After graduating in 1992, I left England for Asia armed with a camera and thirst for adventure. The plan was for six months; it ended up being eight years.
It began with discovering cricket culture in Old Delhi, and ended up living in Istanbul, via working and travelling to Pakistan, China, Iran and Syria, and many more.
While living in Hong Kong, from 1992, my photographic and journalistic career took off: Capturing grass-roots Indian cricket culture led to the exhibition Height of Passion, and was also the inspiration behind Cricket, a Kind of Pilgrimage and Into the Passion of Subcontinental Cricket . The huge trip to research A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat included my first journeys to Central Asia for their wonderful horseback sports.
On returning to England in 1999 with a base in north London, recent journeys have covered subjects as diverse as women's sports in Islamic societies in Pakistan, the rebuilding of Beirut, and writing guidebooks to Hong Kong, Istanbul and Dublin. Still a sports nut, I follow the demise (and undoubted rise) of Bradford City football club.