Thus, during the winter of 2003 I ventured into a new arena as a professional photographer.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.
I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that.
It wasn't until I realised that I could actually take nice photographs that I started to become passionate about it. I then got a few jobs working for magazines in London, and I would get terribly excited and intense about doing a job and taking photographs and looking through the lens to capture something amazing.
But sports photography isn't something you just pick up overnight. You can't do it once a year for fun and expect to do a good job. And I take pride in what I do.
I've been working with photography for many years.
I've been very lucky, getting to travel the world with professional photographers. I'd grab their equipment, get a few lessons, and start firing shots.
That's true, because I'm a photographer now.
I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition at the College Art Association. The first exhibition I picked the photographs and so on and we had an exhibition in New York.
Aside from my modelling, by the early Nineties I was also starting to work as a photographer, which I loved.
I'll always be an amateur photographer.