First off: All my pictures are my own and no one, not even the Romans, may use any of them in a gallery, feature or otherwise without my authorization following a notice of terms and my acknowledgment, understanding and acceptance of said terms which, from henceforth shall be known to mean and thus substitute for the words Terms & Conditions.

I started taking photographs at eight years old using an old Kodak Brownie. I don't know whose it was but by eighteen I'd trained as a black and white printer, worked as a portrait photographer, bought a Nikon, Rollieflex and a 5 x 4 plate camera and moved to London.

Model bookers are the secret weapon of the photographer's assistant.

With the help of two brilliant model bookers I landed work for my then favourite photographers by crashing their exhibitions. If you make enough fuss at the door about not being on the list they'll let you in eventually. That sort of thing impresses a photographer at that level because he's looking for someone who can get things done. Honest guv.

From there I jumped into jobs with some of my photographic idols like David Bailey, Terry O'Neil, John Swannell, Terence Donovan, Herb Ritts and Bruce Weber at various rental studios around Primrose Hill and the West End.

Soon I was assisting many of the other top editorial and advertising photographers in the country, as well as gaining my own clients at magazines and newspapers. I stuck around the gallery scene to network because it just saves so much bloody leg work. People (clients) only use who they know so you have to be one of the people whose face they know and that's that.

I took my first pictures of models through Synchro Model Agency's Jonathan Phang and worked with Sarah Doukas at Storm Models as well as Models One and TakeTwo Management and specialized in fashion and beauty work.

After this period I turned back to portraits and following my first exhibition, HEADS, in 1999 I travelled to the USA and began doing exactly the same thing only this time applying it to the film industry.

Soon I found myself schmoozing in Hollywood where I diversified my career direction and made lots of new friends, and parlayed photographing actors into working as a script reader via directing a short film and morphed that into a new career as a writer/director, which fulfilled a long held ambition.

Circa 2022 I'm running my own Public Relations company, Goldsmith PR as a consultant.

I shoot pictures or video every day and Love what I do and my clients are always happy.