For thirty five years, I ran a broad gamut of Fleet Street as a photographer with the Daily Express, The Sketch, The Sun and Daily Mail, while feature writing for The Sunday Times and The Observer.

In 1972, my book, ‘The Battle of Bogside,’ (published by Penguin), showing three years of fighting in Northern Ireland won the Robert Capa Gold Medal from Life magazine ‘for superlative photography requiring exceptional courage and enterprise abroad.’ (My photograph of the first topless girl to appear in The Sun, however, has failed to receive any official recognition).

After becoming Travel Editor of ‘A La Carte’ magazine, I left Fleet Street to concentrate on travel photography and writing.