Craig rivet interview2/27/2024 So I photographed my family, my friends, I’d bring my camera to camping trips with my mum and dad and brother and that was kind of what I learned to photograph. I've always felt like I'm a people photographer and I still feel like I'm a people photographer now, more than a car photographer. Credit: Amy Shore Photographyĭo you think coming from that slightly unusual start then gave you the ability to look at the subject matter, cars, in a fresh and different way? So my University basically started off my career as it is now, but in a totally different way.Īlfa Romeo P2. In the end the best thing about going to university was that it gave me three or four years of breathing time and space to think about what I wanted to do, and also my student loan, and I got a grant as well because I did quite well in my art foundation, and those things ended up funding my first camera, my first laptop and my Mini actually, my classic mini. To be honest, I have not picked up a soldering torch or anything since I left university. I ended up going down the route of metalsmithing and silversmithing and really found a passion in that. I thought I would end up becoming something like a homeware designer. So yes, I thought to myself, right, I'll do this course, which basically was a multi-craft course working for briefs and designs. ![]() I thought I kind of understand photography and I've got that skill set, but I'll go into university to learn something different so it can give me a possible other skill set that I can then maybe get a job at the end of with, because I had no idea how I was going to make money. So I went down this little path of art and I was quite creative and thought I'd do something around here, and I could do photography as a hobby, but that was it. So this is the funny thing, when I got to university `I thought, ‘I don't really know what I want to do with my life, I'll just do what I enjoy at the moment’. How did that then evolve into automotive photography? I understand you actually studied metalsmithing and jewellery design at university. I can't even begin to express how much I love doing what I do. He was always into cars and the automotive world, so it's a very strange place to find myself in really, but it's become my dream job. So I always thought I might be a weekend wedding photographer because that's what my dad used to do as a bit of pocket money at the weekends. And then with the car side of things, I didn't even know my job existed. I always liked photography and I thought that it would be something I'd love to do at some point, but I didn't think it was realistically a job that I could do and actually survive on. I can't even begin to express how little I thought I would be doing this job. ![]() It's such a weird kind of world I have found myself living, because no, absolutely not. But winding the clock back many years when you were growing up, did you ever imagine or indeed aspire to be doing what you're doing today? Over the past few years you've taken the historic automotive world by storm, bringing a fresh unique style to automotive photography. ![]() Also thanks to Amy for letting us use her photographs.Ĭredit: Drew Deas / Source: Ferrous Magazine Recorded and Produced by Jeremy Hindle & Demir Ametov. We hear about how she got behind the camera lens, some of her strategies for capturing speed in a photograph, hear whether she thinks social media can actually restrict the art of photography, and also hear about one of the Editor's all-time favourite automotive venues, the Bonneville Salt Flats.Ĭharles Clegg interviews Amy Shore for The Apex by Private Collectors Club. She manages to capture the excitement and vibrancy of the automotive passion with an unrivalled and unique style, and is a great example of how young and ambitious people can come and rapidly excel in what is, traditionally at least, a rather antiquated world. Whilst most people will be familiar with her work, if you're not, you may have unknowingly seen her photographs in publications such as Octane, Evo, Petrolicious and Classic Driver, or indeed her superb coverage of events such as the Goodwood Revival. Our interviewee for the Apex this week is the renowned and highly talented automotive photographer Amy Shore.
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