Constant traveller

‘I really needed a challenge and didn’t think studying something that I wasn’t passionate about was going to work.’

When Belgium-born Chris Eyre-Walker was a kid, his parents were frequent travellers. ‘Every year we’d do a big trip somewhere – Africa, Central America, Asia... a lot of places,’ he said. ‘We always had a camera with us, so I got in touch with photography that way. Always having interesting new subjects like that, you get fascinated about capturing those moments and the travels.’

While photography has been a part of his life for a long time, Chris didn’t start to think of himself as a photographer until he was in his twenties. ‘I ended up after high school not knowing what to study, so I went into the army at 18.’ There he joined the paratroopers, saying, ‘I really needed a challenge and didn’t think studying something that I wasn’t