Paul was born in England and moved to Australia to study photography in the 1980's where his work 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.  

He moved to New Zealand twenty five years ago where he teaches on a commercial photography programme at UCOL in Palmerston North. Students Paul has taught have won the NZIPP Student Photographer of the Year for fifteen times as well as winning the Canon Eyecon Award six times consecutively.  Graduates have gone on to win a number of awards including NZIPP Category Awards and Qantas/Canon Media Awards. He also ran various short courses including a Photoshop Masterclass.  In 2015 he received an Ako Aotearoa Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award presented at Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand.

Recent work has been published in 'Virgin Blue', 'GEO France' and New Zealand 'Homestyle' magazines and he wrote a column in The Photographers' Mail (New Zealand).  He has won numerous Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards for his work culminating in achieving New Zealand Creative Photographer of the Year in 2008, New Zealand Professional Photographer of the Year in 2009 and Australian Landscape Photographer of the Year in 2010. In 2016 he was invited to be part of the team representing New Zealand at the World Photographic Cup.

Paul's specialist photographic areas are architecture and landscape with an additional passion for Photoshop work, and he recently fulfilled a thirty-year dream to photograph in Antarctica. Away from the camera, he was part of the New Zealand Fly Fishing Team as a competitor in the Bronze medal-winning team at the 2020 Commonwealth Fly Fishing Championships and as a manager at the 2019 World Championships where his son John competed.