I am a photographer living and working in London. Loving music all my life, my principal interests are in music photography, but I shoot landscape and architecture [see transientworld], indeed anything in ambient light. I’ve been shooting on the London scene since around 2012 and it’s jazz where I’ve landed in my maturity, although I grew up on pop and rock; there was a time when I listened only to classical music, then dance music and, through acid jazz, I’ve finally made it to jazz itself.

But what is jazz? Well, it’s the ultimate experience in live music: music made in the moment, for the moment. For me, the fleeting nature of the music acts as a broader metaphor for our lives: we are creative creatures, we invent a life as we live it; serendipity presents us with forks in the road; we make meaning from our conscious understanding of the world, we take joy from the relationships we have and the experiences we share. I want to share my love of this music with others, and I’m doing it with pictures.

I am available for specific commissions, but, in the main, I shoot for my own enjoyment, to build this website and to contribute to the scene I love, therefore my approach is to freely give back the images I make to the musicians and venues that have made them possible.

Jazz photography CV

Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club house photographer - 2016-2020

Vortex Jazz Club - 2012 - present

Festival Internacional de Jazz de Badajoz, Spain - 2024 - present

The Coronet Theatre - 2022 - present

Jazz In The Round (The Cockpit Theatre) - 2014 - present

Pizza Express Jazz Club (Soho) - 2017 - present

Toulouse Lautrec Jazz Club - 2016 - present

Trinity Laban School of Music & Dance - 2019 - present

Jazz 625 (remakes of the iconic BBC TV’s 1960’s jazz show) - 2019 - present

Crystal Palace Jazz Club - 2024 - present

…and other venues around London and elsewhere