Ian Newton combines the study of communities, their peoples and their expressions of culture and tradition, with a love of scenery, travel and exploration. A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain, he has sailed to Greenland, around Iceland and to the Lofotens in Arctic Norway, as well as traveling in British Columbia, Alaska, the Bering Sea, and Antarctica. These trips have taken him to native communities caught between traditional culture and modern life, as well as to remote and beautiful places.

Closer to home he has brought his photographic lens to the life and culture of East Anglia where he lives, and to religious festivals in the churches of which his wife is the vicar.  His work has been exhibited in Arts-Next-the Sea, in Wells, north Norfolk; in the Picturecraft Gallery, Holt; at Hevenigham Hall; and at village and church events in Suffolk.

He hopes that in his photography he has caught something of the changing world in which we live, of the eternal truths against which that change is set, and of the natural life with whom we share the world.