I met Davy and his team of support riders in Inverness to shoot his amazing 500-mile ride around the north coast of Scotland – known as the NC500 – to raise money for MND (Motor Neuron Disease). Along with his hugely supportive group of friends and family, they completed the ride in just 4 days.
It was a lot of fun but it wasn’t just about fun. Since being diagnosed with MND, Davy’s story is gathering a lot of momentum – not just on his bike – but also in funding. His ride for MND has earned £120K from over 2300 supporters on his Just Giving page. First minister Nicola Sturgeon, cycling superstar Danny MacAskill, Snowboarding royalty Pat Moore and Rugby national treasure Greig Laidlaw shared their support on social media.
Two beautiful restaurants in London; Brasseria in Notting Hill and La Brasseria Milanese in Marylebone.
Trail running star Ricky Lightfoot photographed training in Buttermere for Like the Wind magazine. Ricky is from the Lakes and it’s a place very big in his heart.
A short film about me and my passion for photography. Shot in Death Valley in the US and on the Isle of Skye in Scotland.
I travelled to Myanmar for ICIMOD (International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development). The images are part of a larger project to produce a book about life in the Himalayas. The focus of the project was to capture peoples’ dependence on their environment.
Amazon have partnered with Formula 1 to support teams with their AWS technology. I worked with rEvolution at various AWS summits around the world to capture some of the GameDay League events. Competitors take part in virtual F1 races. The all-round global winners were awarded with a VIP trip to the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Over a two year period I walked and photographed more than 30 of the world’s epic trails for the book Trekking Beyond. Published in 2018 by White Lion Publishing.
GB Ultras organise races all over the UK. Shots here from events in Snowdonia (2022), Brecon Beacons (2022) and the Glasgow to Edinburgh race (2021).
I spent a climbing season at Everest Base Camp to work on a story about how the experience of climbing Everest changes people. As well as seeing the change the climbers went through on their journey up the mountain I also experienced base camp in lots of different weather.
One morning towards the end of April I woke to a milky white sky and the glacier dusted with snowfall. I loved the contrast of the heavily crevassed and boulder strewn landscape intermingled with the tangled web of colourful tents and prayer flags scattered across the glacier. The image perfectly symbolised the stark and remote beauty of one of the most hostile places on earth.
One of England's oldest vineyards, located in the heart of Gloucestershire. I’ve been working with Three Choirs since 2023 to develop a set of rich and atmospheric images.
During their preparations for Tokyo Olympics I photographed the British Rowing team at one of their training camps in Portugal.
Beautifully designed and handcrafted luxe-pods set among woodland near the historic market town of Hay-on-Wye on the Welsh borders.
The Nick Simons Institute is an organisation working in Nepal with a mission to train and support rural health care workers. They work in direct collaboration with a growing number of hospitals throughout the country. NSI really is making a difference in a country that really does need the help.
It’s a compelling story and one that needs to be told with pictures as well as words. They invited me to travel to remote hospitals throughout Nepal to capture some of moments that tell these stories. It's been a fascinating journey for me to work with NSI and see first-hand what it means to be a rural healthcare worker in Nepal.
I spent three weeks in rural Afghanistan as part of a project to produce a book about life in the Himalayas. My assignment was to capture people's everyday working lives.
The brief was to create images with extreme angles and movement. Adventure Camp in Lincolnshire 2022.
In 2011 I spent some time camping with the Changpa nomads in the Indian Himalaya’s in Ladakh. They rear the highly prized Changra goats, not for the meat but for the rare Cashmere wool. It is one of the most expensive natural fabrics in the world, and yet the lives of those who produce it are the toughest ones.
An assorted collection of food photography for various clients around the world.
I travelled to Yunnan and Sichuan provinces in China for ICIMOD (The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development) to tell the story of the people who depend on the mountains’ water for their livelihoods.
At its height this abandoned diamond mining town in the Namib desert had a pub, hospital, casino, concert hall and an ice plant for producing lemonade. 300 people lived there but in 1956 the diamonds ran out and Kolmanskop was left to ruin and swallowed by the desert.
Home to one of the world’s most thrilling Bungee jumps as well as a whole raft of other adventure activities, The Last Resort in Nepal is something of a legend among adrenaline junkies.
I travelled to Ilam in east Nepal to work with Jaya Mental Health. Even though I lived in Nepal for four years I was not aware of the extent of this issue across South Asia. Millions of people suffer and do not have access to any help. Jaya are supporting projects across a wide range of mental health issues, including trafficked and abused children, homeless and marginalised people and those suffering from schizophrenia and depression.
You can read more about some of the people I photographed and their story on the Jaya website
In 2010 I travelled to a remote part of rainforest in Meghalaya in North East India. I’d heard of ‘Living Bridges’ but never seen them.
There was something very moving about the thought that generations of people in this small community had nurtured these tree roots over decades to create bridges for future generations. The practice had become part of their culture. I saw a man carefully hollowing palm trees and delicately teasing the roots inside.
After many years of care the roots eventually form a strong bridge, that continues to get stronger. It’s an extraordinary example of harnessing nature’s technology. Waterproof, impervious to earthquakes or ageing and made without tools or materials. And more beautiful than any piece of concrete.
Single track mind: In search of the perfect bike trail a short heli-hop from Kathmandu. I spent a few days with the people behind ‘Unique Trails’ shooting a new mountain bike route in the Langtang region of Nepal. It took no more than 15 minutes for a helicopter to lift us up from the smog of Kathmandu to 4000m and the clean thin air just below Gosainkunda.
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Howl from the Heights
