A professional travel photographer for more years than I want to admit. my shooting 3D began in 2003, just as I was about to embark on a solo trip around the United States in a motor home. It ended up lasting a year and a half, during which I circled the US. At the beginning of that journey in Los Angeles, a professional visual effects friend from Hollywood suggested I might get a kick out of taking stereograms, or two pictures that eventually lead to one three-dimensional image. I was hooked. Almost 18 months later, when I finally returned to the UK, I had a massive collection of both the impressively great and the delightfully trivial from America.
In conjunction with my regular assignments as a travel photographer, I continued to shoot 3D of most of the places I visited. Almost every time I went away, I took photos in both conventional and extra-dimensional formats. Some years later, the same friend who introduced me to stereograms showed me anaglyphs, another method using overlapping red-cyan images. Although reminiscent of the tacky old science fiction films of the 1950s, I found these pictures were easier to see, far more flexible in their presentation and a method that suited me very well.
In 2009 I decided to solidify my digital knowledge with studying for an MA in digital art. There I explored the medium of 3D in a more artistic fashion and discovered ways of manipulating these photos. I have been working with these different kinds of images ever since.
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