A very warm welcome!  Thanks for visiting my website.  Its purpose is to exhibit my expanding collection of photographs and writing.  I sincerely hope you enjoy the content and it triggers positive new thoughts and ideas.

Bio:  I was born in Cleethorpes, a small coastal town.   We moved to Ipswich when I was three and I enjoyed an idyllic childhood in rural Suffolk before returning to Lincolnshire in the late 1960s.  After working for two enjoyable years in the laboratories at Findus, a frozen food company, I returned to full-time education to study Food Science and Technology.

I began keeping a journal at the age of nine in 1966, and enjoyed writing essays.  Having received money for my eighteenth birthday in 1975, I bought a camera and started making photographs.  I soon developed a keen interest in all things photography.

After qualifying, I married at the tender age of 21 in 1978 and moved to York to work for Rowntree Mackintosh plc.  During my time with Rowntree’s and later with Nestlé (who bought Rowntree’s in 1988), I travelled extensively for work and pleasure, and further developed my photographic and writing skills.  I remarried in 1996 and together with my new wife, raised two wonderful children.  Time flies!  These children have now matured into amazing adults, found partners and had children of their own.

After a career spanning thirty-eight years in Technical, Production, Marketing and Sales, I left in 2014 to concentrate on travel, photography and writing, while still enjoying time together with my growing family and friends.

Purpose:  I’ve since ‘labelled’ myself as a photographer and writer.  Neither has been a profession nor a hobby, but after so many years of practice, both have become a way of life.  I seem to have an innate need to fix moments and express my emotional response to them, enabling return, reexamination and sharing.  Journaling and Life Writing allow me to communicate things that cannot be expressed visually.

I am not interested in creating facsimiles.  I am not a documentary photographer, simply recording precisely what I see.  I want to encapsulate feeling and resonance, as well as my personal experience and memory.  Such capture requires all the subjective decisions necessary when making a photograph and utilising whatever post-processing techniques are needed.

Whenever possible, I prefer participation as well as observation.  Participation amplifies the experience and enables access.  Family, friends and people encountered have become particularly important. When travelling abroad, I photograph and journal to articulate observations and responses to novel topographies and the societies encountered.   Fundamentally, the heart of my work focuses on the human condition and what it has been like to live, love and grow old in this rapidly changing epoch.

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