LIFE THROUGH A LENS DEAN SMITH

‘I WAS NEVER INTO PHOTOGRAPHY WHEN I was growing up. In fact I’m pretty sure I didn’t pick up a camera until I was 21.’ Not words you’d expect to hear from one of the brightest talents on the automotive photography scene. But as you quickly come to learn, very little of Dean Smith’s career trajectory can be termed conventional.

‘I hated school. Left at 16. If I could have left earlier I would have! I didn’t go to college or uni. I ended up working in a glass factory. Then I did a two-year National Training Scheme with IBM as I had a vague interest in computers at school, but then the recession hit so the IBM thing went kaput. So I went back to the glass factory. Then