Leaving Britain for New York in pursuance of a career in magazine photography at the behest of his mentor Terry Fincher he rose amongst the ranks of leading photographers in his field collaborating with the world's foremost magazines including Time, Newsweek, Sunday Times Magazine, The Observer, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, Financial Times magazine, Stern, Der Spiegel, El Pais, Correra Della Serra, Télérama, Le Monde, Paris Match, Vogue France, and the Gruner + Jahr group travel magazine Geo. Upon returning to the U.K. from New York he realised his teenage dream by being appointed contributing photographer at Life Magazine for Europe until the title's closure in 2000.