I did not start with photography. I started with music.

Making things has always been the constant. Drawing, graffiti, producing music, singing, dancing. The camera arrived late and for a very practical reason: I wanted to record and produce music videos, and nobody else was going to do it for me.

The camera never left

What was meant to be a tool for something else turned into the thing itself. Photography combined everything I had been doing separately. Meeting people, being creative, making something that outlasts the day it was made.

For a long time photography, and weddings in particular, were the centre of the work. It never felt like a job, because it put together all the parts that gave me energy anyway: people, their own story, and the chance to catch something that only existed for a second.

A year on the road

Between 2018 and 2019 my wife, our three kids, two dogs and I travelled the world. It was not a sabbatical and not a project. We simply went.

That year changed the way I look through a lens more than any workshop ever did. Different light, different faces, different architecture, different ideas about what a good photograph even is. You come back with fewer certainties and better instincts.

Where it went from there

The work widened over time. Portrait, editorial, lifestyle, commercial, automotive. Stills and film, usually both. I shoot, direct, edit and grade, which means the thing that leaves my hands looks like the thing I saw when I pressed the shutter.

Fifteen years in, the reason has not moved.