Mike St-Maur Sheil

Mike read Geography at Oxford before starting working as a photographer documenting the Troubles in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. Since then he has worked in over 60 countries as a photo-journalist and in 2002 won a World Press Photo Award for his work on Child Trafficking in West Africa.

In recent years he has been working on an international project photographing the battlefields of the Western Front for a series of exhibitions on the theme of “Fields of Battle”.

In addition to being a Badged Member of the Guild of Battlefield Guides, he is a member of British Commission for Military History and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Areas of Expertise

First World War (Western Front), Other Tours (Dublin, Northern Ireland)