About
I first started working alongside established wedding photographer, Mr Fisher who had premises down Market Row and Regent Road in Great Yarmouth.
I remember on one occassion when accompanying him on a wedding South of Norwich,the weather being awful; a combination of snow and thick fog.
Running half an hour behind schedul making it just in time for the guests to arrive! Using a Leica SLR 35 mm working well into his 80's!
Leaving school I started a photographers job at Gt Yarmouth Press Agency learning all aspects from photography through to processing and printing. Tea making was also an essential part of the job description for the office junior 😏
The whole set up was very old fashioned, and health and safety wasn't an issue as I can recall on many occasions I used to suffer from electric shocks as old switches were still in place as opposed to pulley chords!
Next, working at various holiday parks throughout East Anglia, including Pontins, Potters and Vauxhall Holiday Park with whom I worked with the wonderful John Chown from Riverside Colour Laboratories in Gorleston. John was a really decent guy - sadly no longer with us. I'll always remember him telling me that my talents were wasted here an to move down to London.
I spent 5 years at Kessingland Beach Holiday Village. It was considered the most popular holiday destination on the East Coast with a superlative entertainments programme with well known impresario Kenny Cantor at the helm. I have very fond memories of my time spent there. The best of times!!
I graduated with an HND in Photography at the Norfolk College of Arts and Technology in Kings Lynn under the tuition of the remarkable John Hansell who is sadly no longer with us. John had an amazing enthusiasm and really drove his students to maximise their full potential.
It was whilst studying at Kings Lynn that I acquired my first medium format camera, a Rolleiflex from highly regarded equestrian and portrait photographer, Ruth Dwornik. I remember arranging to meet her at The Bell Inn at Thetford; a well spoken lady who insisted that the camera went to a good home; I like to think that it did🙂
After leaving college I became publicity photographer at an Arts Regeneration Agency working with Steven Page who unfortunately had to take early retirement on health grounds. He was instrumental in helping me stage my first successful exhibition.
Most of my early work up until 2007 involved me travelling around Norfolk on a beautiful 68' Vespa Primavera.
I have had work published in numerous magazines and books. I have also appeared on the BBC Inside Out programme with David Whitely.
Current circumstances that I now find myself in are making me seriously question whether I am able to carry on with my photography at this present moment in time.
Working in the holiday park industry were the highlights of my life never to be surpassed.
I remember on one occassion when accompanying him on a wedding South of Norwich,the weather being awful; a combination of snow and thick fog.
Running half an hour behind schedul making it just in time for the guests to arrive! Using a Leica SLR 35 mm working well into his 80's!
Leaving school I started a photographers job at Gt Yarmouth Press Agency learning all aspects from photography through to processing and printing. Tea making was also an essential part of the job description for the office junior 😏
The whole set up was very old fashioned, and health and safety wasn't an issue as I can recall on many occasions I used to suffer from electric shocks as old switches were still in place as opposed to pulley chords!
Next, working at various holiday parks throughout East Anglia, including Pontins, Potters and Vauxhall Holiday Park with whom I worked with the wonderful John Chown from Riverside Colour Laboratories in Gorleston. John was a really decent guy - sadly no longer with us. I'll always remember him telling me that my talents were wasted here an to move down to London.
I spent 5 years at Kessingland Beach Holiday Village. It was considered the most popular holiday destination on the East Coast with a superlative entertainments programme with well known impresario Kenny Cantor at the helm. I have very fond memories of my time spent there. The best of times!!
I graduated with an HND in Photography at the Norfolk College of Arts and Technology in Kings Lynn under the tuition of the remarkable John Hansell who is sadly no longer with us. John had an amazing enthusiasm and really drove his students to maximise their full potential.
It was whilst studying at Kings Lynn that I acquired my first medium format camera, a Rolleiflex from highly regarded equestrian and portrait photographer, Ruth Dwornik. I remember arranging to meet her at The Bell Inn at Thetford; a well spoken lady who insisted that the camera went to a good home; I like to think that it did🙂
After leaving college I became publicity photographer at an Arts Regeneration Agency working with Steven Page who unfortunately had to take early retirement on health grounds. He was instrumental in helping me stage my first successful exhibition.
Most of my early work up until 2007 involved me travelling around Norfolk on a beautiful 68' Vespa Primavera.
I have had work published in numerous magazines and books. I have also appeared on the BBC Inside Out programme with David Whitely.
Current circumstances that I now find myself in are making me seriously question whether I am able to carry on with my photography at this present moment in time.
Working in the holiday park industry were the highlights of my life never to be surpassed.