only for art

I have been a photographer for most of my adult life, and for some chunks of that time I have earned a reasonable living doing it professionally. I then spent ten years running a commercial (corporate clients) video company. These days I run a successful design agency, and I shoot stills for purely artistic reasons - only for the art, in other words. 

Styles: a lot of my work is painting with light; the effects you see here are created with coloured gels, gobos and light projection (use of photoshop here is limited to basic exposure adjustment and cropping to shape). Never any use of flash (I have a fair amount of video lighting and prefer to use that). What looks like natural light often isn't - it's carefully stage managed.

I love shooting landscapes both natural and architectural, but those don't get a lot of love on PP so you won't see many of them in this portfolio. Working with people, nudity and movement frequently feature in my work. I have an ongoing project around those themes. When I take a close up portrait, the person depicted will sometimes be naked even though the nudity is not on show - the vulnerability that entails can help open a window onto the soul. 

I enjoy creating portfolio shots and working on commissions, as well as on personal projects. TFP and collaborations welcomed especially for adventurous newcomers or people branching out into new areas of work.