Cards on the table, I've been around a bit ...

I realised early that I was much better suited to life behind the camera, and no one has ever disagreed with me on this.

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My broadcast news career began when I worked as a cameraman/VT editor at an independent television facility in Westminster: a political hotbed. A move to Sky News in Osterley, and they sent me on multiple assignments to Bosnia and then to South Africa to cover Nelson Mandela’s victorious election.

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The Associated Press (AP), the world's largest news agency, was recruiting for their new television arm and offered me the position of Production Director. It was here that I taught news camera and VT editing techniques to the next generation of multi-skilled operators.

 

In 1997, I returned to my old camera/edit role, and the AP offered me a transfer to Paris, where five months later, Princess Diana’s car crashed in the Pont d’Alma tunnel. I was on the scene an hour later.

 

The following year, the madness of the FIFA World Cup circus came to town, and as the millennium ticked over, the American network CNN sent me to Kosovo. In 2005, Ellen MacArthur (now a Dame) was on her way back to France after sailing around the world on the Vendée Globe, so the BBC sent me out across the waves to look for her ... and I've not been back to sea since!

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Over the following decade, I travelled Europe working for numerous respected broadcasters, filming and editing headline news reports, notably for BBC News, BBC World, and their flagship programmes, Newsnight and Panorama.

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I stepped sideways into news and editorial stills photography and was fortunate to have been represented by NTI (UK), World Picture News (NY), and Paris-based agency, Le Desk. The bulk of my commissions came from anglophone publications, but I also picked up ad-hoc breaking news and current affairs stories in and around the French capital.

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Juggling my time between television and stills, the Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme asked me if I'd like to lecture in television news production to their students. I jumped at the opportunity and guided them through numerous techniques, preparing them for practical assignments.

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Just shy of 20 years of living and working in France, I returned to the UK, where I continue with news and editorial photography.