A freelance writer and photographer for twenty years, I started in journalism in Seoul, Korea during the run-up to the 1988 Olympic Games. Being in the right place at the right time led to work for titles in Europe, Asia and North America - editorial contacts that held me in good stead when I re-located to Hongkong in late 1988.
For the next ten years I worked on assignment for magazines including Time, Newsweek, Businessweek, Fortune, and L'Express. This meant travel throughout Asia, nearly fifty visits to Mainland China alone, and five assigned visits to North Korea. I also branched into commercial photography, shooting annual reports, brochures and PR campaigns around the region for clients including Coca-Cola and Volkswagen.
Meanwhile, I continued to write travel features for newspapers and Asian inflight magazines. Examples of my travel writing work are here.
On my return to Scotland in 1998, I concentrated on writing and illustrating travel and business features for broadsheet newspapers such as The Herald and Independent on Sunday. I am currently working on both fiction and travel book projects, with the emphasis at the moment on a travel book about the Shetland Islands, and which is due for publication in Spring 2008 by Sandstone Press.
As that freelance rarity - a widely published writer with a solid track record in photography - I welcome any enquiries. My full contact details are here.