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I have always been a great believer in the old Punk maxim of "do it yourself" and this approach has characterized my entire career from day 1. I started in the business working for most of the photographers I'd read about when I was at school and once I'd made up my mind, and the appropriate phone calls, I was soon assisting the likes of David Bailey, Robert Erdman, Annie Leibovitz, Rohn Meijer, Roger Charity, Herb Ritts, Steven Meisel, Guy Bourdin, Albert Watson, whose clients were often Vogue, Elle, Harpers and ID.

I took my first pictures of models through Synchro Model Agency's Jonathan Phang and Storm Models founder Sarah Doukas as well as Models One and TakeTwo Management and began specializing in fashion and beauty work shortly thereafter, employing large format polaroid, gum bicromate, wet plate collodion glass plates and film.

After this period I turned to portraits and following my first exhibition, HEADS, in 1999, traveled to the USA and Hollywood where I diversified my career direction by photographing actors. This gave me an entre to the film industry and from there I became a script reader and eventually a writer/director.

Long story short: Circa 2010 I avidly continue with many photographic projects, both commercial and personal and am always on the lookout for people to photograph.

New photos are posted most days on the blog.

I also run my own production company Bullet Movies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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