About Me
Background and Professional Experience
Born 18th October 1949 at 02.45 am. Ormskirk, Lancashire.
Educated at Burscough Methodist Primary School. Football team goalkeeper. Lost one nil in Ormskirk schools final. Then Ormskirk Grammar School – good at biology and chemistry so drifted into a biochemistry course.
Three plus three years later, emerge from University of Manchester as Dr Walter Lewis
Discovery: Didn’t in fact like biochemistry…but still had to earn a living!!
Isolated first low molecular weight heparin which injected into patients at Royal Free Hospital. Joined company which manufactured a treatment for haemophiliacs from pig blood. Became board director but tempted away to join a US operation as head of new manufacturing plant being built in Scotland.
After 9 months the company folded – run out of money! Joined in Welsh Development Agency as manager of new seed capital investment fund. Offered position of first Director of Research Support at University of Leeds.
Set up a consultancy unit within Leeds in 1997. Operation gradually took over working life and became an expert in consumer products and packaging –listed in Packaging News for three years running as one of top 50 most influential people in UK packaging!!
Discovery –Life is nearly over, need to settle down and do something worthwhile.
Photographic Practice
Lifetime interest in photography as holiday photographer, and then serious amateur focused on traditional landscape and travel photography. Latterly keen to develop more meaningful practice and retired early in 2009 to ‘do something with my photography’
With the support of the MA course in Photography at University of Sunderland, evolving a practice which aims to create visual narratives which challenge who we are, what we are and how we relate to the world around us. In particular I look to explore concepts of ‘meaningful being’ in the contemporary world
Much of my work is based on contemporary philosophies place and ‘being in place’. As such places are seen as unstable, contested and, above all, nodes of social practice in space and time. Places are thus able to render topographical, anthropological and phenomenological narratives which can challenge, inspire and inform us. Much of the inspiration comes from Human Geography and Contemporary Anthropology.
Photographic Achievements
2007 - Gold Medal in FIAP French Digital Tour
2007 - Royal Photographic Society Projected Image Exhibition, London (Group Exhibition)
2008 - Royal Photographic Society International Print Exhibition, London (Group Exhibition)
2008 - Lowepro Award in AA/Sunday Times Landscape Photographer of the Year
2009 - Gold Medal in Trierenberg Circuit, Austria
2011 - New Blood, Sandman Goudie Gallery, South Shields (Group Exhibition)
Born 18th October 1949 at 02.45 am. Ormskirk, Lancashire.
Educated at Burscough Methodist Primary School. Football team goalkeeper. Lost one nil in Ormskirk schools final. Then Ormskirk Grammar School – good at biology and chemistry so drifted into a biochemistry course.
Three plus three years later, emerge from University of Manchester as Dr Walter Lewis
Discovery: Didn’t in fact like biochemistry…but still had to earn a living!!
Isolated first low molecular weight heparin which injected into patients at Royal Free Hospital. Joined company which manufactured a treatment for haemophiliacs from pig blood. Became board director but tempted away to join a US operation as head of new manufacturing plant being built in Scotland.
After 9 months the company folded – run out of money! Joined in Welsh Development Agency as manager of new seed capital investment fund. Offered position of first Director of Research Support at University of Leeds.
Set up a consultancy unit within Leeds in 1997. Operation gradually took over working life and became an expert in consumer products and packaging –listed in Packaging News for three years running as one of top 50 most influential people in UK packaging!!
Discovery –Life is nearly over, need to settle down and do something worthwhile.
Photographic Practice
Lifetime interest in photography as holiday photographer, and then serious amateur focused on traditional landscape and travel photography. Latterly keen to develop more meaningful practice and retired early in 2009 to ‘do something with my photography’
With the support of the MA course in Photography at University of Sunderland, evolving a practice which aims to create visual narratives which challenge who we are, what we are and how we relate to the world around us. In particular I look to explore concepts of ‘meaningful being’ in the contemporary world
Much of my work is based on contemporary philosophies place and ‘being in place’. As such places are seen as unstable, contested and, above all, nodes of social practice in space and time. Places are thus able to render topographical, anthropological and phenomenological narratives which can challenge, inspire and inform us. Much of the inspiration comes from Human Geography and Contemporary Anthropology.
Photographic Achievements
2007 - Gold Medal in FIAP French Digital Tour
2007 - Royal Photographic Society Projected Image Exhibition, London (Group Exhibition)
2008 - Royal Photographic Society International Print Exhibition, London (Group Exhibition)
2008 - Lowepro Award in AA/Sunday Times Landscape Photographer of the Year
2009 - Gold Medal in Trierenberg Circuit, Austria
2011 - New Blood, Sandman Goudie Gallery, South Shields (Group Exhibition)