Parri Thomas joins the Black Cat Marketing Team (AKA:  Colouring-In Team) as a Digital Content Creator, bringing decades of experience in all things visual media.

After graduating with a degree in Digital and Lens Media (ie. photography and film making) he found himself working at Hamerville Media Group, a magazine publisher and events organiser focusing primarily on the built environment, providing all their in-house photography and video needs: ranging from shooting more trade shows than he can remember, to ice climbing, pot holing and driving a van to Hanover on a single tank of diesel all in the name of creating varied and interesting content.

Along side this, Parri was using his cameras to forge a career in the world of music and entertainment and, after being made redundant in 2016, went full time self employed. The following ten years saw him travel the world to shoot festivals, magazine editorials, and album artwork for the great and the good of the music world. He’s been published everywhere from shooting covers for the likes of The NME and The Big Issue to countless press clippings in most major newspapers.

Post-pandemic Parri briefly hung up the cameras to follow a dream of running a bakery and started a doughnut business with a friend, which is still going strong. If you happen to be in Margate, or an Arsenal fan at the Emirates, be sure to buy a Bombo Doughnut. He promises they’ll change your life.

After a couple of years of getting Bombo Doughnuts off the ground, Parri put down the apron and picked up his cameras again, and has now joined Black Cat Building Consultancy to bring his years of experience and trained eye creating varied and interesting visual content to Black Cat. 🍩

Parri says: “It’s always hard to tempt someone back from the world of self-employment but Black Cat Building Consultancy’s fully transparent business approach along with a ‘people-first’ ethos was too appealing to ignore. And the sheer variety of work I’ll be shooting is staggering. From architectural photography to cinematic drone videos to portraiture, I can’t see myself getting bored any time soon!”

Outside of work, Parri lives in Margate with his partner and their rescue dog Terry. When not trying to wrestle fish out of the dog’s mouth on the beach, Parri enjoys eating out, having opinions about coffee, mountain biking, flying (and crashing and repairing) FPV drones and being lightly addicted to chess (even though he’s still not very good at it).