I first got into photography when I was a teenager.

It was around the time of smartphones with cameras and that’s when it became a thing. I loved taking photos of everything. I wasn’t any good but I really enjoyed documenting every single thing.

I guess you could say I got into professional photography by accident.

I used to work in PR and I found a lot of the clients were asking me to take a couple of photos for them because Instagram was becoming really big and businesses needed to start thinking about it a lot more.

It was 2016 when I’d had enough of doing PR, so one day I decided to call myself a photographer. I’d been trialling it for six months or so and then I just took the leap.

My mum and my brother were really encouraging during that time, considering freelance is a risky industry for many. They were like, “You’re good at this, so just try it and give it a shot.”

To support someone to go freelance when they’re trying to pursue something that they’ve never done professionally before is quite a risk.

I never really thought that much about what I was doing, I just liked taking photographs and I was good at it so I decided to give it a shot. That was four and a half years ago, so it turned out well!

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