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Born 1971 in Chelsea London. Living and working in London as a photographer, taking commissioned work from architectural developments to feature portraits and fashion.Colins obsession with photography started in his early teens. He spent much of his youth experimenting with cameras of different formats. Colin is inspired by people, and the environment they inhabit. He has been strongly influenced by the diverse cultures in which he has lived and travelled. As a child, Colin lived in Sudan in the years immediately preceding the civil war. He returned to live in Africa again in his late teens and early twenties, when he spent time amongst the different tribes in Kenya. He was fascinated by the ordinary, everyday people, especially those living in and around Nairobi. Scottish by descent, Colins artistic path has been unconventional. His parents initially persuaded him to pursue a traditional path and he trained as a quantity surveyor. However, he rapidly realised that his strengths lay elsewhere and he eventually broke away to follow his instincts as a photographer. Moving to Glasgow, he fed his love of music and the dramatic arts in the theatres and clubs. Much of his later work reflects on his experiences during this period: the ebb and flow of city life, and the familiarity of people and things seen every day.In 2001 he took his amateur portfolio to Tony Marsh, a picture editor at Scotsman publications, who offered him work on the spot. There he received some of his first professional training, including from award-winning photographers Ian Rutherford and Neil Hanna. Two years later, Colin took another important step and moved to London where he worked with newspapers including the Financial Times and the Times, specialising in portraiture. Subsequently he moved away from photo journalism to enable him to have more time to photograph subjects of his own.
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