef Sudek, Alfred Stieglitz, Henri Cartier Bresson, David Hurn, Terence Donovan.
I just hope you like my work as much as I have enjoyed making it.
