I used to just care about words.

But as changes rock my industry, my working methods are also evolving. So while I still predominantly work as a print journalist, I’m increasingly drawn to using photography, audio and multimedia to tell stories in a different way. I work largely on self-assigned projects, and recurring subjects include homelessness and social exclusion, urban regeneration, the asylum system and Gypsy and Traveller rights.

My background is in newspapers. 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 today supply features, images and multimedia content to a diverse range of publications and charities and regularly edit The Big Issue in the North.

Along with my editorial work, I am increasingly working on arts projects with young or excluded people. My photography has appeared in an ActionAid poster campaign and my multimedia on an educational DVD.

Over recent years I’ve worked independently in India, Israel, Palestine and Turkey but more often cover stories in the north of England. I’m fluent in French.

I have a degree in European studies and French from the University of Manchester and did my NCTJ at the University of Central Lancashire. I’m now working towards an MA in photojournalism and documentary photography, through the London College of Communication. In 2009 I was shortlisted for the Guardian international development journalism award and in 2010 I received an honourable mention in the Julia Margaret Cameron photography awards.

I blog about multimedia at duckrabbit.

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** I have consolidated all my regeneration work – including four years worth of written pieces and more recent multimedia pieces – on a dedicated website, STREET FIGHTERS. Please check it out **