About

After I finished art school I sort of stumbled into photojournalism.

With little experience in either journalism or photography I went to the Former Yugoslavia during the war in 1992. This was my first experience of hard news and seemed at the time to be a meaningful way to combine my interests of image making and politics.

Since then I have worked on stories both abroad such as in Iraq during the war in 2003 and at home, for example, as the Labour Party’s in-house photographer during an election. Gradually my work expanded to photographing such things as the new St Pancras International station and working on paid jobs that blurred the line between news and public relations.

Working on news stories was, of course, very interesting, however as time went by my conviction that photojournalism was the ideal form for me started to wane. I began to be more concerned with how to construct images rather than the story they told. As I experimented it became clear to me that my interests lay more in the abstracting and transforming character of photography and I started to make pictures that spoke through marks and forms and lines and the simple repeats, overlays, transformations and translations that I see as part of the essential nature of the photograph.

A little background

I studied Fine Art at Bristol Polytechnic (1984-88) followed by a Postgraduate in Fine Art print-making at the Slade School of Art (1989-91).

I am also co-founder of the agency Troika Photos (2000), the now closed Troika Editions (2009) and Troika Productions (2019).