He has won numerous awards for his work which is included in permanent collections of more than 20 of the world's finest museums, and has appeared in more than 125 exhibitions.
New technologies alter, rather than simply extend, the resources of art.
Accordingly, many critics argue that the creative freedom provided by digital manipulation is bought at the cost of photography's distinctive power, which, rightly or wrongly, we tend to see in its documentary quality, that is in its close connection with the observable reality or its adherence to a referent. The critics are confused and shortsighted at best, they lack memory. Ask any one of those critics for a good example of a documentary picture, and, more often than not, they will refer you to a black and white image. As if reality resided any where in the world in black and white. They seem to forget that this abstraction is solely a convention and nothing more, which we have incorporated into our visual language without any further critical thought.