Biography

Photography has been in my blood ever since my father took me on long hikes with a camera in the west coast of Scotland. I went on to shoot a mix of landscape, travel and street photography in South America. After winning the John Brooks Travel Award I worked as a photojournalist in Bolivia for three years. 

Since I returned to Scotland in 2000 the majority of my commissioned work has been with NGOs, including the Scottish Refugee Council, WWF, John Muir Trust and the Scottish Wildlife Trust. I have carried on with a reportage style, preferring to make a connection with the people that I photograph, rather than zoom in with a long lens

Most of my work is now in digital, although I still shoot and hand print black and white landscapes of winter in Glen Lyon on an old Leica M6. This for me is photography at its most simple and rewarding - nothing more, or less, than a luminous glimpse into our fleeting world.

I am a freelance writer as well as photographer and often mix writing with photography. I have posted a selection of my articles on this website.