I have always loved taking photographs, although I never knew what I wanted to do for a living.

In 1998-99 I bought the first of many digital cameras, a little Kodak (I think it took 640X480 pixel shots!) Around 2002 I got my first SLR camera, a Nikon D100 the beginning of something very expensive…
In 2005 I achieved my dream of earning money through photography, and finally, in 2009 my photography income surpassed that of the ‘day job’; I was a professional photographer!

Over the years I’ve been learning more and more. I’m always on the lookout for new challenges and fresh material, and last year I started hiring models in order to enhance my portfolio of stock images. Hopefully this will allow me to become a fulltime photographer sometime in the future.
In the coming years I want to further develop my portfolio of stock images, begin to sell fine art prints and expand into video.

My work at Istockphoto and Gettyimage has been purchased by designers, newspapers, magazines and web designers all over the world. As a result it’s been published all over too: one of my images was used in part to create the last Harry Potter movie poster, one made an appearance on biscuit packaging, and another featured in an advertisement for the Guardian and Sunday Observer newspapers.

If you would like to work with me please get in touch.

Thanks for looking.

J Shepherd.