My background is in newspaper reporting but I’m now also trying to use photography and audio to tell stories in a different way. I am working on independent projects on Roma migrants and indigenous Gypsy and Traveller communities.

I was chief reporter at the Evening Leader, investigations reporter at the North West Enquirer and reporter at the Manchester Evening News. I went freelance in 2006 and now supply features, images and multimedia to a range of clients, as well as regularly editing The Big Issue in the North.

In addition to my editorial work, I sometimes work on arts commissions and projects with young or marginalised people. I helped a class of 10 year olds produce a newspaper (see the results here) and have talked about journalism at seminars and to students.

I’ve lived in France and worked independently in India, Israel, Palestine, Romania and Turkey, but now tend to cover stories in the north of England.

I have a degree in European studies and French from the University of Manchester and did my NCTJ newspaper journalism training at the University of Central Lancashire. I recently completed an MA in photojournalism and documentary photography through the London College of Communication, graduating with distinction.

Streetfighters, my independent multimedia project on urban regeneration, received an honourable mention in the 2011 Amnesty International Media Awards.

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I blog at duckrabbit

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