Ray Smith started taking photographs at eight years old using an old Kodak Brownie. By eighteen he'd already trained as a black and white printer and developed a preference for large format photography. This resulted in buying a 5 x 4 plate camera and moving to London to further his photographic ambitions. Soon he had worked for David Bailey and was assisting many of the other top editorial and advertising photographers in the country, and taking his own pictures for clients at magazines and newspapers.

He also challenged the widspread misconception at many magazines that photographers should work for free and still does to this day.

He took his 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.

After this period he turned to portraits and following his first exhibition, HEADS, in 1999 traveled to the USA and soon found himself in Hollywood where he diversified his career direction. Photographing actors gave him an entre to the film industry and from there he became a script reader and eventually a writer/director.

Circa 2008 he's running his own production company, Bullet Movies as director/producer/screen writer and still continues with various photographic projects, both commercial and personal.

New photos are posted most days on the blog.