Patrick Steel

Arthur Steel (my father), now retired, was a renowned Fleet Street Photographer () and because of his career I literally grew up surrounded by cameras. From the age of seven I would help him print black and white images in the darkroom. Later on in life I studied Photography for a year at College and became a window cleaner throughout this period to help finance myself. After a fortnight of unpaid work experience I was offered a full time job at London's largest photographic studio, Holborn Studios. I worked there for two years as a studio assistant and then went on to assist as a freelancer for a further eight years travelling extensively around the globe on assignments working with some of the world's leading Photographers. During this time, I mainly assisted Portrait Photographers such as Terry O'Neill and was lucky enough to have personally met and worked with Her Majesty The Queen, Michael Jackson, David Bowie and Elizabeth Taylor, to name a few.

Since then, I've worked as a Freelance Professional Photographer, working closely with advertising agencies, design companies and interior designers.

However, for a number of years I suffered with Atrial Fibrillation and in the summer of 2015 I underwent an invasive heart proced...