Me
Born in Doncaster, UK. Attended schools. First job was as a BMX rider doing shows, competitions and riding in the Krone, Gt. Yarmouth Hippodrome and Blackpool Tower Circuses. Then I worked as a Skateboard & BMX photographer before drifting off into publishing and new media. In 2001 I moved to Norway and worked briefly for a photo agency before returning to freelance photography full time. I have irregular flirtations with higher education and like racing vintage cars and playing real tennis. So far I have lived in Retford, Gt. Yarmouth, Blackpool, Huddersfield, Stony Stratford, Leamington Spa, Lincoln, Newark, Oslo, East London, Stamford & Vaxvik. I now live in Oxford.

Photography
It's greatest asset as a medium is that it allows so much room for spontaneity and randomness: provided you have room in the frame to let it happen. I just love the sort of pictures that you could not imagine would have existed until a fraction of a second before you take them. The sort of pictures that you could never ever take again because they would be impossible to set up. The ones that you would never want to take again anyway.

The pictures come mostly from everyday life: they are just graphic responses to the situations I end up in. This way of working is certainly nothing new but it is the way that really appeals to me and it seems exactly what photography is best suited to. I like reading about wandering, derive, psychogeography and flaneurism as well as actually doing it but I have no desire to totally understand it, because understanding it might then spoil it.

There is often a place, or an area, that I start my photography in. The colour, themes or similarities in the pictures which might define them as a project, or body of work, come later during the editing. The editing can only begin when I feel I have photographed something enough, or have moved, or got bored. How the images are eventually going to be presented (if ever) does not concern me during the period when they are being taken. My immediate environment here in the UK is the place that interests me most in the whole world right now.

It has been pointed out to me that there are often two views or angles in some of my pictures. I am aware of this and did read somewhere that ‘Gemini Dogs’ (the apparent result of my birthdate under both the western and chinese horoscopes...) are constantly trying to decide between two different options and then delight in choosing both of them at the same time. This might explain some of composition of the pictures. I will always struggle to keep a tight or consistent style because going out shooting without a plan inevitably means that I encounter a range of inconsisten situations - but it seems a shame not to try and photograph it all...