From 1995 to 2000, he worked as a lighting technician at the National Theatre in London (then under the directorship of Richard Eyre) where he first worked for director Sam Mendes as Paul Pyant's assistant on Othello (1997) starring David Harewood.
In a bid to realise his childhood ambition to become a cinematographer he successfully applied to the National Film and Television School[1] in 1999.
It was here that he met animator Gemma Carrington with whom he would later develop a regular creative partnership beginning in 2006 with the West End musical Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story on Stage.
Together, they would collaborate on design projections for Brief Encounter, Earthquakes in London, Birdsong and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Notable effects included the use of 16mm film production to create panoramic digital projection backgrounds to accompany the Driving in my car sequence.