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Writer and curator Emily King said: ‘Poised at the intersection of so many disciplines – film and art, music and photography, architecture and typography – graphic design is perfectly placed to take advantage of technological convergence.’

This struck a chord, for my background is in graphics technology but my future is in photography and design.

I broke my arm at 12,000 feet walking in the Rockies in 2001. That symbolises for me a break of a different kind, a turning point. After 20 years, I stopped working with graphics software. At one time I helped build computer-aided design systems for a company called Shape Data, now part of EDS. For the latter and larger part of that career I developed page description software, with another Cambridge company, Harlequin (no, not the romance books), latterly renamed Global Graphics Software, where I was eventually Chief Technical Officer for three years.

So I gave that up to become a mature student at Norwich School of Art & Design. I studied for a BA (Hons) degree in Graphic Design, specialising in photography, from where I graduated in June 2005 with a First. Not my first brush with education in Norwich, I did a BSc degree in computing in the late 1970’s, also achieving a First, followed by a computer graphics PhD in the days before the subject was mainstream, both at the University of East Anglia.

I’m an advocate of cycling as a means of transport, mainly though Cambridge Cycling Campaign.