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I'm a lucky man! I came into reportage photography in the 1960s, which was something of a golden age. The British Sunday newspapers were just starting their colour magazines and their adventurous editors were prepared to send a new generation of young photographers worldwide in search of picture stories. By my mid twenties I was travelling across Latin America and Mexico for the Sunday Times Magazine, definitely running before I could walk, but still managing to return with ten and twelve page picture essays for the Magazine. Yes, they really did give stories about the real world that much space in those halcyon days! Since then I have worked with the Telegraph Magazine, German and French Geos, The Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic Traveler, National Geographic Books and Time Life Books. I have also shot six books. Forty years on from my first assignment I am still enjoying photography enormously, and still getting that adrenaline rush when I manage to be in the right place at the right moment! One thing I'd like to mention is that the majority of the images on this site were self commissioned. I think it's really important to get out and shoot the stories that interest one, especially these days, when those risk-taking picture editors of my youth are somewhat thinner on the ground! | ||||||||||||
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