TRAVEL AND STREET PHOTOGRAPHY

Although I love shooting weddings and it’s probably 95 % of my work, I occasionally still work on some travel stories, events and lifestyle shoots. Oh and I do love to travel! I thought it’s about time you learn a bit more about me. This page is dedicated to my non-wedding photojournalistic and personal work. It is work in progress at the moment but I promise I will keep posting here…

SENEGAL SURF TRAVEL STORY FOR DRIFT MAGAZINE

Surfing in Senegal is known from Ngor Right -- the point break made famous in "The Endless Summer" one of the most famous surf films. We ventured out to see where they filmed this legendary surf movie and check out the waves and culture there to work on an article for Drift Surf Magazine

PHILIPPINES BALER SURF TRAVEL STORY

Anyone read the book “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Konrad ? Based on the book the war film “Apocalypse Now” was co-written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The setting was changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War. The film follows a river journey from South Vietnam into Cambodia undertaken by Captain Benjamin L. However Apocalypse Now was not actually filmed in Vietnam, but in the little fishing town of Baler in the northern Philippines. We all know the famous line from the movie ‘Charlie don’t surf’… well the crew brought surfboards with them and surfed in between the filming. We ventured to Baler to see what the little jungle town far from the beaten track is all about. We met the locals, interviewed them about the film and about how surfing started to become popular after the crew left a couple of surfboards behind in the 70s.

The article was published in Drift Magazine. Here are some of my favourite shots from the trip

MOROCCO SURF TRIP 2020

Every winter I have a break from the wedding season and venture out to recharge my batteries. It is usually a surf trip to somewhere culturally interesting and I always bring my camera with me. This year we ventured to Morocco. It was my fourth time there and I feel like every time it gets better! We had surprisingly warm weather for winter and the surf was pumping non stop. The rainy and stormy winter here in the UK means there were enough storms out in the Atlantic to produce some excellent swell further down south. The coast line of morocco is clustered with right hand point breaks and if the swells are big enough, there is plenty of surf to choose from. The light and colours there have always attracted the photographer in me. So yes, we had a fantastic trip and here is a collection of images, not a publication of some sort just some of my personal work. I hope you like them.

PACASMAYO PERU

Peru is a country rich in culture, history and waves. The Incas created one of the greatest and complex Empires the world has ever seen and left the world one of it’s greatest archeological sites, Machu Picchu. It was in Peru at Cabo Blanco where Hemmingway found inspiration for his Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Old Man and the Sea. There is evidence that the worlds first wave riding was in Peru but in surfing Peru is most famous for having the longest wave in the world at Puerto Chicama. Yet, Chicama is just the tip of the iceberg. The whole coastline of Peru is littered with an uncountable number of long left hand point breaks. Besides all these point breaks the geography of the coast also creates a multitude of rock shelf reefs. All these perfect setups are fed by a constant supply of swell, which travel uninterrupted from Antarctica. The Humboldt Current aides these swells on their journey and they arrive at the shores of Peru often with size and power. Big waves, big barrels or long walls, Peru seems to have it all, but a combination of barren scenery and poor photography light seems to have kept Peru off the surf travel A list. We ventured out to explore Peru’s coastline and spend quite a bit of time in Pacasmayo. This town was an important seaport when its pier was built circa 1860, with fishing and agriculture its main economy. Today, it is a tired old town of decaying colonial buildings that give it a rustic charm. People are friendly; it has a nice square and a nostalgic promenade. Most importantly it has a long and powerful left point that is always bigger than Chicama and often referred to as ‘Chicama’s big brother’.

The article ‘Welcome to Peru’ was published a few years back on Magicseaweed’s online magazine