I studied photography in my late teens to early twenties. When I finished up at college, I didn’t pick up a camera again for about 10 years. I just didn’t enjoy taking pictures anymore, but I kept working in photography as a picture editor on a national newspaper which I still do and still enjoy.
I gradually started to take pictures again, but it was when I was working from home during lockdown and going out for daily walks that I started taking more and more pictures on my phone and got more and more into it.
I decided to do something to challenge myself - something completely out of my comfort zone and that was approaching people in the street and asking if I could take their portrait. I had bought a new camera and learning how to use it was another part of the challenge to myself.
