PAUL HARRIS

Originally trained in film processing and exhibition printing, Paul has now steadily established himself as a regular contributor of travel, landscape and documentary images to many publications worldwide. In 1987 he returned to college for two years to study documentary photography and has since produced work for editorial, environmental & corporate clients which include The Sunday Times, Geographical magazine, Outdoor Photography magazine, GQ Magazine, British Airways Magazine, GEO, San Francisco Examiner, Los Angeles Times, Visa International, Cable & Wireless Plc, Dorling Kindersley, The Rough Guides, The Carbon Storage Trust & Survival International.

In 1990, he accompanied the writer and explorer, Tim Severin to retrace ancient courier routes across the Steppes of Mongolia. Subsequent projects involved journeys through Russia's Far East, Vietnam, Ecuador, The Malay Archipelago, Iran and India's North East and North West Frontiers, and most recently in Chile, Niger, Tibet and Honduras.

His portraits of British Explorers are part of the permanent collections of The National Portrait Gallery and The Royal Geographical Society of which he is a fellow and a recipient of their Cherry Kearton' medal (1995) for photography of "peoples and the natural world”.