Bob started life as a freelance photographer recording the London glitterazzi in the 1970s. He moved into picture editing and was deputy to Horst Faas, the double Pulitzer prize winning Associated Press photographer. Bob was poached by The Daily Mail to become Night Picture Editor and then Associate Picture Editor. In 1985, he was asked to set up epa, Europe’s first European news photo agency based in Frankfurt. In 1989, Bob joined The Times as Deputy Picture Editor. He became Picture Editor in 2000 and moved into senior management four years later.