Things have been so busy that I forgot to celebrate a work anniversary! This autumn, marked 35 years of professional photography!
It’s amazing to think that I started my career in 1989! My first newspaper was the Ealing Gazette. Such a special place that to this day I’m lucky to keep in touch with great friends and colleagues from those days. Full of fond memories of getting my first break thanks to the chief photographer Stan James.
The last 35 years have been primarily as a photojournalist, adding corporate, commercial as well as short film making as the decades continued.
It’s a job I absolutely love and cherish. Still getting an immense buzz from that gut feeling of knowing one has captured a good photograph, as the shutter button is released. I’m thankful that I still get that creative rush from seeing a publication and getting client feedback.
This photograph was made five years into my career; trusty Nikon FM2, Leica M6, press card and a Domke photographer’s vest!
It’s astonishing to realise I’ve been published in practically all the world’s main newspapers, picked up a World Press Photo award, the British Press Awards Photographer of the Year title and get exhibited in around 90 countries; something the 19 year old me would never have fathomed!
Thank you to everyone along the way who has made this such an immensely wonderful career.
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