Portraits with Personalitu!

To be a truly great portrait photographer, youneeda good Wi eye. Here we speak to one such Ke) man, BOBAN JAMES, about his life and work.

- GEORGINA HOCKLEY

Tell us about the path that led you to professional photography.

As a boy, I instinctively took over the Agfa camera that my mother had bought in Germany in the ’70s. I was also the daydreamer in school who’d forget to get off at the right bus stop because my nose was buried in a book. Then life and societal expectations caught up – I worked a corporate career for 12 years, where I largely found myself an unhappy misfit. The one saving grace was that I travelled a lot for work.