Paul was born in England and moved to Australia to study photography in the 1980's at both Photography Studies College and the Australian College of Photography, Art & Communication, Melbourne. Formal portrait work of Asian boat people is represented in both the Australian National Gallery, Canberra and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia.

He returned to UK to work as a freelance photographer specialising in architectural work with clients including ‘Country Life’ magazine, ‘The Landmark Trust’ (an historic buildings trust), architects, housing associations etc.  The work has appeared in magazines, brochures, annual reports and books.  In England he gained an MA in Art & Design and Associateship to the Royal Photographic Society.

He moved to New Zealand in 1997 where he teaches  photography on a commercial photography and design degree programme at UCOL in Palmerston North. He has received Merit Awards resulting in work being published by the American magazine B&W which is circulated amongst photographers, collectors and curators. He has won a number of awards including  Gold and Silver Medals at both New Zealand and Australian Professional Photography Awards, culminating in Master of the AIPP, Fellow (Gold Bar) of the NZIPP and the 2008 Adobe/NZIPP 'Creative Photographer of the Year' Award and was a Finalist in the 'New Zealand Professional Photographer of the Year' Award.  He won the 2009 NZIPP/Central Districts Award and then both the 2009 ImageLab/NZIPP 'New Zealand Landscape Photographer of the Year' Award and the 2009 Epson/NZIPP 'New Zealand Professional Photographer of the Year Award'.  After becoming a Finalist in the 2010 'New Zealand Travel Photographer of the Year', he went on to win the 2010 L&P/AIPP 'Australian Landscape Photographer of the Year Award'.  in 2011, Paul was a Finalist in the 'New Zealand Landscape Photographer of the Year'.

Recent work has been published in 'Virgin Blue' and NZ 'Homestyle' magazines.  He has written a number of tutorial based articles for the Australian magazine 'Digital Photography' and has run various courses including a current Photoshop Masterclass.  Photographic interests includes  landscape work, often using long exposures to explore notions of time, architectural imagery and digitally produced still-life constructions. Currently, he is combining photography with his passion for fly fishing for wild New Zealand trout with the new DSLR fusion of stills with HD video work.