Hi, I’m Tom.

I’m a professional freelance photographer based in Cornwall, UK.

I have 15+ years’ worth of professional experience photographing press, marketing and PR, weddings, sport, adventure and events throughout Cornwall and the UK.

If you like the work you see here and value a friendly, reliable, experienced and professional approach to realising your photographic vision, then please head to the contact tab and get in touch!

Beginnings

I began my photography career, way back, living in The Lake District in the late nineties, my newly fledged Londoner’s picture of the world was fascinated by encountering green stuff for the first time, so a camera was acquired and I set to work photographing, well - mostly out of focus sheep really.

An arts college education followed, at Truro College and then Exeter College of Art and Design/Plymouth University, but as many arts graduates do, I felt London calling me back so in 2004 I found work first with The Royal Geographical Society and then at the Science Photo Library, in both positions as a captioner/keyworder and general dogsbody.

A lucky break in 2007 found me under the employ of family photography business In-Press Photography. With a small team based out of Hertford, they nonetheless had a number of high-profile clients to their name and I was able both to assist the directors and perform my own photographic shoots on such victims as their clients Goldman Sachs, GlaxoSmithKlein, British Airports Authority and In-Press’ then newly acquired client, the Olympic Delivery Authority.

Three years under the tutorage of my colleagues and bosses at In-Press taught me enough to take my own first steps into the world of freelance photography, coinciding naturally enough with a move back to Cornwall.

Landing a role as contracted photographer with The Cornish Guardian (now Cornwall Live) for their St Austell edition as soon as I landed back in the Duchy, I worked every job imaginable as a press photographer - alongside further freelance work for a broad church of clients. Ten years and over 5000 professional jobs later, I am lucky enough to call Cornwall and its people my home and family.

Nowadays, I work exclusively as a freelancer for clients both locally and nationally but there will always be a little bit of me forever, “The Guardian Man”!


Selected previous clients

  • Centrica

  • NHS

  • The Eden Project

  • The British Library

  • Ashmolean Museum

  • The Climbers’ Club

  • St Austell Brewery

  • Diocese of Truro

  • Plymouth University

  • Plymouth Council

  • Duchy Healthy Charity

  • Duchy Timber

  • Ocean Housing

  • Gilbert and Goode

  • Excess Energy

  • Deborah Clarke’s Associates

  • iwoca

  • The Cornish Guardian & Cornwall Live

  • Apex News

  • Pitched

  • Chef Magazine

  • Cornwall Today Magazine

  • Cornwall Life Magazine


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