40+ Years of Professional Experience …

First Class BA (Hons) Degree in Graphic Design, Camberwell School of Art, London. – Began work with public relations companies, then Reuters News Agency in London as a hard news photographer and picture editor. Spent time in Asia shooting photo stories including ‘The Muslim Fight for the Independence of Mindanao, Philippines’. – 1989, emigrated to Sydney, Australia. Photographer with The Australian newspaper then set up a studio to photograph annual reports for graphic designers, mainly in the telecoms industry. Shot commercial work and annual reports for nine years before returning to London in 2000. Spent a year shooting ports and airports worldwide, mostly in America, as photo-stories documenting the facilities and daily life. – Then, I began working for BAA, owners of Heathrow Airport in London and in 2002, I was responsible for documenting the £4 billion Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 construction project. 6 years of project management and Photography, handing in over 30,000 photographs. – Now, I teach Photography full-time.

Some News Assignments: The Royal Family and Princess Diana over 100 times, 5 Prime Ministers, 17 Foreign Ministers, 11 Heads of States, 6 Presidents, 1 Ex-President, 3 Kings and an Ex-King. I covered everything required, from important funerals to 2 Riots and a Royal wedding. General events and sport such as London Auctions, Portraits, Tennis, Boxing, London Fashion Week, Oil Rig Disaster in the North Sea, Kings Cross Station Disaster, IRA Christmas Bombing, Harrods Bombing. Personalities and bands like Michael Jackson, Wham, Queen. Terry Waite, Oliver Tambo and Benazir Bhutto to name a few. Angolan Peace Talks, a great many Embassy jobs, Band Aid, Film Awards, Bolshoi & Chinese Ballets.