Weekend Warriors

My Photo scholarship 2011 entry

United Kingdom | Thursday, October 6, 2011 | 5 photos

I began a path into Photography through Parkour and Freerunning in 2006. Not being the most skilled acrobat, I was unable to continue training at a satisfactory level after roughly 3 years.
I did not, however, want to give up the opportunities Parkour had presented to my friends and I.
We had already experienced the thrill of travel, meeting new people, breaking boundaries in a new urban culture and to begin to see the world in a new and unique way.

Rather than give up, I picked up the camera to photograph for my team.

I continue to photograph Parkour to this day, yet it is not my only passion. Photography has become a potential career for me and the drive for travel and adventure has become forefront in my ambitions.
As often as possible friends any I pile in to a car or train and go as far as our budget will take us. We're often to be found walking, hiking, climbing, bouldering, or simply swimming a lake or two and cliff jumping. All this of course with myself and lens in tow.

Often the demands of the activity limit the equipment I can carry. For the above set I was limited to a single body & battery, and a single lens. I often feel this is when my best photography is produced. My constraints and limits force me to innovate and deliver a view that perhaps would not otherwise have been captured.

This sense of adventure and challenge drive my photography. Without the subject, the shutter remains closed.

It was a difficult decision not to submit a set from the World Scout Jamboree or from another foreign place. It felt appropriate however to show my photography at it's heart, on an expedition.

When I am asked why I am interested in Photography, the answer is that for as long as I have held it, the camera has been my passport to the places I wanted to go.