My Latest Project…

My next book project is ‘Shadow Boxers’, a celebration of arguably the last great era of club fighting in New York. The world of real-life Rockys, a hard masculine world where a man had a chance to fight his way to fame and glory. A world that no longer exists. In the late 1970s and early 80s. I spent over five years in New York and New Jersey seedy gyms and boxing venues, documenting characters with bashed in noses and unshakeable dreams.

What I’m about

For over forty years I have worked all over the world as a professional photographer shooting assignments for major news corporations including The Sunday Times, The Observer, Newsweek and Paris Match. I have photographed celebrities, sporting stars and politicians, such as Mohammed Ali, Nelson Mandela, Princess Diana, Elton John, Ian McKellen and Alan Rickman. Which is fun, but what I really love doing is documenting ordinary people doing extraordinary things, giving voice to those who may not have a voice of their own.

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