Collaborated with poet and writer Ian Robinson on a number of projects, including Independent Press Distribution and the short-lived magazine Telegram.
Journalism led him to cover stories in Kurdistan, the Spanish Sahara and the Philippines for various newspapers, including the Guardian and the Sunday Times.
[4] His principal photographic works include Homage to Melville (1988); Three Heraclitean Elements (1991); The Gardens of the Hesperides (1993); akea (1994); The Book of Lost Cities (1996),[5] which won the ‘Aide au projet’ prize at the Rencontres Internationales Photographiques at Arles in 2004;[6] lumen (2004); lithoi/stones (2006); airs, waters, places (2009) and Change (2012).
In 1977, he drove in and wrote an account of the 1977 London-Sydney Marathon rally, a 30,000 km competitive drive across Europe, through Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan into the Indian sub-continent before traversing the Malay peninsula and crossing Australia from Perth to Sydney by way of inter alia Alice Springs, Melbourne and Adelaide.
[7] With his co-driver, Erling Jensen from Denmark, and driving a Peugeot 504TI bearing entry number 5, he finished in 27th position.