Born in London, I became fascinated by reportage photography after visiting the Magnum 'In Our Time' exhibition. A period in Barcelona teaching English cemented my ambition to be a photographer and I moved back to England in order to enrol on a Photography course which I managed to secure at Newport studying Documentary Photography in 1993.
Whilst there I soon became interested in the work of Garry Winogrand, Tony Ray-Jones and Elliott Erwitt among others and I decided I wanted work along similar lines of personal expression rather than adhere to the socially conscious type of photojournalism that was popular amongst many photographers on the course.
Like many of the photographers I've admired over the years I initially did all of my street photography in black and white. I soon realised however that in order to differentiate myself from my predecessors, it would be better if I worked in colour. There were a few notable colour photographers such as Joel Meyerowitz, Alex Webb and Martin Parr whom I admired but I felt my style of work was more akin to the previously mentioned people.
Working in London may not seem by most visitors conducive to good colour street photography, and indeed it certainly doesn't have anything like the beautiful light that say Brazil has. But with such an infinite variety of colourful characters in an ever changing cityscape, it has become in recent times as synonymous with street work as Paris and New York were in their heyday.
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