PRO ANNUAL 2018

personalities. Notice how I said some there!! The year working first-hand with the blossoming bromance of Ash Sutton and Josh Cook at MG was great. I’ve worked with Jack Goff for a couple of seasons now and he’s always good for a good facial pose and a laugh, whilst the year of Team BKR in BTCC was probably my favourite all- round garage to work in. There was rarely a dull moment in there, for good or bad reasons, but ultimately through some dramas, it was a place filled with laughter most of the time. I’m lucky that I’ve made a lot of friends in the paddock and therefore it’s always a treat to work with Jade Edwards and Abbie Eaton, although maybe it wouldn’t be at the same time, as I doubt I’d survive it. “Having some kind of previous relationship with a driver can both help and hinder to be honest. I’m very much a reportage-style photographer, so I try and stay in the background, getting natural stuff, so when someone knows you it can make that more difficult. Mr Goff is a prime example of this, as I end up with a vast collection of photos of him pointing at me after each weekend. . . cheers Jack!” Andrew Soul is clearly living his dream, so what does he love most about his job as a motorsport photographer and is there anything that he doesn’t like? “I love that I get to be behind the scenes and see what makes motorsport tick whilst being part of a working paddock,” said Soul. “I will always feel very privileged to be able to do what I do and I will never take it for granted. “The one thing that winds me up the most is the general attitude towards photographers. Everybody expects photos for free and only a few think to credit the photographer when using their images on the internet. People seem to think that you turn up, press a button and that’s it. They don’t see the expensive equipment that takes the picture, the amount of travelling you’ve done to get to that place and the amount of time you spend in front of your laptop after the race.” “Everybody expects photos for free and very few even think to credit the photographer when using their images on the internet” PRO ANNUAL 2018 86