Getting out, connecting with people and exploring is challenging and fun.

My parents gave me my first camera for my tenth birthday. It used cassette film and came with three flash units, each with four bulbs. I loved taking photographs and I continued even when I left England to work as a teacher in the Sudan. There, even during a famine, 35mm film was still easy to buy. As was toothpaste. I took two slr cameras, taped up against the dust and sand. When I returned home, I turned my bedroom into a darkroom, printed some photos and that was the end of photography for many years.

Then I had a three year brush with cancer. With the limits to my freedom that cancer treatment brought, I returned to photography. The camera brings purpose and connection. I also use photography to help others get out there and am a trusted photographer for a number of small organisations in the Aire Valley.

Currently, I am working on three projects, one which involves making short videos, another about the evenings and nights and the third is to tell the story of the River Aire.

I live in Shipley, West Yorkshire and explore the town, its people and surrounding hills.

I love photographing everything, make short films and share my work.

I also enjoy talking about photography and cameras.

I am currently a trustee for The Aire Rivers Trust and am photographing the length of the river. The aim is to learn more about its landscape, its wildlife and our human relationships with both these things.

Get in touch if you're interested.