“An eye of a different drummer"
Born in England, Paul moved with his family to Florida
in his youth. His passion for creative expression found, and still finds,
an outlet in fine art photography, and he has exhibited in numerous galleries
around Florida. In commercial photography, Paul found a way to combine his
love of the camera with making a living, and after graduating from the Art
Institute in Ft. Lauderdale, he went on to apprentice with the early legends
of the Miami photographic scene. In 1980, Paul established a studio in Miami
Shores and was gaining a reputation as a detail-oriented shooter. He soon
expanded to a warehouse in Miami, and added corporate and illustrative portraiture
to his repertoire, along with daredevil aerial photography hanging out of
a helicopter.
By 1986, Paul was married to Jill Lippincott, and had established a studio in
the Miami Design District to meet the needs of a burgeoning clientele that included
numerous Miami ad agencies, publications, real estate developers, and corporate
clients. He soon developed a reputation for his uncanny knack of setting CEOs
and other high-level executives at ease, capturing them at their best in corporate
portraits that are both original and expressive.
Today, Paul and Jill work out of a state-of-the-art
studio on West Dixie Highway in North Miami, working with South Florida and
national agencies and businesses.
As South Florida’s economy has grown, there has been an increased need for images
of Florida and the tropics not available through the big stock houses; in response,
Paul and Jill, along with other photographers, created
Miami Stock Photos,offering
a stock photography library of the highest quality.
Paul was a pioneering member of the South Florida chapter of the American
Society of Media Photographers, serving on its executive committee as well
as being instrumental in creating the society’s web site. He still volunteers
his time to the society, and is also an affiliate member of the South Florida
chapter of AIGA. In addition,
he continues to explore new avenues of photographic creativity, shooting remote
locales in Britain and Europe as well as The Great Smoky Mountains and other
American treasures closer to home. He also continues to be on the vanguard of
combining primitive and advanced technologies, and is currently experimenting
with the use of pinhole and Lomo cameras to capture images on film, which are
then digitally manipulated to create one-of-a-kind works of art
