I was born in Bristol, England, and lived there until I was four. My family then emigrated to the States where we spent the next six years or so, three of them in the beautiful, rainy Pacific Northwest. It was there that a wonderful and eccentric man by the name of Leonard taught me to build remote-controlled planes, fire potato cannons, turn lawnmowers into go-karts, etc., and to build pinhole cameras, take pictures with them, and to process, develop, and print them in the tiny darkroom he'd built in the woods from scrap material and which he heated with a little iron stove. A good time. Back to England when I was twelve, a period spent believing I was going to be a professional musician, some time convinced I'd be a director which I spent in New York learning the basics of filmmaking (and falling in love with the place), and some time getting a degree in literature in Sheffield, before admitting to myself that photography was what I was spending all my time doing, and that New York City was where I wanted to live. I moved there a year or two later, and now live in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, with my rescue pup, Ella, who comes to the studio with me every day and charms the pants off everyone.
I have been recognized by PDN's 30, Communication Arts, and The National Headliner Awards, among others, and have been selected for the American Photography (AI-AP) book every year of my career so far (well, okay, bar one year I didn't enter during the pandemic). A more comprehensive list of clients and awards is below.
SELECT CLIENTS
Billboard
Black Entertainment Television
Bloomberg Businessweek
Bloomberg Markets
Budweiser
Cadillac
Cosmopolitan
Elle
Entertainment Weekly
ESPN
Esquire
F.A.Z. Magazin
Fast Company
The Guardian Weekend
Harper's Bazaar
Human Rights Watch
Inc.
The Intercept
Los Angeles Times
Marie Claire
Men's Health
Money
Mother Jones
MSNBC
National Geographic
Newsweek
New York Magazine
The Observer Magazine
Oprah
OUT
The Red Hook Criterium
Stern
The Sunday Times Magazine
US Bank
Variety
Vice
W
The Wall Street Journal
Wired
Women's Health
Zeit Magazin
AWARDS
American Photography
(Selected: 2015, '16, '17, '18, '19, '20, '22, '23)
PDN's 30 (2017)
ASME Cover of the Year Finalist (2019)
Communication Arts (2017)
PDN Photo Annual Winner (2016, 2017)
National Headliner Awards (2016)
PDN The Shot (2016)
PDN Faces (2015)