About my work

Since 1996 I’ve been shooting high quality corporate, marketing and editorial photography for clients throughout the UK. My clients range from small businesses to multi-national blue-chip companies, and include magazines, PR agencies and design agencies.

I always welcome the opportunity to show potential new clients my work – if you’re based in Scotland, drop me an email at nick@nml.uk.com to arrange a meeting. I’m in London around every three or four weeks, and am happy to meet clients there as well.

The majority of my work is shot on location, often at clients’ offices for maximum convenience. Most of my product photography is shot at my office in Stirling.

My biography

After graduating from University with a degree in English, I started freelancing full time for The Scotsman newspaper. I spent the next five years there shooting news and features, including a two-year stint on the picture desk.

I left the Scotsman in 2001 to freelance for the newly established Scottish business daily Business am, where I shot business portraits almost exclusively. At the same time, I continued to build up a long list of corporate clients.

After Business am closed in December 2002, I made the decision to concentrate almost exclusively on corporate work, including brochures, websites and public relations photography, while still shooting editorial work for newspapers, magazines and contract publishers.

I have been shooting digitally since 2000, and shooting solely on digital since 2007.

And when I’m not photographing…

When I don’t have a camera in my hand, I’m a board member of the British Photographic Council, a director of Editorial Photographers UK, and I sit on three committees in the National Union of Journalists.

In 2009, I was the editor of a major report for the European Federation of Journalists on the future of photojournalism across EU member states.

I was involved with the launch of the Photo Histories website, and continue to be involved with the organisation of the Stand Up For Photojournalism exhibitions. From 2005 to 2010, I wrote a weekly email newsletter for industry professionals on issues in the UK photography sector.

I’m somewhat fanatical about Formula 1, I enjoy collecting bones with my son and am a huge fan of the poetry of Derek Walcott, about whom I wrote my dissertation.

I met my wife Mary while at university, and we live in a small Perthshire village with our eight-year-old son Jake and our cats, Bailey and Eisenstaedt.