How l became a Sports Photographer

I was a keen photographer from an early age and had a dark room in my brother’s wardrobe when I was 15! I just found it fascinating that you could take a photo and then develop it from a negative in a bowl of chemicals. Developer, Stop then fix. You then hung it up to dry the paper with your red light on so it didn’t affect the photo. Those were the days. Now with digital cameras and mobile phones, everyone is suddenly a photographer. I left school at 18 and worked in Barclays Bank where apart from banking I was selling anything from ladies stockings & tights to Party poppers. I was then headhunted in to Lloyds of London (Insurance), and spent 12 years as an underwriter. Here I was selling fine wines and other items to Brokers & fellow Underwriters as in my spare time I’d take orders and then drive to France to various regions to chateaux and tasting wines before importing them back to sell in the UK. It was therefore no surprise when in 1998 I decided to leave Lloyds and design and build my own wine bar in the City. This lasted two years before I sold the company and in a chance meeting with two men in a pub in Wandsworth, I ended up owning my own fire protection business which I subsequently sold in 2011 to go back to my first love, Photography! I have been working freelance as a professional photographer now for 10 years and my first major job was the BT Sport launch in 2013.

Barbarians vs All Blacks

David Beckham

Rafael Nadal