In the 1990’s in the early days of the Internet I was a Multi-Media Producer, working a lot with New Media as it was called then… I was a Travelling Photojournalist, Film & Web Producer and was one of the very first people to put Film & Sound on the Web. In addition to my Travel Photography, I also worked in Horse Racing in the UK as a Photographer and in Marketing. It was a good life and I enjoyed it a lot.
I started working with Digital image sending in the very early days when I worked for the Sport & General Press Agency (1993-1995) and sent pictures back to the UK in 1997 to Horse & Hound Magazine in the UK from Mongolia. Testing the technology from as remote a location as I could go to, to test it from. Inspired by another Photographer who I saw sending his photographs back to his Agency from the finishing post at Royal Ascot, just minutes after the race had ended… it was at that point that I realised what was going to be possible with this New Technology.
Now everyone can do this on their phone.
So in 1998 inspired by this and also a meeting I had with a senior Producer at the BBC I set up my next project which was possibly the most ambitious thing that I have done. I went to Central Asia, (Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) to produce a Multi Media Website remotely with film, words and pictures on it… I called it The Chinta Mani and you can see it online here, now, still today: http://www.rmas.org/the_chinta_mani/index.html