I was born in Enfield, London on Christmas Eve, 1978, and since then have lived in Ilford, Hastings, Manchester and Kington, Herefordshire before moving to South-East London. While studying French I spent a year living in eastern Quebec, Canada, where I began to pursue landscape and wildlife photography. I also worked as a naturalist in Forillon National Park, giving tours and talks on the varied Appalachian wildlife and illustrating plants and animals for teaching displays. My experience in visual art began with painting, drawing and calligraphy, and I still occasionally practice watercolour illustration, mostly of natural history subjects. Below is an ink illustration of Brockwell Hall made for a set of christmas cards.

I have always taken a great interest in observing and studying wildlife as well, and the two disciplines can both lead to improved powers of observation and visual analysis. I have since studied the technical aspects of photography through reading, practice and the help of other photographers, but having a practical background in art is a definite advantage.

I also find myself calling on science when tackling photographic challenges, and when working outdoors an understanding of physical meteorology and even astronomy can be put to good use in predicting how the elements of a landscape are likely to behave and when unusual phenomena may occur.

Even in portraiture a good knowledge of optics is useful in understanding the different qualities of light seen both in everyday life and in paintings. This makes it easier to acheive effects that come more naturally to painting than photography, and helps to expand the possibilities of the medium. The application of science in my work is not, I hope to the detriment of other considerations, and indeed a large part of my motivation in making images is purely aesthetic. However like all crafts, photography benefits from discipline and theoretical study as well as artistic instinct.

Besides photography, my principle interest is music. Most of my current work is as a jazz pianist, but I am also a composer and have a background as a harpsichordist and cellist.

My recent non-jazz projects include suites of canonical and contrapuntal music for small ensembles and quartets.

While a lot of the time music and photography serve as breaks from each other, I do have a particular interest in photographing musicians, not only because I feel an additional connection with my subject but also because musical instruments make for excellent objects to incorporate into portraits.

My other interests include writing, theatre, Indian cuisine, and linguistics. I currently live with my girlfriend and a group of old friends with whom I frequently collaborate in art projects.

I have a degree in French.