Noir Club Photographer of the Year Award.

About the Author

Shaun is a retired Senior Operations / Logistics / Commercial Manager, in the computer networking hardware and defence equipment sectors.

In 2020 he was approached to come out of retirement to take up a post as a specialist logistician contractor to the Department of Health and Social Care in the Covid Emergency Response Freight Team. Initially and voluntarily working as the permanent Emergency Night Desk Controller ensuring the emergency despatch of PPE to hospitals during the ramp-up phase of the Covid response, as the situation stabilised he became the Operational Freight Finance Controller, ensuring that the airlines and freight companies invoiced in accordance with the sometimes complex freight contracts, saving over £5million of taxpayers' funds in identifying invoicing errors and inappropriate use of exchange rate calculations. Finally he was responsible for complex cost-modelling and remodelling scenarios to identify the most economic means and routes of disposing of millions of pounds of excess, time expired stock, again saving the taxpayer millions of pounds in unnecessary storage, freight and disposal costs by identifying the most expeditios and cost effective methods.

He also documented the department's standard operating procedures (SOP) that had been developed to deal with the unforeseen emergency, so that, in the event of another similar emergency, the SOP manual could be taken off the shelf and the processes rolled out much more qcuikly and efficiently.

In his spare time, Shaun volunteered as a uniformed instructor in the Royal Air Force Air Cadets, as a Warrant Officer (12 years) and a Commissioned Officer (22 years) in the Training Branch of the RAF Volunteer Reserve, retiring as a Squadron Leader in 2018. Roles included being a Squadron Warrant Officer, Training Officer, Adjutant, Supply Officer, Weapons / Shooting Officer, Squadron Commander, and various staff appointments at Wing, Region and Corps HQ levels. 

Notable achievements - Won the Marshall Trophy for the Most Improved Unit in the Air Cadet Organisation over a protracted period (2006-2009) for taking a demoralised and underperforming unit, and through leadership and mentoring the staff team, turning it into a successful unit achieving dramatic improvements in; membership (from c10 to over 75 active members); training results; participation; fundraising to purchase a minibus to facilitate more activities; and in sporting and Duke of Edinburgh's Awards achieved. 

Wrote the Scheme of Work for the first Corps-level First Aid Instructors Course, accepted without amendment at the first instance by the awarding body. 

Doubled the capacity on the Corps Parachute Course from 30-60 trainees, and from one course to multiple courses annually, through analysing the accommodation and instructor capacity at the training venue (RAF Weston-on-the-Green under the auspices of No 1 Parachute Trainng School RAF Brize Norton) and proposing changes to the course structure and staffing. 

In his spare time Shaun enioys all types of photography and spent c5 years as a Volunteer Photographer at the local parkrun prior to the Covid pandemic. He has been the team photographer for various of his wife's ladies' rugby teams, and the Notts/Lincs/Derbyshire tri-county rugby competitions finals. He has recently completed a Master of Arts degree in photography through Falmouth University. He is a licentiate of the Disabled Photographers Society, and is the Chair of the Archaeology and Heritage Special Interest Group of the Royal Photographic SocietyCommittee (and Military Heritage Coordinator). 

He has been published countless times, in print and in online journals, and has been exhibited in over 80 international exhibitions in over 20 countries (as of Sept 2025). 

He is an accredited Member of the International Association of Press Photographers. 

He is a family man and loves spending time with his wife and family, his daughter, son-in-law and 5 grandchildren, who - of course - have him wrapped around their little fingers! He enjoys researching his family tree, reading (mainly military hstory), watching Rugby Union (England and Leicester Tigers), drinking good single malt Scotches or equally excellent Irish malt whiskey!