My Story

I had always been creative since I was a kid, but it was never something that I ever considered to be something I should dive into. It was always overshadowed by my other interests at the time, and it stayed like that well into my teens. Things only changed for me when I started doing my A-levels. I didn't know what direction I wanted to take and I decided to give photography a go. I had taken pictures with my phone every now and then but that was the upper limit of what I knew.

After about a week had gone by of my photography course, my dad surprised me with my first camera. It was a Canon EOS 100D. First thing I did was go out and instantly take some pictures. I had no idea how a camera worked, what any of the buttons meant, what settings and all that stuff I should use but I knew the more I used the camera and the more familiar with it I got, the better my pictures would come out to be. So from there, it was non stop pictures, every weekend I would take my mountain bike out and ride around the area with my camera.

I took thousands of pictures, everything just came so easy, I genuinely saw the world in a different way to everyone else and the more I went out the more apparent that was. While doing my A-levels, I had to research other photographers, I had to take pictures in their style and write about it. I never cared for any of that, I never saw the point, why would I take pictures like them when I can take pictures like me? From my perspective, the reason why my photos looked the way they did is because that's just how I saw the world, that's what makes photography what it is.

Throughout the two years of A-level I started to develop my style, I started to learn what I liked to do, how I liked to edit, what I liked to focus on and why. I started using strong grain more and more, messing with colours and selective colouring. It was starting to feel like more than just photography, more than a simple point and shoot at what looked cool. I experimented with text and liquification in my own photography, my instagram changed from a social profile to a personal portfolio of self portraits, and then from there that expanded to creating more profiles to present more of my pictures.

After my A-levels were done I went to university and took the astronomy route, but almost instantly I felt like something was wrong. I continued with the year, my photography never stopped, every commute I had my camera with me riding through central London, it was only near the end of my first year I started to question what I really wanted to do. The realisation that regardless of what profession I find myself in, photography would always be something I would find myself doing, so why not just do that? Why not focus on being a creative? So I left uni and did just that. Long story short, that is how I ended up here, thousands of pictures in my portfolio selling prints of my work, trying to put my creativity out there in the world.