Photography has been in my blood for as long as I can remember. Growing up near Liverpool, UK, I spent after-school hours in my father’s photography studio. Henry Tenser was a professional photographer who captured everything from weddings to prized cattle. I’d help him process black and white film in the darkroom, assimilating the chemistry and the craft. He taught me the principles of perspective while we sketched old country houses, and the discipline of stillness when we’d lay in a hide for hours, watching foxes play with their cubs. Those early lessons in composition and patience became the foundation of everything I do today.
That foundation stayed with me through my teenage years hitchhiking across Europe with a camera, and eventually led to these last fifteen years of dedicated fine art travel photography.
My background in engineering and design has given me an eye for structure; my years dabbling in watercolour painting taught me about light and emotional resonance. But it was those early hours with my father that taught me the most important lesson: photography isn’t just about capturing what’s there … it’s about revealing what others might pass by.
I don’t photograph places; I inhabit them. Across nearly thirty countries, my wife and I have sought experiences beyond the familiar tourist paths. We hire local guides, and where possible, spend days living in a community, waiting for those unguarded moments when a place reveals its essence. I’ve shared a meal in the home of a Mixtec subsistence farmer, joked with a restaurant’s kitchen crew in Rome, and unexpectedly became the star guest and photographer at a triple wedding in Rajasthan. This is the kind of immersion that transforms how you see and what you capture.
Working with professional Canon equipment – currently the R5 Mark II with high-performance R and L series lenses – I meticulously curate every image. Each Limited Edition fine art print is produced using premier archival processes on the finest heavyweight papers, via a 100% carbon-neutral process that honours both artistic integrity and environmental stewardship.
Every photograph I create begins with a question my father unknowingly taught me to ask: What are people missing when they look too quickly? The world deserves to be seen differently, more deeply, and with greater intention.