I wanted to be a cameraman from the age of eight.

Images fascinated me long before I ever made a living from them. I remember helping my father in his darkroom, watching black-and-white photographs appear in the developer — and I still find myself doing much the same thing: noticing where the light falls, how one picture connects with another, and how a sequence of images can make us feel something.

Somehow that fascination became my working life.

I've spent my career filming people, places and stories for television, documentary and news — from extraordinary events to an enormous amount of wonderfully ordinary life.