From the young age of eleven I was encouraged to take pictures by my father, I learnt my trade at Camera Press ‘the’ leading photographic agency in the world at the time. I worked my way up through the agency (tea-maker, messenger, darkroom) to become their staff photographer for seven years.

At Camera Press I photographed the great and the good (and the not so good) Politicians, Actors, Authors, Artists in fact almost everything and everyone (I am more than happy to ramble on about it all when you come for your shoot).

With the arrival of the bright young Lady Diana I chose to specialise in photographing the British Royal Family. I did so for nearly twenty years. Accredited and invited by Buckingham Palace to cover official UK Royal rota engagements and Royal Tours to seventy countries, so you could at a stretch say your family pictures are almost ‘By Appointment’ (Don’t suppose the Palace would be very pleased about that though :-))

I was Royal Correspondent for Sipa Press Agency in Paris for more than ten years.
I was awarded the Martini ‘Royal Freelance Photographer’ and ‘Best Royal Portfolio’ of the year in the 80’s.

Commissioned and published on numerous occasions by, (amongst the most notable) Vogue London, Paris Match, Bunte, Oggi,Time, Newsweek, Hello, Hola, Quick and many more...

I have opened fifteen successful studios for a high street franchise.

I have three lovely daughters who are all well used to my pointing a camera at them from very early ages, as you can see one of them (Nicole) has already turned the camera on me and Claire (obviously runs in the family).

I am quite capable of making a complete prune of myself just to get a giggle from you and your children, I am not scary at all and seem to have the patience of a saint with children (the checkout queue at the supermarket is a different matter altogether).

Claire and I run Nousha photography together and as North West London Refugees it has been a revelation to meet such a lovely bunch of people in South East London.