Meet The Team

Nigel Atherton
Editor
Nigel studied photography at Plymouth College of Art & Design and the University of Westminster and worked as a professional photographer for over 10 years before joining Amateur Photographer magazine in 1994. He has been a photography journalist ever since, and was appointed editor of What Digital Camera in 2002. He has also written and edited several books on photography. See his pictures at: www.flickr.com/photos/nigelath/ 

Mat Gallagher
Deputy Editor
Mat has a degree in Creative Imaging and over five years' experience working for photography magazines, including Digital Photo and Digital SLR Photography. He's an expert Photoshop user, and loves taking fashion and advertising images. His other passions include travel and cars, and often feature in his photographs. You can see his images at: www.flickr.com/photos/snowbadgers/ and www.matgallagher.co.uk

Mike Lowe
Technical Writer
Mike became a journalist after graduating from Southampton with a Photography BA (Hons), and additional work in photographic studios, post-production houses and web production companies to further hone his not inconsiderable skills. Mike looks after WDC's busy reviews section, and when he's not testing the latest cameras he can usually be found lurking on the What Digital Camera site...

Paul Nuttall
News and Features
Paul manages WDC's Features and Techniques sections as well as being the first port of call for readers' contributions to the magazine. Taking regular advantage of the WDC stock cupboard, Paul frustrates his girlfriend by spending most weekends out and about photographing pretty much everything. He especially likes to experiment with new techniques and is our in-house HDR expert. Peruse the fruits of his labours at: www.flickr.com/photos/djsosumi/

Steve Crabb
Art Editor
Steve has worked in photography and design for over 20 years. He left Bournemouth and Poole College of Art in 1987 with a diploma in Photography and Design and worked as a photographic assistant and colour printer, before joining ITV as an assistant film editor and cameraman - working on productions such as ITN news and the Ruth Rendell Mysteries. In 1998 he switched careers to become a magazine designer, and joined What Digital Camera in 2002 as Art Editor.

Jacky Porter
Production Editor
A keen amateur photographer, Jacky has been a Production Editor and Chief Sub-Editor for more than six years on various magazines, including OK! magazine and Amateur Photographer. She's the 'Chief Whip' on the staff, responsible for making sure the writers all keep to our deadlines (well, she tries!) editing the text, and getting the magazine to the printers on time, to as high a standard as possible. She loves photography and tries to get out to take pictures as much as she can.

Philip Andrews
Image Editing Contributor
One of WDC's longest-standing contributors, Philip is a Senior Lecturer, Photography & Digital Imaging, and an Adobe Alpha tester. However, he is best known as one of the world's leading authorities on Adobe Photoshop Elements. He is also a best-selling author of 18 books on Elements and digital imaging.
Visit his website at http://www.photoshopelements.net

Martin Evening
Photography and Editing Contributor
Photographer, Photoshop Alpha Tester, official Adobe roadshow speaker and lecturer. But perhaps best known as the author of the worldwide, definitive, best-selling series of Photoshop guides, Photoshop for Photographers.
Visit his website at http://www.photoshop4photographers.com

John Freeman
Photography Contributor
A top
professional photographer with a long and impressive client list, John
has written more than a dozen glossy photo technique books, selling
over a million copies. Prints of his fine art photography are available
from his exclusive gallery at London's prestigious Oxo Tower. Visit his
website at http://www.johnfreeman-photographer.com

Jon Tarrant
Technical Contributor
Former professional photographer and photography journalist, Jon has now put his physics degree to good use by becoming a physics teacher. He contributes technical features to WDC and is our primary lens tester, where his science background comes in very handy. He is the author of eight photography books on topics ranging from portraiture and lighting to Understanding Digital Cameras.

Vincent Oliver
Technical Contributor
Vincent Oliver has been a professional photographer for over 30 years. A member of the Stone (Getty) picture library, for which he supplies original conceptual photography, he uses a variety of image-editing applications and has exhibited his work at art and photo galleries worldwide. In the past few years Vincent has been specialising in digital imaging and contributes technical articles and videos for WDC. He runs the popular www.photo-i.co.uk website and has also expanded into DVD video productions.