Profile

I joined the Surrey Fire Brigade (now the Surrey Fire & Rescue Service) on 5th April 1984 at the age of 18, as a part of the Retained Duty

System (RDS) at Lingfield Fire Station.

During almost a quarter of a century serving my community I have moved on through the ranks to attain the role of Watch Manager in Charge,

having held this position since May 1996. I am responsible for one appliance and 14 personnel of both RDS

and WT/RDS status..

I am a holder of the Queens Golden Jubilee & Fire Brigade Long Service & Good Conduct medals, and

an operational incident Chief Officers Letter of Recognition.

Between August 2006 and April 2007 I took on the trial role of Surrey Fire & Rescue Service's on-call incident

photographer providing operational and training images to the services Publicity Department and on request to

the Local and National Press following specific incidents of interest.

As of May 2007 this same role has been provided through the independent use of Fire Photos via mobilisation through Command & Control

to incidents of 6 pumps and above, and other incidents of interest at their discretion.

My photographic career began as a Freelance covering the conflicts in Croatia & Bosnia Herzegovina. During the Croatian conflict I worked briefly as a Stringer for the Reuters news agency prior to enlisting as a member of the Bosnian Croatian Army (Hrvatsko Vijece Obrane).

As a member of the HVO I served as one of only two international volunteer combat photographers and was jointly responsible for covering Croatian combat actions & providing photographic images for military intelligence uses. I served from May 1993 through to October 1995 alongside HVO forces throughout Southern and Central Bosnia from a base of operations in the city of Mostar.

Through following years as a Freelance Press Photographer I covered a wide variety of news events including the conflict within Kosovo,

the funeral of The Princess of Wales, Ladbroke Grove rail crash & various Social, Political and Anti War Demonstrations within Central

London.