PRO ANNUAL 2018

T rips to motor racing meetings with his dad unexpectedly set Andrew Soul on a life as a motorsport photographer. “I spent my childhood going to Brands Hatch with my Dad, who liked to take a few amateur snaps with his camera,” explained Soul. “A few years back he couldn’t come to an event, so I attempted to use a DSLR for the first time. I hadn’t got a clue what I was doing, but fairly enjoyed it and BAM, suddenly out of nowhere I discovered I had a passion that I didn’t know I had.” However, taking amateur snaps is a far cry from the world of the professional motorsport photographer. So how did Soul make that leap into the professional ranks? “My first break in motorsport came in 2012. I’d got involved in taking photos for a local, semi-pro football team and had built up a relationship with a local paper. I had also been learning and practicing motorsport photography like crazy for a couple of years and thought I could try and do something in front of the fence and achieve a bit of a dream. I knew that the paper wanted to step up its motorsport coverage and that Luciano The Soulman T H R O U G H T H E L E N S Motorsport photographer Andrew Soul reflects on his unexpected life capturing action in the fast lane PRO ANNUAL 2018 84