About me

I have been a keen and constant photographer since the age of 13, so I am well versed in all aspects of the subject. I have embraced the transformation to digital enthusiastically and I contribute to Getty iStock and Adobe Stock photoservices.

My medical training was in Liverpool and I subsequently worked for several years in Central Africa before returning to the UK and becoming a family doctor in South Nottinghamshire for the next 37 years. I was involved in university teaching and obtained a doctorate for my research into whooping cough, which I have  also written about. ('Outbreak in the Village', Springer-Nature 2020). I am still registered with the General Medical Council (number 0396235). 

When my first daughter was born prematurely she was immediately place in an incubator located elsewhere. Within two hours I had a photograph of her on my wife's bedside locker to facilitate the bonding process. It was a novel idea over half a century ago, but I instintively felt it was important. Now it is normal of course.  

I realised the need for a latter years portrait service while visiting a recently widowed old friend. Her husband had developed Parkinson's disease and a local photographer in his studio had struggled to get a portrait of him that did not show any sign of the affliction. He succeeded and she could hardly stop looking at that framed picture in her living room. It gave her great comfort.

I realised that I was ideally placed to provide such a service in people's own homes.

Previous commissions include photographing all the works of the artist Eugene Burnand (1850-1921)  in his museum in Moudon, Switzerland, and photographing all the (over 2000) graves in the Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome for their database.

Doug Jenkinson DM FRCGP