Willie Honohan on Fstoppers

Top News Media

I have been a photographer for a very long time, and although I pride myself as a freelance photographer I am a slave to the corporate world that is media. I am the Senior Editor at Top News Media and have been involved with them as a photographer over the last 2 decades. I moved to England with my family when I was 14 years old where I was training to be an Olympic athlete at the time which would introduced me to meeting some pretty famous people. This lead me to wanting to capture these moments knowing that they would not last forever. In the beginning my photos would never turn out and one day the guy who owned the camera shop started teaching me what I was doing wrong and introduced me to this thing called a light meter which I still have. The time he spent teaching me, then started to lead me towards shooting other things, like bands, singer songwriters who’s music I loved, as well as other sports. Which back then was mostly skateboarding, muay thai, boxing and surfing. My first photo that I ever sold for money and was not someone I new, or someone that felt bad for me, was of Princess Diana that I had shot while at Wimbledon in 1988 while trying to meet Steffi Graf. I didn’t even have my drivers license yet so my friends and I took a train from Manchester to London and we scalped tickets so we could get in. I brought my camera just incase I was actually able to meet her. Met a real photographer who showed his editor my stuff and the rest is history!!!

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