About

The creation of images has always been at the very core of what I do.

It’s the result of an innate and overwhelming desire to make things look pretty. Photography has been an integral part of this for just about as long as I can remember.

Way before my earliest dabblings as a Web designer, I had fallen in love with the power of the photographic image and everything that went with it. Drawn like a moth to a flame by that tantalising, effervescent energy found only in the studio, and the meditative atmosphere of the darkroom, this has been a passionate affair that has lasted a lifetime.

At one stage, I was utterly convinced that my future lay as a fashion snapper, and while working in London, also took on a wide range of editorial and advertising commissions. I’ve been incredibly fortunate to meet and collaborate with some truly incredible individuals in the aerospace and defence, PR, local government, travel, motorsport, hospitality and beauty sectors to name but a few.

Over the years, I’ve always sought to put something back in to the industry that I love. This has taken several key guises: I’ve been the founder of a series of small (but always sold-out) digital conferences and meet-ups that have brought together some of the leading lights in the field, as well as break new talent on the speaking circuit. Then there have been invitations to help promote others, including the insanely wonderful Silicon Beach – sunny Bournemouth’s annual two-day advertising technology extravaganza.

I’ve also helped train the designers, developers and entrepreneurs of the future as a qualified Further and Higher Education lecturer. In short, all of the above have been nothing other than an immense privilege and the hugest of pleasures.

For kicks, I get a massive buzz out of travel (it really does broaden the mind you know), and come the winter months, you’ll more than likely find me up a mountain somewhere, attached to two planks of wood and trying to get down it as best I can. Music has always been a massive part of my life, as has cinema, art and literature, and my downtime usually involves immersing myself in as much of it all as humanly possible.

I’m currently based between the coastal cities of Chichester and Portsmouth, particularly wonderful spots in southern England, and ones that aren’t a million miles away from London or Brighton or other key centres in the region. That said, location should never be a barrier to new opportunities, so travel won’t ever be an issue for the right projects.