Marcel Proust once said that “the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes” and never has this been true more than today. With a billion images being created every single day, with social media bringing them to all our fingertips, never has a new, a different, vision been more necessary. Do I think I’m the person to provide it? I certainly try to be.After more than 100 countries (and counting), hundreds of assignments - some good and very successful, some unavoidably less so - many international awards and the incredible good fortune of having worked for the amazingly talented and passionate people over at National Geographic, Lonely Planet, Conde Nast Traveller, GEO and many other, I hope my images bring with them a different, more paced, thoughtful, sensitive and truthful approach to storytelling.Using my images to tell a story, I hope to do more than just present a beautiful image, say a close-up portrait or an action scene, I strive for a deeper, more human insight. I hope to sensitise and bring the audience closer to my subjects by drawing them into each image, by asking them to take a breath and look a little closer and look at the entire story. I guess you could say, I hope to perhaps make them a part of these myriads of stories I come across, stories I feel matter and need to be shared. Because I truly believe we - as a species - need this, now more than ever.We need to re-learn how to live together with knowledge and compassion for peoples both near and far, to be sensitive to cultures and customs not our own but beautiful and worth preserving all the same. I want my images to tell the story of a Turkana woman the same way it tells the story of the Malian wood scavenger or a French farmer or a British worker because they are all a part of this amazing, beautiful, infuriating overpopulated, largely polluted world of ours and its people.After more than 30 years with a camera, I would like to think of myself as an adequate, if peculiar and very opinionated storyteller and educator. Currently based in London, I constantly travel the world - either for myself, through various assignments or running a number of educational workshops - constantly in search for these elusive stories frequently obscured by visual and informational noise.I have the honour to have my work represented by Zuma press and featured in dozens of publications across the world.
I frequently get asked what gear I shoot with. Little secret? People say it does not matter, but it does - not massively, but enough. So, for those who want to know, here it is!
I take part in maybe 4-5 competitions a year, not for the awards but for two reasons: to see how my images stack against my fellow professionals and to, hopefully if I win, share my images with them.
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