TRE VOR LEIGHTON
When did your passion for photography begin? I started taking pictures as a teenager, but when I was eight years old I used to borrow my dad’s camera and go around pretending to take pictures, even though there was no film in the camera. I’m dyslexic, and that definitely made me a more visual person. When I was 12 or 13, I started assisting local wedding photographers on Saturdays. Later on I did the wedding pictures myself.
Was it a useful experience?
It wasn’t the sort of thing I really wanted to do, but it was the only thing that was happening in Carlisle. Looking back on it now, I realise that a good wedding photographer is someone who goes into a situation and takes control, and it taught me to do that. In that respect, I’m really glad I covered 60 weddings. Then you studied photography at Carlisle College of Art & Design…
The thing about going to art college is that it’s not the college itself that determines how successful you’re going to be – the other students are just as important.
