Paul Hilton’s inspirational images speak for themselves. In countless pages of the world’s printed and electronic media, they reach out and engage people with thought provoking messages.

Raised and educated in Queensland, Australia, Paul has diversified his portfolio to include editorial, news, corporate and environmental assignments setting up professionally in Hong Kong in 1996.

Paul has worked in some of the most challenging areas of the world such as Burma, China, North Korea, Tibet and Africa. He has also photographed many other parts of Asia along with several Pacific islands and European countries.

Currently, Paul covers Hong Kong, Macau and the Southern China region for Bloomberg News and the European Press Photo Agency (EPA). He has been published in the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, National Geographic, Newsweek and TIME amongst other leading media. He is an assignment photographer for Panos Pictures in London.

Paul is most passionate about his environmental endeavours and has focussed on a wide range of issues. His latest project, shark finning has taken him to all corners of the world documenting the decline of this great predator. His images have been show-cased in the International Shark Photo Exposition with Protect The Sharks Foundation. This exposition shows first of all the beauty of the sharks but also pays attention to the worldwide shark finning problem for educational purposes and awareness. His book "Man & Shark" will be released early 2010.

He won the Ark Trust Award for exposing Bear bile farming in China (published in Asian Geographic and National Geographic magazines). Paul's photos were published in the book, "Black Market", which deals with the wildlife trade in Asia, and included investigative photo-journalism in the wild animal markets and animal theme parks of Southern China.

He has been working with Save China's Tigers since 2003, an NGO working to reintroduce critically endangered South China Tigers back into the wild.

In 2007 Paul started working for Greenpeace International and has taken stunning pictures in the serene tropical waters of Tonga and the Cook Islands, documented satellite tagging of humpback whales, and in high speed pursuits of illegal fishing vessels in the Pacific.

More recently Paul has been shooting images above and below the surface of the Mediterranean as part of a campaign to protect ecologically sensitive areas as marine reserves.

Do take time to explore the rest of this site to see how Paul creates images that shape an emotional response to a time and place invoking a sense of excitement and wonder. Images that are both natural and dramatic. Images that capture a definitive moment.