I live with my girlfriend and our two boys in the county of Norfolk in the UK. From 1997 – 2007 I worked for a digital agency as a flash developer & designer, towards the latter part of that time flash video started taking off and I got involved in a few flash video based projects, I started to becoming more and more interested in video as time went on.

In 2006 I was attending a flash conference in Brighton where renowned flash guru Hillman Curtis did a presentation about his discovery of video and how he was moved by it. I don’t know why but I really connected with what Hillman was saying and shared in his emotion as he sat and almost cried as his very simple video about movement played out to the audience. Why was this simple thing so emotive?

Towards the latter part of 2006 I got my first video camera, a Sony XH-A1 and started on the long road of learning all about shooting and editing video. I loved every minute of it, even the bits where it all went horribly wrong!

In March 2007 I decided to quit my job and start on the journey to becoming a videographer, my heart was no longer in what I was doing at the agency, I’d fallen for video big time. Today, over three years later I’m relieved to say that I’ve managed to continue to support my family whilst doing what I love. I’m getting work from some really nice clients and travelling all over Europe shooting so it’s made a hugely positive impact on my life.

One of the best things about being a videographer is getting to mix up my interest in the technical side of the business with my passion for the artistic and creative sides such as of lighting, shooting & directing.

I love shooting the people and places around me and creating the kind of video projects that you’ll see on this website. For me video does more than just capture the moment, when I look into the viewfinder or at a video monitor it’s so much more than a 16:9 slice of life, the camera acts like a filtering system that allows me to see life in a different way, it’s a window into a version of our world where emotions and feelings are more apparent.

The moving image reveals more than our eyes normally capture and it’s that part of videography that I get moved by on a personal level.

Paul.