Your name
Victor Frankowski.

Job title
Photographer and coffee consultant.

Where do you work?
In and around London at different location mostly but I do get to travel for work around the world for three months of the year.

What does your daily job involve?
As I’m a freelancer my job changes day to day. I go from teaching coffee courses and training people to photographing gigs and going on tour with bands. I also work on my own projects and spend a lot of time in front of a computer editing photos! Over the summer I spend about two months shooting festivals all through the UK and that makes things pretty busy.

What did you study?
Photomedia at the Sydney College of the Art in Australia as well as an exchange in Malmo in Sweden.

What was your first job?
When I was at university I started to assist a photographer who I worked with for two years as well as working in cafes on the weekends.

What do you wish you had known before you started?
That work and life can become one and the same, I wouldn’t have stressed so much when I was younger.

What’s been your most memorable achievement to date?
Going to the USA to shoot SXSW music festival and then going on tour in NY to shoot a feature on Brother.

What tips would you give anyone wishing to get into your area of the creative industries?
Keep trying and be proud of your work, because if you believe in yourself people will believe in you.  

Who or what inspires you? Where can people get more information about you and what you do:
Heaps of things. My friends, people who I work with, what I see around me.

For more information, please see www.victorfrankowski.com or NME.