Coach in German and English, Media Creator and Curator
I offer innovative programmes that combine individual or group tuition with self-study materials from my online media collection.
Content Creator, Photography Coach, Writer & YouTuber
I take photos and videoclips for my AVZINE YouTube channel and my aidan.co.uk site. I run photo walks and teach photography.
Learn about my projects and experience in this photomosaic. Click on the images to find out more.
My main freelance activity today is running German language courses online for individuals and small groups. I have built up a large media library of content, which is available only to my students.
My Liverpool Photo Walk takes place in and around St George’s Hall. In this small are a there are many things to photograph. More info via the main menu.
My Manchester Photo Walk starts near the renovated Old Fire Station and continues either through the Northern Quarter or along Whitworth Street. More info via the main menu.
My Victoria Baths photography workshop takes place on Sundays throughout the summer season. They have been paused due to the Coronavirus.
All my photography students receive a printed copy of my Exposure Crib Card. More info on one-to-one and two-to-one photography tuition via the main menu.
In 2008 I created a groundbreaking megapixel photocollage of Manchester city centre. It was displayed at Urbis.
I tutor in GCSE French language. I studied French on a summer school in Paris and made this sketch of Notre Dame Cathedral.
I taught English language to students from Italy and Romania on the EU Erasmus scheme.
I taught English language with the UAE Military from 1992-1996. I took this photo with the Hasselblad 500C.
I taught English on the British Council summer school in Hong Kong. I spent three summers there including visits to mainland China.
My degree is BA/MA Honours in Modern Languages, German and French, from Trinity College Dublin. I spent a memorable 4 years there and still regularly visit Dublin.
I spent my undergraduate year abroad in West Berlin as an Assistant Teacher. I took this panorama in December 1982.
I spent my final summer as an undergraduate in New York, where I worked as projection assistant and student travel adviser. I took this photo on a return visit to New York in 2016.
I did my PGCE in London at what is now Greenwich University. II have a special interest in modern architecture in London.
The dream of owning a VW camper – in German ‘Bulli – turned into a nightmare. An article about this experience was the most popular page on my aidan.co.uk site. Back online soon.
I took this photo on a family visit to the Philippines. I’m a proud member of the Cloud Appreciation Society.
I’m interested in digital illustration and produced this sketch of New York based on photos from the 1930s.
On 20.10.2018, I made a groundbreaking timelapse video of the anti-Brexit march from start to finish, scoring 19,626 views and 521 likes. I am a proud pro-European campaigner and content creator.
I’ve done stills photography on films, including Daddyfox directed by John McCormack and set in Manchester and Corfu.
This image is a still frame from my short film The Train to Funky Island, completed in 2013 and set in my home base of Stockport.
I took the ‘now’ photos for the book Liverpool Then and Now, part of the Batsford then and now series. I also took the photos for the Manchester, Glasgow and Birmingham editions.
I co-authored Around the M60, Manchester’s Orbital Motorway with Matthew Hyde and Peter Portland. It features 75 of my photographs.
I worked at Manchester Airport on the information desk and took this photograph of British Airways Concorde G BOAF. I’ve been an aviation enthusiast since childhood.
My Manchester Mega-Photo was used on the cover of Rebuilding Manchester by Euan Kellie. The book contains 107 of my photographs.
I took this panoramic photo of the exterior of the Hacienda for my website Eyewitness in Manchester (1997-2005). It’s been widely used in books and promotions.
I took these photos at the Bob Dylan tribute concert, organised by the Manchester Digital Music Archive, of which I am a board member.
I was one of the official photographers at the In The City music convention. In 2000 I took photos of Tony as well as Brian Eno, Peter Saville, Mark Owen and others.
At ALL fm, Manchester, I did a radio production course and had a daytime show before leaving to focus on my YouTube channel.
Karen McBride, rock photographer and creative artist took these portrait photographs in 2019.
My multilingual AVZINE channel was officially launched in September 2020. The themes of the channel are cities and journeys. My aim is to reach a wide audience and send out a positive message.