I come to photography with a history of coaching. I began my journey to develop the human being back in sixth form when I enrolled onto the Sports Leadership Award and ventured into a local primary school to deliver weekly practical sports sessions. I loved it. From a young age, I have enjoyed giving back and passing on the skills that I have accrued.

In my mid-twenties, I became a football coach for an academy in Wales, and worked with a team of Under 16’s. Following that, I became a personal trainer, and worked with clients on a one to one basis to help them achieve their fitness goals. I have carried many of these skills into my career as a photography tutor, and I have so far gained some truly wonderful reviews from the clients that I have worked with over the past few years. You can read some of their words below - I’ll let them blow the trumpet to save my lungs! My skills have also been recognised by the prestigious Light & Land to whom I now offer my services as a tutor.

I have a genuine passion to see people grow in both confidence and ability. My partner tells me that I am a ‘sower’ because I am constantly planting seeds into people with the words that I speak. I have had a keen interest in psychology since I embarked upon my own bodybuilding journey back in 2017, which, funnily enough, was where my photography journey began. I took photographs and made videos of myself ‘pumping iron’ to tell a story of transformation and personal growth. This is where my love of ‘planting seeds’ began as I took to my journal to begin planting them in myself.

Over the past eight years, I have observed, as objectively as possible, my own personal growth through the work that I have been doing in the pages of my journal, under the bars at the gym, and in the recesses of my own mind. I now use what I have learnt to aid other people in their own growth journey - and the camera, I have found is such a wonderful tool for personal and spiritual growth.

I refuse to be an artist that loses himself to the ever-hungry ego that is lurking in the shadows and waiting to pounce when I allow any praise and adulation to go to my head. I do what I can to keep that in check. If I do ever fail to do so, I know that my partner won’t be far away waiting with a barrage of words that won’t be too sweet.

I do not seek to simply empower myself through my workshops by constantly criticising people and telling them that they must do things my way. I have my approach to photography and a vision that I have worked hard to find. Some people like it, others don’t. The key for me is that I like the photographs that I create - they each tell a story of my own and offer something deeper for my viewer than a representation of a time or a place.

It is my aim to be the kind of ‘teacher’ that can guide you to your own place of contentment and fulfilment with the photographs that you create. The key word here being ‘you’. There is only one of you, and that is all there ever will be. You came here and have, so far, experienced life in a completely different way to what I have. That means that you have a song of your own in your heart that is waiting to be sung. Through conversation and curious exploration (of both the landscapes’ inside and out), I hope that you will gain confidence in your own vision, and reach a place of greater awareness of yourself and your own art.

There are no ‘failures’ - just lessons. Each photograph is another brick in the wall of what might, one day, become a kingdom. I strive to create a container for child-like curiosity, experimentation, imagination and wonder. My workshops are a safe space for the expression of your full being. Bring all of you, explore untrodden footpaths in conversation, create meaningful photographs and, something that my mother would always say when I left the house: ‘have fun!’ So we certainly won’t be forgetting to enjoy some laughter along the way.