Born in Scotland in 1944, Bill was raised and educated in London completing his studies in 1967 at the Harrow School of Photography. With final year exams just a month away, he was offered a job with a top fashion studio in Chelsea. The decision he took was to shape his future over the next 30 years. Within a week, he was assisting on his first fashion shoot in Spain. Over the next ten years Bill specialized in advertising photography in the fields of fashion, still life and travel first with London studios then in his own studio in Edinburgh. In the early eighties, during 5 year sabbatical in France with his wife Gill and two children, Bill rarely looked at a camera, turning his “skills” to more hands on work such as carpentry, stone masonry and house restorations.This period was to established a love of the country and region that was to remain, even during an extended absence which began for Bill in 1983 commuting between home and London working as a photographer with a busy London studio. However, having developed a taste for working for themselves, Bill and Gill decided, in 1988, to setup their own business once more, again in Scotland, but this time in the booming city of Glasgow. Bill gained a loyal client following and was rewarded with a highly successful period during which he produced some of his most exciting and creative work. Now back in France, however, he continues to do advertising work for clients in the UK and now uses his 40 years of experience on a new passion: Digital Photographic Art.