I grew up in Harrow and spent pretty much all of my academic and early career in and around London. I studied art & design alongside music technology at college before heading straight in to work as a runner for a production company M2 Television in Soho. 

I started out being all about music creation and sound design. It seemed the obvious choice as I was DJing and producing progressive house tracks at the time.

Meeting so many different people along the way meant I got the opportunity to spend time in some creatively inspiring situations, such as building portable edit suites for music festivals including V Festival and Bestival in England. 

My fascination with video hardware took me through dailies and QC operator roles, finally ending with me finding my way into the grading suite. 

I still remember in around 2005, while I was a runner, I first started shadowing the telecine guys transferring on an URSA Diamond Telecine and a Spirit 2K - this is when I felt drawn to learning the art of colour grading. 

Absolutely, I feel they are very closely related. My eye for photography translates into my grading work from a creative point of view as well as a technical one.