Photographers

Neale Blackburn

Neale started serious photography in 1980’s working as a surveillance photographer for the Metropolitan Police. Illness in the mid-nineties threatened a forced career change and he studied journalism at Westminster. Whilst enduring a long convalescence a friend plonked him by the last at Kimble one Easter Saturday and Neale found his home. Last year Neale was the course photographer at Kingston Blount, Kimble, Lockinge, and Guilsborough

Tim Holt

Tim has had had a lifelong interest in horseracing and first started taking photographs at National Hunt meetings at Sandown Park and Kempton Park in the early 70’s, whilst living in London. He soon moved onto Point-to-Points, regularly attending meetings in the South East and Essex at courses such as Charing, Aldington, Marks Tey and Cottenham. Since moving to Somerset he visits courses throughout Wessex and the West Country

Alun Sedgmore

Alun, who is from Trecoed, started taking photos at Welsh Point-to-Points over 25 years ago. It all started for Alun at the Tredegar Farmers meeting in 1984 and he hasn’t looked back since. He lives with his wife, Shirley, in Caerphilly just outside Cardiff and the course most local to him is the picturesque Lower Machen.  He enjoys an occasional visit to the West Country and his favourite course is Chipley Park.

Sweet Photography

Marilyn attended her first Point-to-Point as a young girl – her family’s GP was a Master of the Holcombe Hunt and encouraged her to go and she has never missed a Holcombe meeting since. She met Peter at teacher training college. Marilyn was race reading for “The Pointer” at the time and Peter started taking photographs, so “Sweet Photography” was born, concentrating on Point-to-Points and Arabian horses. Peter sadly passed away in April 2016, but Marilyn is continuing with the assistance of twin daughters Natalie and Joanna.

Tom Milburn

JTW Equine Images

JTW Equine Images is the horse racing photography enterprise set up by twin brothers Jack and Tom Williams, who hail from Singret, just north of Wrexham, North Wales. They specialise in horseracing, both under Rules and Point-to-Point. They are devoted Nikon photographers, having switched from Canon in 2014. They first picked up a DSLR camera at the ripe old age of 19, when they bought one to take images at the 2012 Cheltenham Festival. Since then, they have expanded, and gone from strength to strength. They can be seen at Bangor-on-Dee Point-to-Point course, Tabley, Eyton-on-Severn, Bitterley, Chaddesley Corbett, and have also been providing photography at various racecourses such as Cheltenham, Worcester, Newcastle and Chester during their regular seasons. They welcome any interest in their photography, so if you see them at your local course, please feel free to say hello.

Grace Beresford

Grace first turned her hand to photography during her initial year of her Fashion and Textile GCSE lessons, photographing all things fashion. Grace couldn’t wait to adapt and apply her newly learnt skills in other fields and her attention swiftly turned to her love of the countryside and horses. It was from then that Grace’s camera was to become a regular at Point-to-Points. Grace attended her first Point-to-Point at the age of five at her local course Downhills, Corbridge, and is a regular at the Northern meetings.

Graham Bishop

From an early age Graham was always interested in taking photographs, eventually buying his first SLR at 14. A love of horse racing started even earlier, and living close to Epsom, Graham could get on his bike to watch the horse racing for free. With a camera in hand he could get close to the action in the centre of the course. His first visit to a Point-to-Point was during an Easter holiday in 1976 in Devon, when he pestered his mother to take him to a cold windswept Bratton Down for a midweek fixture comprising five races. He enjoyed every minute, and so an interest in Pointing was started but it was not until he moved close to Newmarket a decade later that he started to follow the sport, although not always with a camera in hand. In 2000 Graham was lucky to meet John Ridge, just at the time he was bitten by the ownership bug. This led Graham into having shares in horses trained by David Kemp and he is very lucky that he still has an open invitation to David’s yard.  Graham has been a member of the “Pub Team” since 2009 and alongside Mike Ashby, currently helps the PRO with composing the meeting previews.

Phil Britt

Phil, who is a sports journalist and Warwickshire C.C.C. Museum Curator and Archivist based at the Edgbaston Cricket Ground, photographs International and County cricket throughout the summer, but is mainly part of the BBC Radio 5 and BBC local radio ball-by-ball commentary team, covering first-class matches throughout the country 5-6 days a week from early April until late September. In the winter months he writes at least one book as well as maintaining his ongoing Museum cricket commitments. He turns his attention to Point-to-Point photography from November as well as photographing almost two hundred football matches a season. Phil attended his first Point-to-Point meeting as a ten year-old at the North Cotswold Spring Hill meeting over fifty years ago. He now lives in Gloucestershire.

Nina Edminson

Nina photographs at equestrian and rural events including Point-to-Points. She also follows two packs of hounds. Nina is always looking for an ‘alternative’ shot that captures a ‘moment in time’ and draws on her lifetime experience within the equestrian industry having worked with horses from all equestrian disciplines. She lives in Northallerton.

Nico Morgan

Nico is a freelance photographer, based in Oakham, Rutland. The majority of his work consists of Equine, Lifestyle, Product and Wedding photography – he is part of the official photography teams for the HOYS, Royal Windsor, Dublin Horse Show and many more. He is also the PRO for the Midlands Area, writing previews and reports of Point-to-Points as well as supplying accompanying images and managing their social media, and the area website, midlandspointing.com

Jackie Oliver

Jackie is a regular face at Point-to-Points in the Midlands, South Midlands and East Anglia areas, as well as travelling further afield on occasions. Jackie is well-known within the sport and is also behind the equine supplement EQmach. Jackie divides her time between running her business, attending Point-to-Points and spending time at her holiday home in Mallorca.

Brian Phipps

Brian is a well-known figure in the world of Country Sports Photography and Journalism, which began way back in 1994 when he picked up photography as a hobby to capture images of motorcycle racing in the era of 35mm slide film, as time went on Brian wrote articles and provided images for publications such as Amateur Photographer, Western Daily Press, Sports Boat & Rib, but residing near the Quantock Hills in Somerset, Brian’s focus soon shifted toward his other passion: Hunting, Shooting and Fishing which lead to Brian becoming a lead feature writer for Sporting Rifle for many years and co – launching the first image library dedicated to Country Sports – Riflephoto

Over the years Brian has contributed to numerous books, calendars and articles working alongside notable figures such as Richard Prior, Charlie Jacoby, Tony Jackson, Dominic Griffiths, Peter Carr, Peter Moore and Bill Harriman.

Thousands of Brian’s images have been published including countless magazine covers for magazines such as Shooting Times, Country Life, The Field, Sporting Gun, BASC and Sporting Rifle to name but a few, picking up awards along the way including Sporting Rifle Photographer of the Year and BASC Photographer of the Year. Fast forward to 2021 and a visit to a local racing yard to capture some images for their social media page, Brian’s photography then took a different path and he can now be found regularly photographing the race horses at Philip Hobbs & Johnsons Whites Yard and at the Point-to-Points throughout the West Country.