Originally graduating from the prestigious joint Derby/Nottingham Polytechnic’s ‘Creative Photography’ 3 Year Diploma course where lecturers Ray Moore, and John Blakemaore any others were influential. He later gained a Master of Arts degree in Photographic Studies at Derby University. He a lecturer in Photography in both FE & HE for many years. His photographic work has been exhibited in both the UK and in Europe; been commissioned been and toured internationally by the British Council and h been published in various journals and catalogues. He has also been the recipient of several and funding grants and prizes. Following on from his early photographic work which included shown here were ‘Ideal Homes’, Baladon, and ‘Sound-Base-Site’. The influence of both historical and contemporary American landscape photography, in particular ‘The New Topographics’ is clearly apparent in his later works.