Leipzig, September 1989, two months before the Berlin Wall came down and the collapse of the communist system in the German Democratic Republic.

Photos from Edinburgh in 1993.

Images from Petra and the Wadi Rum in the Kingdom of Jordan in 1994.

On 14th April 1999, I was commissioned by the Independent newspaper to go to the famous Govan shipyard in Glasgow with a reporter to find out about the fate of the troubled shipyard. These are my images from a grey afternoon on the banks of the Clyde.

A profile of the port of Eyemouth on Scotland's east coast after fishing in the North Sea for cod, haddock, whiting and prawns. Proposals by scientists to ban fishing for cod, due to collapsing stocks meant that most boats found it increasingly uneconomical to continue to fish, putting at risk an estimated 20,000 jobs in the industry. The fall in fish catches was blamed on environmental factors and over fishing by Scottish and other European nation's fishermen.

A profile of Anglesey Sea Salt Company at Brynsiencyn. The water normally contains three per cent salt but once it is distilled and heated this rises to around 15 per cent. The workers shovel the salt deposits into trays before washing and drying it. It is from the Atlantic waters surrounding the island that the Anglesey Sea Salt Company drains seawater to make its organic sea salt products.

Historical images of the campaign which lead to the re-establishment of Scotland's parliament and the construction of the controversial and iconic building at Holyrood where it now sits.

Assignment for Howies clothing brand, who commissioned me to look at deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. Highway BR163 ran from Santarem on the banks of the Tapajos river for one thousand miles south into the state of Mato Grosso and was unpaved except for a small stretch at its northern end. The area surrounding the highway was the front line in the battle between local communities and environmentalists who tried to prevent to spread of rainforest destruction by illegal loggers and companies which bought and seized land for use in cattle ranching and growing soy beans for export from Brazil via the port at Santarem.

A feature on the town of Fordlandia in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. American automobile pioneer and entrepreneur, Henry Ford, established Fordlandia in the 1920s as an industrial plant to harvest rubber for his cars. The experiment failed after a few years and the factories were closed down leaving many thousands out of work. In 2005 there were only around 1000 people left living in this Amazonian community.

The Dali-Theatre Museum in Figueres. Surrealist artist Salvador Dali (1904-89) lived in the town during the last years of his life. The Dali Museum, inaugurated in 1974, was built on the site of an old theatre and contains a broad range of the artists paintings, installations and sculptures and was the second-most visited art gallery in Spain after the Prado in Madrid..

Travel feature on the Hotel Marquis De Riscal in Eleciego, in the Basque region of Spain. Writer Jeannette Hyde visited the hotel which was designed by architect Frank Gehry and which is built within a vineyard which has been producing wine for over 150 years. Picture shows Jeannette enjoying a glass of red wine outside the Library on the hotel's third floor.

Images taken in Kyiv and Lviv, Ukraine during a visit there in 2006.

Images taken in the Faroe Islands whilst on assignment in 2007.

Hadrian's Wall near Hexham. The Roman wall, which lies within the Northumberland National Park, is popular with visitors all year round. The wall marked the northern boundary of the Roman empire during its conquest of the British isles.

Hamburg with a population of 1.7m in 2006 was the second largest city in Germany and was also one of the three cities, which is a 'Land' - one of Germany's 16 states - in its own right. The city gained its economic prosperity from its history as a city port on the River Elbe, which flows into the North Sea, giving Hamburg its nickname 'Tor zur Welt' - gateway to the world.

Men working on the assembly line at Leyland Trucks factory at Leyland in Lancashire. The factory retained the name of Leyland which was once Britain's principal car-maker. The company suffered from poor industrial relations throughout the 1970s and 1980s forcing the company into bankruptcy leaving the truck factory at Leyland as the only one still producing the make..

Cionstruction and location of wind turbines in the Mersey.

A selection of images from the city of Manchester taken in 2008.

Photographs from a visit to Romania in 2008.

A selection of photographs taken in the tiny African republic of Swaziland in 2008.

Photographs taken during a road trip across parts of the USA in summer, 2008.

A feature on Todmorden, West Yorkshire from a hill overlooking the town. People in the town have started a project called Incredible Edible, which encourages the planting of communal vegetable plots, growing and selling food locally and a guide to the availability of locally-sourced free-range eggs. The project was established in 2008 and involves local schools, businesses and farmers.

The GM Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port factory in Cheshire. The plant's future is to be decided in the coming weeks after the parent company, General Motors, went into administration and its European arm was sold off. Today was the factory's first day of production following the Whit holiday.

Innospec Ltd's factory at Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, located on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal. The factory is understood to be the world's only remaining manufacturer of tetraethyl lead (TEL), a compound used in leaded petrol to make engines run more smoothly which has been deemend too poisonous to be sold to the general public in Britain. The firm has admitted making corrupt payments to Indonesian officials to stop the dangerous chemical being outlawed in the country and also admitted paying kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's former regime in Iraq.

The Royal Liver building in Liverpool is illuminated during a celebration to mark the 100th anniversary of the construction of the iconic building. The building, one of the 'Three Graces' which were situated at the city's Pierhead on the banks of the river Mersey, houses an insurance company which gives it its name. The weekend celebration included a UK premiere architectural digital projection on to the building by a Czech company entitled the '3D Macula Spectacular'.

A series of photographs taken in the republic of Slovakia during a residency in the country in 2011.

All the action from the 2012 Grand National horse racing meeting at Aintree, Liverpool.

All the action from Ladies' Day at the Grand National horse racing meeting at Aintree, Liverpool.

Images from assignment in the Chinese capital, Beijing.

Little Girl Giant, a 30-foot high puppet, making her way through the centre of Liverpool as part of the Sea odyssey Giant Spectacular. The three-day event, which features two giants ran from 20-22 April and attracted tens of thousands of spectators to the city's streets. The event is staged by Royal De Luxe, a company made up of actors, areialists, engineers, inventors, technicians, metal-workers and poets and was founded in Toulouse, france in 1979.

Images taken at various points on Scotland's border with England in the run up to the 2014 Scottish Independence referendum.

Images from Bannockburn Live, a two-day event which was staged at Bannockburn, Stirlingshire to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn where the Scottish army under Robert the Bruce, defeated King Edward II's English forces. The event was attended by a crowd of 20,000

The Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake, Wirral, the venue for the 2014 Open Championship. It was the first time the course had staged the Open since 2006. The Open was one of the four Majors, the top professional golf tournaments in the world for men.

Photos from around Calvi on the island of Corsica, France.

Furniture and other households goods damaged by flooding in Carlisle at the beginning of December, 2015. Record rain fall in Cumbria caused flooding to several areas of Carlisle, causing houses to be evacuated by emergency services. The photos show the egalitarian nature of the flooding around the Brunton area of the city, where no dwelling, large or small, was spared the devastation which means residents face living away from their homes for at least six months, possibly longer.

An edit of images taken on assignment in Beijing in 2012, 2013 and 2016.

A profile of the city of Leicester in the week the local football club attempted to win the English Premier League title, against all the odds.

Graduation day at the University of St. Andrews, 30th November, 2016.

The city of Manchester on the day locations around the United Kingdom observed a minute's silence in memory of the bomb attack the previous Monday at the MEN Arena which had killed 22 people attending a rock concert.

On the completion of the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games Queen's Baton Relay's international journey, it headed to Australia to undertake 100 days of activities in the run up to the Games. For the final 70 days, the Baton travelled the length and breadth of Australia, to villages, towns and cities in each state, carried by 3800 nominated individual batonbearers along the way. The Relay was the longest in Games' history and encompassed a total of 40,000 kilometers from the start in Canberra in January, 2018 to it's conclusion at the Opening Ceremony in Gold Coast on April 4. Myself and fellow photographer Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert documented the QBR across Australia and here are some of my images to prove it.

The Queen's Baton Relay takes place in the lead up to the Commonwealth Games, which are staged every four years in one of the 70 nations and territories which make up the modern-day Commonwealth. In 2018, the Games were held in Gold Coast, Australia and in the year before they commenced, I was one of the two photographers which travelled to all five continents of the globe documenting the Baton as it carried the message from Queen Elizabeth II from Buckingham Palace to Queensland for 13 months from March, 2017. In total, the Baton travelled 240,000kms and was carried by everyone from elite athletes, kings, queens and presidents, to people in diverse communities and countries on its way around the world.

A visit to the island of inner-Hebridean island of Colonsay, focusing on, amongst other things, the role of the local GP in delivering medical services to the population which numbered around 135 at the time.

Images from the English county of Cheshoire taken on commissions and assignments for various editorial and xommenrcial clients.

A gallery of images from the county of Cumbria, taken on commissions and assignments for various clients.

Easdale is the smallest permanently-inhabited Inner Hebridean island. Located in Argyll & Bute on Scotland's west coast, it is accessible only by passenger ferry.

A selection of images taken around England.

Photographs taken on assignments and commissions in the county of Lancashire over a number of years.

Deus nobis haec otia fecit - the motto of the city of Liverpool. A gallery of images taken on assignments, commissions and projects over the years.

Images taken on commissions, assignments and projects in Scotland over the years.

Images taken in Wales whislt on assignments and commissions.

Images taken on assignment and commission around Wirral, Merseyside.

Images from Berlin, east and west, through the period from 1980-1989.

Images from Berlin, east and west, through the period from 1990-1999.

Images from Berlin, east and west, through the period from 2000-2009.

Images from Berlin, east and west, through the period from 2010-2019.

Images from Berlin, east and west, through the period from 2020-.