Alan focuses on top job at institute

LIFE through a lens . . . photographer Alan Stone

OLDHAM-BORN professional lensman Alan Stone has been elected to a top photographic role.

Alan has become a director of the British Institute of Professional Photography (BIPP).

Raised in Royton, he served in the Royal Navy and studied photography at Tameside College for three years, before running his own business in Yorkshire Street, Oldham.

After taking teaching qualifications at Oldham College, Alan left the area to become a lecturer in photography at Leeds College of Technology in 1986.

After meeting his fashion photographer wife Keeley, Alan left teaching in 1999 and they now run their own advertising and fashion photography business, Stones Imaging.

They have clients in Europe, USA, Hong Kong and throughout the UK.

Alan also runs his own photography training academy, UKphototraining, in Leeds.

The BIPP is the UK’s leading professional photography organisation with over 3,500 members and provides training, business practise, insurance, legal advice and helps with equipment costs.

Alan has been a qualified member of the organisation since his student days. Four years ago he was awarded a Fellowship of the BIPP, the highest award given to a member.

He lives in North Yorkshire with Keeley and their three school aged children India, Oscar and Iona.