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Archive: PLACES { 63 galleries }

My career has taken me across five continents and allowed me to work in some of the most fascinating and unique places across the globe. There are stories everywhere, which build into the narrative of the image maker, trying to make sense of the world through the camera lens.

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  • 1989 Leipzig, East Germany
    1989 Leipzig, East Germany
    23 images
    Leipzig, September 1989, two months before the Berlin Wall came down and the collapse of the communist system in the German Democratic Republic.
  • 1993 Edinburgh
    1993 Edinburgh
    13 images
    Photos from Edinburgh in 1993.
  • 1994 Jordan
    1994 Jordan
    7 images
    Images from Petra and the Wadi Rum in the Kingdom of Jordan in 1994.
  • 1995 India
    1995 India
    67 images
  • 1999 Govan Shipyard Glasgow
    1999 Govan Shipyard Glasgow
    10 images
    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.
  • 2002 Eyemouth Harbour
    2002 Eyemouth Harbour
    16 images
    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.
  • 2004 Anglesey Sea Salt
    2004 Anglesey Sea Salt
    40 images
    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.
  • 2004 Ineos Runcorn
    2004 Ineos Runcorn
    9 images
  • 2004 Moldova
    2004 Moldova
    12 images
  • 2004 Scotland's Parliament
    2004 Scotland's Parliament
    56 images
    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.
  • 2005 Brazil: Amazon Footprints
    2005 Brazil: Amazon Footprints
    114 images
    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.
  • 2005 Fordlandia Brazil
    2005 Fordlandia Brazil
    47 images
    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.
  • 2006 Dali Museum Catalonia
    2006 Dali Museum Catalonia
    30 images
    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..
  • 2006 Guernica, Basque Country
    2006 Guernica, Basque Country
    24 images
  • 2006 Italy
    2006 Italy
    26 images
  • 2006 Marquis de Riscal Spain
    2006 Marquis de Riscal Spain
    44 images
    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.
  • 2006 Sellafield Nuclear Plant
    2006 Sellafield Nuclear Plant
    15 images
  • 2006 Ukraine
    2006 Ukraine
    62 images
    Images taken in Kyiv and Lviv, Ukraine during a visit there in 2006.
  • 2007 Faroe Islands
    2007 Faroe Islands
    43 images
    Images taken in the Faroe Islands whilst on assignment in 2007.
  • 2007 Hadrian's Wall
    2007 Hadrian's Wall
    11 images
    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.
  • 2007 Hamburg
    2007 Hamburg
    16 images
    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.
  • 2007 Morocco
    2007 Morocco
    54 images
  • 2008 Leyland Trucks Lancashire
    2008 Leyland Trucks Lancashire
    32 images
    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..
  • 2008 Liverpool Wind Turbines
    2008 Liverpool Wind Turbines
    36 images
    Cionstruction and location of wind turbines in the Mersey.
  • 2008 Manchester England
    2008 Manchester England
    17 images
    A selection of images from the city of Manchester taken in 2008.
  • 2008 Romania
    2008 Romania
    9 images
    Photographs from a visit to Romania in 2008.
  • 2008 Swaziland
    2008 Swaziland
    30 images
    A selection of photographs taken in the tiny African republic of Swaziland in 2008.
  • 2008 USA: 5th & Normal
    2008 USA: 5th & Normal
    30 images
    Photographs taken during a road trip across parts of the USA in summer, 2008.
  • 2009 Todmorden
    2009 Todmorden
    38 images
    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.
  • 2009 Vauxhall Motors Ellesmere Port
    2009 Vauxhall Motors Ellesmere Port
    28 images
    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.
  • 2010 Innospec, Ellesmere Port
    2010 Innospec, Ellesmere Port
    23 images
    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.
  • 2010 Israel
    2010 Israel
    57 images
  • 2011 Liver Building Centenary
    2011 Liver Building Centenary
    13 images
    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'.
  • 2011 Slovakia
    2011 Slovakia
    39 images
    A series of photographs taken in the republic of Slovakia during a residency in the country in 2011.
  • 2012 Aintree Grand National Day
    2012 Aintree Grand National Day
    53 images
    All the action from the 2012 Grand National horse racing meeting at Aintree, Liverpool.
  • 2012 Aintree Grand National Meeting - Ladies' Day
    2012 Aintree Grand National Meeting...
    41 images
    All the action from Ladies' Day at the Grand National horse racing meeting at Aintree, Liverpool.
  • 2012, Beijing, China
    2012, Beijing, China
    294 images
    Images from assignment in the Chinese capital, Beijing.
  • 2012 Little Giant Girl, Liverpool
    2012 Little Giant Girl, Liverpool
    17 images
    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.
  • 2013 Scotland's Border with England
    2013 Scotland's Border with England
    16 images
    Images taken at various points on Scotland's border with England in the run up to the 2014 Scottish Independence referendum.
  • 2014 Bannockburn Live
    2014 Bannockburn Live
    41 images
    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
  • 2014 British Open Golf
    2014 British Open Golf
    20 images
    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.
  • 2014 Corsica
    2014 Corsica
    60 images
    Photos from around Calvi on the island of Corsica, France.
  • 2015 Carlisle after the floods
    2015 Carlisle after the floods
    33 images
    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.
  • 2016 Beijing China Edit
    2016 Beijing China Edit
    36 images
    An edit of images taken on assignment in Beijing in 2012, 2013 and 2016.
  • 2016 Leicester - a city on the edge...
    2016 Leicester - a city on the edge...
    111 images
    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.
  • 2016 St Andrews University
    2016 St Andrews University
    53 images
    Graduation day at the University of St. Andrews, 30th November, 2016.
  • 2017 Machester: After the Attack
    2017 Machester: After the Attack
    24 images
    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.
  • 2018 Queen's Baton Relay Australia
    2018 Queen's Baton Relay Australia
    128 images
    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.
  • 2018 Queen's Baton Relay International
    2018 Queen's Baton Relay International
    83 images
    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.
  • 2019 Island of Colonsay
    2019 Island of Colonsay
    86 images
    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.
  • 2020 Cheshire
    2020 Cheshire
    1001 images
    Images from the English county of Cheshoire taken on commissions and assignments for various editorial and xommenrcial clients.
  • 2020 Cumbria
    2020 Cumbria
    94 images
    A gallery of images from the county of Cumbria, taken on commissions and assignments for various clients.
  • 2020 Easdale Island
    2020 Easdale Island
    6 images
    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.
  • 2020 England
    2020 England
    65 images
    A selection of images taken around England.
  • 2020 Lancashire
    2020 Lancashire
    188 images
    Photographs taken on assignments and commissions in the county of Lancashire over a number of years.
  • 2020 Liverpool
    2020 Liverpool
    292 images
    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.
  • 2020 Scotland
    2020 Scotland
    271 images
    Images taken on commissions, assignments and projects in Scotland over the years.
  • 2020 Wales
    2020 Wales
    99 images
    Images taken in Wales whislt on assignments and commissions.
  • 2020 Wirral
    2020 Wirral
    177 images
    Images taken on assignment and commission around Wirral, Merseyside.
  • Berlin/Germany 1980s
    Berlin/Germany 1980s
    18 images
    Images from Berlin, east and west, through the period from 1980-1989.
  • Berlin/Germany 1990s
    Berlin/Germany 1990s
    39 images
    Images from Berlin, east and west, through the period from 1990-1999.
  • Berlin/Germany 2000s
    Berlin/Germany 2000s
    125 images
    Images from Berlin, east and west, through the period from 2000-2009.
  • Berlin/Germany 2010s
    Berlin/Germany 2010s
    189 images
    Images from Berlin, east and west, through the period from 2010-2019.