Biography / Curriculum vitae
I was born in Manchester, England, UK in 1973 and lived the early part of my life in Zimbabwe and then the United Kingdom. I learnt photography at high school and studied it a A-level along with a Radio & Journalism City & Guilds course at college.
I have been a professional photographer since I left college in 1991. This was of course, the pre-digital era and I have an extensive archive of monochrome negatives and colour slides dating back to the late 1980s.
I have spent some of my career as a foreign correspondent for US, Canadian, English and Scottish newspapers and written for many magazines, including The Economist, The Daily Telegraph, The Scotsman, The Sunday Herald, The Guardian, The Miami Herald, The Globe and Mail, The Christian Science Monitor, The Scot's Magazine, The Daily Record and the Gemini News Service.
Most of the time I have been a photojournalist as well and since 1990, I have had my images used in UK newspapers like The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The New Statesman & Society, New Internationalist, The British Journal of Photography, The Independent, The Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, The Sun, The Daily Record, The Scotsman, The Miami Herald, The Panama News, The Tico Times, The Globe and Mail, Country Life, BBC FOCUS, BBC Wildlife, Cathay Pacific Magazine, Frontiers, The Scot's Magazine, The Sunday Post, De Zeit, Trouw, The Miami Times, The LA Times, Vistazo, The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, The Observer, Newsweek, TIME Magazine, Elsevier, The Daily Mirror, The Daily Express, The Nautilus Telegraph (formerly The NUMAST Telegraph), The Sea, Lloyd's List, The Journal of Commerce and many others. In recent years, my work has appeared a bit on the web sites of many of the UK newspapers mentioned above.
On occasion, I have freelanced for various international news agencies like Gamma-Liaison, SIPA Press, Sygma, Corbis-Sygma, Reuters, the Associated Press (AP) and Agence France Presse (AFP). I have also been a long time contributor to Avalon (formerly UPPA/Photoshot) and TopFoto.
I've worked in a variety of locations throughout my career, including most parts of the UK, Cuba, Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, the USA, Colombia, Spain, France, The Netherlands, Turkey, Tunisia, India, Nepal (including over a year in the Mount Everest region), Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa and Portugal, where I am currently based. These days I produce a variety of news and stock images and HD video stock footage clips.
I have been a professional photographer since I left college in 1991. This was of course, the pre-digital era and I have an extensive archive of monochrome negatives and colour slides dating back to the late 1980s.
I have spent some of my career as a foreign correspondent for US, Canadian, English and Scottish newspapers and written for many magazines, including The Economist, The Daily Telegraph, The Scotsman, The Sunday Herald, The Guardian, The Miami Herald, The Globe and Mail, The Christian Science Monitor, The Scot's Magazine, The Daily Record and the Gemini News Service.
Most of the time I have been a photojournalist as well and since 1990, I have had my images used in UK newspapers like The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The New Statesman & Society, New Internationalist, The British Journal of Photography, The Independent, The Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, The Sun, The Daily Record, The Scotsman, The Miami Herald, The Panama News, The Tico Times, The Globe and Mail, Country Life, BBC FOCUS, BBC Wildlife, Cathay Pacific Magazine, Frontiers, The Scot's Magazine, The Sunday Post, De Zeit, Trouw, The Miami Times, The LA Times, Vistazo, The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, The Observer, Newsweek, TIME Magazine, Elsevier, The Daily Mirror, The Daily Express, The Nautilus Telegraph (formerly The NUMAST Telegraph), The Sea, Lloyd's List, The Journal of Commerce and many others. In recent years, my work has appeared a bit on the web sites of many of the UK newspapers mentioned above.
On occasion, I have freelanced for various international news agencies like Gamma-Liaison, SIPA Press, Sygma, Corbis-Sygma, Reuters, the Associated Press (AP) and Agence France Presse (AFP). I have also been a long time contributor to Avalon (formerly UPPA/Photoshot) and TopFoto.
I've worked in a variety of locations throughout my career, including most parts of the UK, Cuba, Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, the USA, Colombia, Spain, France, The Netherlands, Turkey, Tunisia, India, Nepal (including over a year in the Mount Everest region), Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa and Portugal, where I am currently based. These days I produce a variety of news and stock images and HD video stock footage clips.