P: Well, what made you want to start photography?
C: I first got into it because I’d been doing it from quite a young age. I got interested and my mum and dad gave me my first camera and I used to take pictures of all sorts of things. I went through school and did a variety of subjects but I decided that I wanted to focus on photography. So I did lots of evening classes and some work experience and also went to college and did a course – it’s gone on from there really. It’s a progressive thing.
P: What type of photography do you specialise in?
C: At the moment I’m doing press photography, so it’s music today. It’s a variety of all sorts of things.
P: What would you take to your average shoot?
C: Well, I’ve got two cameras here. I have to use two because I have to change quickly between two different lenses. [Picks up camera] We have photos lenses on this and on this [picks up another camera] has a shorter lense and it has a flash set up. So if we’ve got two cameras we can be prepared for all sorts of photographs. I've got a computer as well, and this is set up so that I can download pictures with a card reader. There’s software on here and we can sort the photographs and label them, put some captions on. It gets set up here using a router. Once I Photoshop them a bit and caption them, we send them off through the internet and they go to the Getty Images desk and the editor’s there to have a look at them and decide where to send the pictures to, where they’re suitable to go to – newspapers, websites, magazines, that sort of thing. They get sent off there and go around the world.
P: How long have you been with Getty Images?
C: I started with them in 2004 so around about 4 to 5 years. And yeah, it’s great.