THE PERSONA BEHIND THE LENS:

My love of photography started when I was at school.  My mum had a Ziess ion  camera and used to take pictures of all sorts of things and being creative it was not long before I browed the camera and  was taking pictures . Untill she got so fed up and me continually pestering her for a camera I got  my first camera was a Olympus OM10.

My  professional photographic career really started when I worked as a news paper photographer for one of the largest and oldest newspaper groups in South Africa, in the early eighties. Where we used Nikon camera.s FE and F3,s three lenses 28 mm ,50mm and a 70-200mm a flash gun and a horrible camera box bag so I went out and bought a new Domeke f2 bag with some of my first wages and promply tossed the old box bag on the chief photographers table and told him I was not using that piece of S&%),I still use Nikon system camera,s to this day. I have a Nikon D810 and aD700 with a16-35mm f4 lens, , 24-70mm 2.8,24mm2.8 prime, 35mm prime1.18, 50mm1.8and a 70-200mm 2.8 zoom lens

I have  developed my own style of creative, inquisitive and instinctive flair  style of photography, which enables me to adapt to the situation in front of the camera. I often shoot images on the fly to capture a image  that tells a story and a makes the viewer react to the image . With over 4 decade,s of photographic experience working as a professional photojournalist/photographer

The urban and street  intrique me to shoot images of the urban envioment. all be it urban landscapes or street photography I am still out there continuing to take pictures of society in flux .

Based in Liverpool and beyond

​Some of the publications and news outlets that has used my images;

Nas pers newspaper group, R.S.A.Die Volksblad,Bloemnuus;Rapport,Beeld, Other news outlets,The Natal Mercruy,Daily news,The Natal Wittness,Liverpool Echo,Magazine,s Scope ,WI monthly,Huisgenoot.Photo stock agencies Alamy,Shuttercock to name a few.