I have a tendency to look at the dark before the light. I see shadows before I see sun.
So I wrote about the light to help me with my dark.
Twenty years. Six countries. Paris, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, the Seychelles, New Zealand, and now the soft grey-green fields of Oxfordshire. In every place, in every rented room, the camera was in my hand before the boxes were unpacked. Always, without fail, that.
What those years taught me is this: the most important images are rarely the ones you planned. They are the ones where light and life arrive together - unrepeatable - and someone was paying attention.
I am that person. It is the only thing I have ever really known how to be.
I photograph people, families, makers, artists and brands. I write about light. I teach others to read it not just technically, but humanly. Because once you understand the human experience behind a photographic choice, you stop capturing images and start speaking in light.
My work has been recognised by Nikon New Zealand, Nikon Global and Panasonic Lumix. My book For the Love of the Photograph was published in 2019. A Year of Light as Language is the journey that followed.
We are ambient beings. Light is not just what we photograph. It is how we live.
Tell me your story. I know how to find its light.
The Power of Personal Work
Creative muscle memory is built through return.
I have always anchored on a subject and stayed with it — my children in their early years, our first year in New Zealand, a series of self-portraits, three years of diptychs. Right now it is Great Haseley Windmill.
I return to it through every season, every weather, every quality of light. Not to document a structure — but to practice the art of seeing the same thing differently. To understand what constancy teaches. To discover what only time and attention can reveal.
This is what personal work does. It keeps the channel open.
Every photographer needs a windmill. Something to return to. Something that asks more of you each time.
If you have one already, or want to find one — I'd love to talk.
Let's have a conversation.
