LIFE THROUGH A LENS COLIN McMASTER
‘I’VE HAD HARDER JOBS!’ JOKES COLIN McMaster over the phone as we talk five time zones apart. McMaster is in Barbados, on a job for spectacular American rally driver Ken Block, awaiting the obligatory Covid test results that will allow him to leave his villa… and the pool… by a beach. Rallying certainly isn’t always that glamorous, but it was the joy of travel that played a big part in why McMaster made the switch from his initial career path shooting Formula 1.
‘I really liked the freedom of rallying and the photographic opportunities it presented,’ he explains. ‘When you work at circuits, you fly to the country, pick up your hire car, and then you’re hotel, track, hotel, track, whatever, back to the airport – you never see the country, you just see the circuit. With a rally you travel around the country, or the region where the rally’s based. It just woke me up to what travel was really about. So basically I just fell in love with rallying.’
McMaster’s path into photography started at 11 years old, when he was gifted a camera for his birthday. ‘It took 110 cartridge film, which is a tiny, horrible little
