Who am I?
I am a National Geographic photographer and filmmaker specialising in conservation and wildlife issues. I like to write about the world through the experiences I have had, with a particular interest in humanity’s current disconnect from nature and how it is ruining us.
I am obsessed with emotion, as I spent most of my life hiding my own, but I eventually found it. So I cry a lot these days, but I smile a lot more. I try to be brutally honest in all my work, whether describing failure, ego or insight.
I will be publishing my memoir ‘The Accidental Coca Lord’ on here over the next year. It tells the story of my life on the road working as a photojournalist for National Geographic magazine and as a cameraman for the BBC; and how chasing success can destroy you in the end. It was written originally for Collins under the title ‘I Can’t Eat My Guinea Pig, I’ve Had Too Much Cocaine’ but they pissed me off so I pulled it from them just before publishing. I should probably have found another publisher but I realised that the process of writing it was more valuable than the product. If that’s a lesson for life, I wish I’d learned it sooner.
