How to shoot portraits

Photography became a part of my life one Sunday in June 2010. When I was 13, my mum sent my dad out to buy strawberries… and he came back with a camera! I started taking pictures everywhere I went and of everything I saw – flowers, dogs, landscapes and everything else, it was all collated into my own little photo album.

I am very much a ‘people-person’. I love chatting and getting to know new people. So, as soon as my photographic confidence grew, I turned my focus to faces. I’d spend hours flicking through pictures in magazines like Cosmopolitan and Glamour to get inspiration, and this inevitably led to me photographing my friends, finding spots around London and creating a portfolio.