I was born in Preston, and educated at Westcliff High School in Southend where I was fortunate, as a young person, to be surrounded by gifted, talented and artistic friends who inspired me to value creativity as highly as any of my more prosaic adolescent pursuits.
As I was, and remain, completely incapable of playing a musical instrument, painting a picture or designing a three dimensional object, I was left with the choice of either writing or photography.
Although I enjoy writing and I harbour an ambition to publish a novel, there are far more gadgets in photography, and frankly it is much less monotonous.
I studied for my degree with Robin Lord at Plymouth University in the late 1970’s, and exhibited for the first time at the Royal Photographic Society in 1977, and at the Essex Salon de Photographie from 1978.
Since then I have worked in education, teaching Art and latterly IT, but I have continued to exhibit and freelance.
Clients Include:
The Independent
Motorboats Monthly
Canal and Riverboat Magazine
The Evening Telegraph
The Essex Chronicle
The Lancashire Evening Post
Essex Countryside
Robinson's Holidays
The Broads Society
Waterways World
Lancashire Life
Yachting and Boating
Studio Porath, Aachen
Classic Boat Magazine
Macmillan Nurses
Webcraft Computer Services
Marconi Radar Systems
Cat World
Statesman Rail Ltd.
Robyn Sheppard Retouching
The BBC
Hat Trick Productions
Britain at War Magazine
Sportsmagazin Verlag Gmbh
Jalan Publications, Paris
Bolius, Copenhagen
Regenerate Cumbria
All images are copyright Chris Kirk, Bay Photographic. Please email for permission to use images for any purpose, both commercial and non commercial.
