Paul Smith Photographs

India

I was born in St Albans, Hertfordshire in March 1959. The family moved to Peacehaven, Sussex in 1963, where we stayed until 1973, when we moved to Chelmsford Essex. I became interested in photography at school in Great Baddow, and then studied for two years at Colchester Institute of Higher Education for my City and Guilds.

Photo by David Allen
The Backwaters of Kerala 1996

In 1978 I joined the Essex Police Authority as a civilian photographer, and came to the University of Leicester Department of Engineering as a photographer in April 1980. In 1989 these duties were split 50-50 with the (as it was then) Central Photographic Unit, now
AVS-Design . In November 2002 I took up my current position in AVS, (now part of IT Services) as Leicester Medical School technician.

My personal interests include music (of the Genesis/Yes/ELP/Folk/Classical/Anything with a decent melody variety) Travel, Reading, Cryptic Crosswords, proper beer, Indian food/cookery, and photography. Click on the thumbnails to view some of my pictures.