Education

1990 University of Huddersfield. BA(Hons) Economics and Finance.
1999 London College of Printing. Postgraduate Diploma in Photojournalism.

Expositions

June 1999: War Child the Balkans War. Spitz Gallery, London
June 2000: LCP Sierra Leone. London College of Printing
September 2000: Sunday Times Nikon Ian Parry Award Exhibition. London.
September 2000: Children at War. Spitz Gallery, London.
July 2001: Sunday Times, Nikon, Ian Parry Awards Exhibition, London.
August 2002: One Hundred Years of Darkness. Spitz Gallery, London.
September 2004 Cologne Photokina Germany
September 2005 The Rape of a Nation Perpignan Visa pour l’Image
October 2005 The Rape of a Nation Human Rights Watch UBS Geneva
December 2005 Moving Walls OSI New York
June 2006 Human Rights and Street Children, Lincoln Centre, NYC
June 2006 Norwegian Refugee Council, Rådhusplassen – Oslo
September 2006 Child Soldiers, The Nobel Centre Oslo, Norway
September 2006 Moving Walls OSI Washington
October 2006 The Rape of a Nation, Human Rights Watch, Federal Building, Wall Street NYC
December 2006 Human Rights Watch Kinshasa DRC
February 2007 The Rape of a Nation Field Museum Chicago USA

Awards

2000 Sunday Times Nikon Ian Parry Young Photojournalist of the Year
2000 Marie Claire, Young Photojournalist of the Year 2000.2nd Place
2002 Picture of the Year USA Magazine Features 2nd Place
2003 Picture of the Year USA News Picture Story 1st Place
2004 3PPP 1st place 30,000 Euro Grant
2004 NPPA Magazine News Story Picture 1st Place
2004 NPPA Magazine Feature 1st Place and 3rd Place
2004 Picture of the Year Magazine News Picture Story 1st Place
2004 UNICEF Photographer of the Year 1st Place
2005 POYi Magazine Features 1st Place
2005 POYi Magazine News 1st Place
2005 POYi Magazine Photographer of the Year Award 1st Place
2005 NPPA Magazine Photographer of the Year Award 2nd Place
2005 Alexia Foundation 1st Place
2005 OSI Distribution Grant 19,000 USD
2005 Days Japan Readers Award
2005 Short-listed for the Eugene Smith Award
2006 World Press Photo 2nd Daily Life Singles
2006 POYi Magazine Photographer of the Year 2nd Place
2006 Overseas Press Club of America, Olivier Rebbot Award
2006 Short-listed for the Eugene Smith Award
2007 UNICEF Photographer of the Year Award Honorable Mention

Books

One Hundred Years of Darkness- Explores the Congo River one hundred years after
Joseph Conrad published his book “The Heart of Darkness” using Joseph Conrad’s
words and my pictures I illustrate how Congo’s colonial past is still haunting this
beautiful yet confused nation. I spent three and a half years traveling around the River
Congo investigating life, war and the effects of 150 years of harsh rule.

The Rape of a Nation- A body of work covering Natural Resource exploitation
in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Joseph Conrad once called King Leopold’s actions
in the Congo, “The vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human
conscience.” The work examines the current reason for and costs of, the conflict and
presents a visual representation reasons why there are four million dead in the country
in the past six years. Work in Progress