I worked in the offshore industry for 20 years.
In 2000, I bought a second-hand digital camera at a Cash Converter in Belfast. It was nothing more than a little box. I wasn’t interested in photography until I could edit the photos on the computer. I was a multibeam data processor, so I picked up photo editing in no time. Since then, I’ve always taken my camera with me. I’ve been to places with names like Nogliki and Bintulu, I’ve worked at Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong’s airport, and had lunch on the little island of Po Toi. In 2001, on the Black Sea, our ship, the Academic Golytsin, was ordered by President Putin to the crash site of a passenger plane, shot down by Ukraine. I’ve seen a lot. Now I enjoy my life in Frace.