biography
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Born in London, I lived as photojournalist and writer in Africa for twenty years.
As freelance, I covered a broad range of stories for magazines and newspapers
including National Geographic and Time in the US and The Observer in London.
My photographs have also appeared in many books.
From Africa experiences I wrote Focus Africa, a book on Africa's post-independence period (Doubleday; Hamish Hamilton,1983). From l980-1992 I lived in Portugal. Stories I worked on there led to a book, The Portuguese: The Land and Its People, an all-embracing look at the Portuguese, past and present. (Viking/Penguin,1991; subsequent Penguin paperbacks led to a revised and updated paperback edition published by Carcanet Press in 2006.) TO ORDER a copy--the price is £12.95--contact Carcanet Travel writing and photos have appeared in The New York Times and a variety of other publications and guidebooks. Photography, where my heart is, expands to new infinities--with echoes in the past. Said Shakespeare's Hamlet:
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