Photographer · Investigations · Partisan
I'm Charles Pycraft. From 1999 to 2014 I worked as a London press and paparazzi photographer for national newspapers and magazines, and that archive is now licensed through Backgrid. Since 2017 I've supported and followed OffshoreAlert's work and attended its conferences, and I work on offshore and financial investigations.
I work on business development and communications for Partisan, a privacy-focused document integrity platform. Partisan records a file's fingerprint without seeing or keeping the document, gives a dated receipt, and shows a file is unchanged since it was recorded.
The through-line is the same: clear records, careful language, and professional work that is easy for counterparties and compliance teams to deal with.
Those years taught me how stories form and how coverage develops. I now put that to work in research, due diligence and communications advice for clients.
Pictures and stories from my years as a London press and paparazzi photographer, 1999 to 2014.
Offshore finance, asset recovery and the paper trails behind them.
Partisan records a file's fingerprint without seeing or keeping the document, gives a dated receipt, and shows a file is unchanged since it was recorded.