After spending the best part of twenty years chained to a steaming hot enlarger in a damp darkroom in Oxford working as a professional darkroom technician he is now roaming the Arab world in search of pictures and answers.

A fascination for the Middle East and all its misunderstood problems has taken him to the fetid Palestinian refugee camps of Gaza and South Lebanon to the romantic cities of Istanbul and Damascus, to the deserts of the Bedouin and the mountains of the Kurds.

Just as happy working in black and white with film and paper in the darkroom as with a digital camera and laptop computer, his work has been published and exhibited around the world.