I have been interested in photography since I was a teenager when I set up my first darkroom in a garden shed. As an undergraduate at Cambridge, I worked for the university newspaper Varsity and became the photographic manager during my final year. Photography then took second place to the need to earn a living.
I worked for over 30 years with Oxford University Press as a publisher of academic and educational titles for international markets; in the 1980s, I initiated video and electronic publishing. Returning to a more serious involvement with photography in the early 1990s, I continued with black-and-white, film-based photography, which I still use. I also began to curate a series of exhibitions of photography, creating a gallery space in the redeveloped offices of OUP—34 exhibitions from 1993 to 1998.
Since retiring from publishing, I have continued to develop my photographic interests through publishing books and articles, exhibiting, curating and research.