THE MAN BEHIND THE CAMERA
Andy is a feature contributor to National Geographic magazine, a Nikon Europe Ambassador (Wildlife) and is one of Europe’s most awarded photographers. With more than 80 individual awards featuring in excess of 130 images his photographs consistently feature in all the world’s most prestigious wildlife photographic competitions. His most recent success came in 2020 when he was named the Overall Winner of the Big Picture Natural World, one of the world’s most prestigious wildlife conservation photography competitions. In 2016 he was also named the Overall Winner of Bird Photographer of the Year, winning two categories in the process, and he is also the most prolific photographer in the history of the British Wildlife Photography Awards winning 4 categories with 27 individual awards featuring 36 images. He has been fortunate to be awarded 4 times in Wildlife Photographer of the Year, 5 times in European Wildlife Photographer of the Year whilst in 2012 he was named the Nature Photojournalist of the Year for a portfolio of 12 gannet images captured whilst working on assignment for National Geographic magazine.
Other accolades include category winner and category runner up in the Nature Photographer of the Year Awards and he was also the proud winner of the 2017 IUCN Portfolio Award.
Andy works exclusively with animals and birds that are wild and free and is renowned for his uncompromisingly ethical approach, abhorring those that put their pursuit of images before the welfare of their subjects. He is an ardent supporter of extending rights to all animals, not just the ones with which we share our homes, and his frequently outspoken views on photography ethics, conservation, animal rights and environmental issues can be found in his regular opinion piece in Outdoor Photography magazine. He has appeared numerous times on TV, on shows such as The One Show, BBC News, The Victoria Derbyshire Show, BBC Breakfast, Channel 5 News, Wild about Wales as well as a memorable piece on Countryfile where he attempted to teach comedian Jo Brand how to capture images of wildlife. He has also appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live, Times Radio and BBC Radio Derby. Andy considers himself extremely fortunate to have a passionate and engaged audience of almost 200,000 followers on Instagram where he regularly shares photographic tips, conservation issues and behind the scenes stories from the making of his images.
His images are marketed all over the world by a network of the world's leading international agencies including Getty images, Nature Picture Library, RSPB Images and the Frank Lane Picture Agency and his images have been sold in more than 60 countries worldwide. He also produces regular photo features for some of the world’s most prestigious magazines including BBC Wildlife, for whom he has completed 9 photo features, National Geographic, Audubon, Geo and Terre Sauvage.
His images have also appeared in countless other newspapers and magazines such as New Scientist, National Geographic Traveller, Ranger Rick, Wanderlust, Geographical, Country Life, various Lonely Planet field guides and Natural History, newspapers such as the New York Times, Daily Telegraph, Times, Guardian, Independent, Daily Mail, The Sun, Daily Mirror, Daily Express as well as online media such as HuffPostUS, MSN, The Atlantic, ABC, BBC, BoredPanda, ChinaDaily, 9News, on the home page of search engine Bing and on the Discovery Channel.
He lives in Derbyshire with his wife Claire and their beautiful rescue Staffordshire Bull Terrier, Mya.
ANDY'S CREDENTIALS
Feature contributor to National Geographic magazine
9 time feature contributor to BBC Wildlife magazine
4 times awarded in Wildlife Photographer of the Year
5 times awarded in European Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Overall winner of Big Picture Natural World
Bird Photographer of the Year 2016 plus three category wins
Nature Photojournalist of the Year 2012 plus two category wins
40 awarded images and 4 category wins in the British Wildlife Photography Awards
55 images featured in the Nature Images Awards
Winner of the IUCN Portfolio Award 2017
Category Winner and Runner-Up in Nature Photographer of the Year Awards
