BIO
Born in Hong Kong the year before the 60s began, I spent all of my school years there (I remember watching amazed as the first flyover and
skyscraper were built) before moving to London to study Social Anthropoploy at the LSE. Taught by tutors and lecturers who
had spent years immersed in the cultures of their chosen
tribes, I was itching to travel as soon as I had completed
my degree. In the late summer of 1980 I took off for India
with my first proper camera and didn't leave for
fifteen months. Much of the time I spent living
in just one village, Kishanpura in Rajasthan,
a cycle ride away from the sacred lake
of Pushkar. I stayed with
the former Rajput headman,
then in his 90s, and his
welcoming family. It was
there that I penned my
first travel story -
A Pilgrimage to the
Source of the
River Ganges.
Smitten by wanderlust for the next
two decades, I kept returning to India as
well as Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, and made
the overland trip to Tibet from Kathmandu soon after
the border first opened. I also travelled widely around
the provinces of southern and central China writing
about and photographing the cultures and homelands
of the fascinating ethnic minorities. Most of the
photographs on this website are from those Asian
travels including trips to Thailand and Burma.
My travel stories and photographs have been
published in numerous magazines including Marie
Claire, Raw Vision, Wanderlust, Travel & Leisure, Asia
magazine and The China Traveller; Hong Kong based newspapers
the South China Morning Post and the H.K.Standard; the inflight magazines of Virgin Atlantic, Cathay Pacific, Thai
Airways, Korean Air, China Airlines and Dragonair; and the inhouse
magazines of the Peninsula and Holiday Inn hotels. My photographs
have featured on the cover of a number of these publications and are
sold worldwide through leading stock houses Getty Images, Rex
Features, Alamy and Shutterstock. I have held photography
exhibitions in London, Hong Kong and Brighton,
where I have lived for the last 28 years.
