Photographer, best-selling author, and broadcaster. A specialist in travel and digital photography, he is the author of 21 books on photography and video including the best-selling Digital Photographer’s Handbook published in twenty languages and sold over half a million copies. His Digital Photography Masterclass was named The Crème De La Crème of the Top Digital Imaging Books of 2008 by Shutterbug and Best How-to Book of 2008 by Library Journal. Other books include How to Photograph Absolutely Everything, and Fundamentals of Photography. He won the Thomas Cook Award for Best Illustrated Travel Book for his book on the Marco Polo Expedition. He presented two ground-breaking six-part series ‘A Digital Picture of Britain’ and ‘Britain in Pictures’ for BBC and an eight-part series for Channel News Asia, Singapore in 2009 (Bronze at the New York Film & TV Awards). He was editor of Photography magazine, picture editor of The Sunday Correspondent Magazine. He held the post of Senior Lecturer in photographic practice at the University of Westminster for 12 years. He was a pioneer of academic links to the Former Soviet Central Asia, leading a Know How Fund project for journalism in Kyrgyzstan. He is currently working on his 23rd book and to revive the Venice Photo Festival. He is a founding member of the World Photographic Academy. He was born in Singapore and now divides his time between UK and New Zealand.