Neil Turner

After getting an HND in Advertising & Editorial Photography from Medway College in 1986 he quickly moved into news and features and in April 1987 he joined together with Jez Coulson and David Stewart-Smith to form the collective Insight Photographers.

The collective became an agency and over the next seven years Neil worked for variety of specialist publications including the Times Educational Supplement who offered him a staff job in January 1994.

Known for his use of portable lighting and his environmental portraiture, he became an early adopter, becoming 100% digital in 1998.

In 2000 he launched dg28.com – a website devoted to showing other photographers how to use portable lighting during an era when the digital cameras were poor at high ISOs. By 2004 the site was getting over two million page hits a year.

In August 2008 Neil left The TES after fourteen years on the staff. He is now working freelance for a wide range of publications, lecturing on several higher education courses and still running dg28.com.

Neil is a vice-chairman of the British Press Photographers’ Association and has been part of the management of the association since it’s reformation in 2003.

www.dg28.com