AIRLOCKIssue 01 Adventure is worthwhile in itself 3

The Conversation Lou is an award-winning photographer and part of the Spacesuit leadership team. She is 28 and from Kent, UK. Swedish racing driver Mikaela, 27, is the Continental development driver for the Lou Johnson + forthcoming all-electric rally series .

Mikaela Ahlin-Kottulinsky Images: Shiv Gohil / Spacesuit Media

when I was younger, either. My parents Quattro, crashes and the never forced me to go into it. I tried hand-me-down go-kart go‑karts when I was six. I was very small so I couldn’t reach the pedals. My dad put a piece of wood on the throttle to MAK: My grandfather was a works make it go. But I couldn’t reach the driver for Audi. He helped develop brakes and I smashed into a lamppost! Quattro, which was used in a VW when he raced in the 1980 Paris-Dakar race – LJ: The first time I drove anything, it and they won! was a golf buggy and I hit a tree. My mum then started rallying. She met my dad, who was also a rally driver MAK: You had a bad start as well! But and the son of another rally driver. we overcame it to do what we love. MAK: I tried Both my grandmothers did at least one go‑karts when I rally each. And my brother went from LJ: You and I were both really lucky go-karts into rallying. For me, there that our parents were so open-minded. was six. I was very was a lot of motorsport right from the My dad doesn’t realise that a lot of my beginning. passion for motorsport has come from small so I couldn’t him and those early memories. My mum reach the pedals. LJ: I’ve heard of motorsport being in and dad never said… the blood before but that’s amazing! I My dad put a piece put my love of motor racing down to my MAK: …“You can’t do that”… parents, too. of wood on the My dad worked for an Audi LJ: Yeah, or can you be a lawyer or throttle to make it dealership. I spent my Saturdays with something. They just said: “If you want him at the showroom, sitting on his lap to go and take pictures of cars, go and go. But I couldn’t as he drove the cars in and out of the take pictures of cars.” garage. When he attended events at reach the brakes Brands Hatch, I would go along when I MAK: It took six years before I tried go- and I smashed into was three or four and sit under the table, karting again. One day, my brother, who doing colouring in. Later, I’d watch the is a year older than me, was selling his a lamppost! races with my face pressed against the first go-kart. I was used to inheriting his window. However, there was a period, old things, like his bicycles. My family maybe between the ages of eight and 15, was having dinner and suddenly I said, where I didn’t really like motorsport. “Aren’t I going to inherit this go‑kart?” My parents were very surprised! MAK: I wasn’t into motorsport at all Surprised but happy. 5

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racetracks. I realised it was always about That happy soul feeling the racing with me and that it always would be. MAK: If you’d have Whatever may be happening in my MAK: I’ll tell you a secret: I’m not so personal life, everything seems to just good with left and right! Especially in asked me three years go away when I’m trackside. It might situations where I’m super stressed. So ago if I would do be raining and I know I could be sat at rallying didn’t seem to be an option for home with a coffee under a blanket, me. But on tracks, I could do lap after offroad racing I would and I think, “Why am I doing this?!” lap with no mistakes, so I thought this is And then the cars come out and I take a the type of motorsport I should do after have said – errr, no. photo and that’s why. go-karting. But maybe I’m like I can’t quite explain why it drives me My parents told me that if I wanted and why it’s a thing I can’t live without. to race, I would have to find sponsors Pippi Longstocking. Especially now, when I can’t physically myself. I looked at the budgets and I be at a racetrack, I try to remember that realised – phew, formula cars is going to I think: “I haven’t feeling. be tough! I did touring cars, then I tried tried that but I could For a very long time, one of my goals out rallycross and I instantly loved it! was to win the Motorsport UK Young That was the first time I realised I don’t probably do it. Let’s Motorsport Photographer of the Year have to be so super focused on what I award. I won it at the beginning of this have in my mind for the future. I could just try it out and see year and that was amazing and then, also be open to other opportunities. how it goes.” within three months… That’s what happened with Extreme E. If you’d have asked me three MAK: Everything just shut down. years ago if I would do offroad racing I would have said – errr, no. But maybe LJ: Yes – and I’ve realised I can’t live I’m like Pippi Longstocking. I think: “I without racing. It just makes my soul haven’t tried that but I could probably said ten years ago that I wanted to be happy. Does that make sense? do it. Let’s just try it out and see how it involved in electric racing. And now I goes.” adore . (And that fibre optic MAK: I get the same thing! When I’m shoot turned out brilliantly.) super nervous before a race, I also think, LJ: I’m learning to take that “What’s “Why am I doing this?” But in the race, the worst that can happen?” approach MAK: The world is changing so when everything is going right, I too get too. I get very apprehensive about new much that you have to be open to that ‘happy soul’ feeling. Motorsport is things. Last year, Mahindra Racing opportunities that come to you. Just one of the few things that can make me wanted me to do a shoot with fibre optic look where you are now. I guess you really sad but also one of the few things lighting. I had two days’ notice to figure have had a few struggles along the way, that can make me the happiest person it out. At first, I thought, “Oh no, this so what is it that motivates you? Is it the in the world. is terrifying.” But I am learning to keep passion of doing the job? saying yes. LJ: I totally get that. I couldn’t put it When you try things out, you LJ: I think so, yes. When I did my degree any better. develop and grow. I would never had in photography, I kept ending up at 7

The Conversation

Self-acceptance is a beautiful thing

MAK: I’ve worked with a mental performance coach since 2017. In the past, if I had a bad weekend, I really blamed myself as if I were a bad person. Then my coach said: “if you had a bad weekend, you are not a bad person. Divide the two. Try to figure out why you had a bad drive; then you can let go and move on.” Of course, it’s still tough but, now, it’s not about me being a bad person or not being good enough. It’s just me having a bad day and that happens. I still know how to drive cars.

LJ: In a similar way to you, I focus on the weekend and there’s no outside world really. But if I’m not having a great time of it and I’m stressed, that can show in my work, and then that makes me even more stressed. I hadn’t realised how up and down it would make my mood. I’ve learned that it’s not the worst thing to walk away and have a moment to myself. I call my Spacesuit colleagues and friends and family. I also have a MAK: If you had a counsellor who’s been helping me to rationalise the good points and the bad bad weekend, you points and how I move on. You can’t underestimate how helpful people like are not a bad that can be. person. Divide the MAK: Super helpful. Everyone needs a two. Try to figure mental performance coach. There is so much pressure and you have maybe five out why you had or six weekends a year and you just can’t a bad drive; then have a bad day. My coach helps me think about three you can let go and areas: ‘God’s business’ (things none of us can control, like the weather); ‘their move on. business’ (things others can control, like other racing drivers’ results); and ‘my business’ (things I can control). I have to forget the first two areas and just focus on what I can do better. It sounds easy but it’s not so easy.

LJ: I think I’m going to steal that. 9

The Conversation

No ice, no media pass, Inspiring people, no excuses Driving the inspiring places

MAK: When Extreme E gets to MAK: My mum is one of my role Greenland, we’re not even going to race Odyssey 21 models. I know it sounds cheesy. But she on ice. The ice is melting away. So we was a rally driver and she has been in will be racing on sand and gravel. That’s that world. She gives me a lot of advice. a sad thing. Everybody knows there MAK: Driving the car is a lot like ice driving, the way you have to My other role model is Annika is . There are people work with the throttle to turn the car while drifting. It has huge pitch Sorenstam. She’s probably the best who turn off the TV as soon as climate too. It’s like a combination of an off-road buggy and ice driving. female golf player there is – and she also change is mentioned. But by bringing That’s why I love the electric powertrain. You can turn the car played against the men. There were a sport to show it, people will actually see really easily with the throttle. You have this instant power; there’s no lot of people who didn’t like that. But what climate change looks like in the delay like you have in normal (ICE) cars. she just kept her head really cool and places we visit. We have a new technology called Conti Connect, a live update for focused on doing her thing, pushing her The coronavirus has put back tyre temperature and pressure, that will be available to the drivers limits, trying to go one step further. testing. In the meantime, I’m trying to and the engineers in real time. There is space for women in drive off-road on fields and on gravel From Goodwood to , it was a huge development. There motorsport and we are wanted in here in Sweden, to gain even more were a few issues. Sometimes we lost the power steering – I’m quite motorsport. We need to show that we experience. Actually, every winter, when strong but it’s a heavy car! But I believe when Ken Block was driving want to feature females in motorsport. there is no racing, I drive normal cars on the car at the Dakar all those issues had been fixed. That’s a big step towards it becoming the ice. I did that for the first time when There were some development issues with understeer. Going 50/50. I was 10 years old. on power you had a lot of pitch towards the rear and it was easy for the front tyres to spin. But we were addressing those things already LJ: Towards it being normal! For LJ: What? That’s amazing! during testing, with the motor in the front and in the rear. my part, I’m inspired by classic The tyres are pretty much developed now. We actually started photographers and how they tell MAK: It’s Sweden! developing it before the car was ready because time was short. stories. There’s a photographer I adore There’s just one tyre for all the different surfaces we’ll be racing on. called Paul Graham, how he can depict LJ: I taught myself to get panning personality in a single photo of pink shots stood in my parents’ driveway, slippers. I think about that when I’m getting photos of cars going backwards trying to capture the stories of racing and forwards on the road outside. You drivers or mechanics or engineers or don’t have to be at a track to learn that. anyone else who works at a racetrack. People can say, “I can’t do that because I’m not accredited.” But everyone has a MAK: I’ve always had ‘climb a phone, everyone can take photos. mountain’ on my bucket list. It would be It’s inspirational to hear you say, “I really cool to drive there in Extreme E can’t go and drive this car right now so and then climb the Himalayas. I’m going to go drive something else that’s similar.” LJ: If I could only go to one place, I would go back to the Great Ocean Road MAK: Like you say, it’s about trying to in Australia. be creative. You try to find other ways to get close to what you love. MAK: Sweden is quite beautiful as well…

LJ: I’ve never been to Sweden.

MAK: If you come next winter, I will take you to the ice and we’ll do some driving.

LJ: I’ll hold you to that!  11

The Shot

Monster truck, mini studio Images: Shiv Gohil / Spacesuit Media

It was still dark when Extreme E’s film guru Tommy and I arrived at the studio tucked away in a little French village. We had spent the previous day shooting the Odyssey 21 test near Paris. Today’s Alejandro Agag said studio shots would be the first the world would see of this new electric off-road to me: “Shall I stand racer and the media team had a specific on the car?” Stand – look in mind. But the studio hadn’t been designed on this carbon-fibre for such a large vehicle. The doorway was barely an inch wider than the car. prototype racing car Once inside, there were maybe two which probably cost or three feet around the car. The only side that had more space also had a more than a flat in structural column right in the middle. And we only had a couple of hours with London? the car before it was being shipped to Me being me, I said: Goodwood for the car’s global debut at the Festival of Speed. “Definitely!” We threw the shot-list out the window and went rogue. Instead of positioning the lights at the sides of the car, we mounted them above on a special crane system. I did a series of shallow depth-of-field shots. That got us positioned outside Goodwood House. a long way, but it didn’t solve the issue Extreme E boss Alejandro Agag said of getting wide shots to show the whole to me: “Shall I stand on the car?” Stand car, which we needed. – on this carbon-fibre prototype racing To capture the front of the car, I had car which probably cost more than a flat to stand in the driveway to the studio in London? The studio hadn’t and shoot through two sets of open Me being me, I said: “Definitely!” doors. As it was a sunny day and the car Some of the Spark crew said it wasn’t been designed was in darkness in the studio, I couldn’t a good idea. The car is built around a actually see it on the viewfinder. I think tubular frame; the carbon fibre skin on for such a large it turned out all right in the end. the roof is really just waterproofing and was never designed to be stood on. vehicle. The Alejandro climbed up anyway, like a --- doorway was barely cat onto a roof, and stood up. I took the Two days later, another country, photo and tried not to call him Jack.  an inch wider than another shoot. The Odyssey 21 had the car. been unveiled at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Later that evening, it was Shiv Gohil is artistic director at Spacesuit. 13

The Tech

Spaceframe Scarbs investigates

What lies beneath the skin of the Odyssey 21? Craig Scarborough turns Sherlock to decode the tech.

It’s important to say firstly that neither their rally raid spec, which has a damper Somewhere, there will also be a radiator Extreme E nor rod diameter of 60mm. Wheel travel is to cool the battery but I haven’t have released many specific technical approx 385mm. pinpointed that yet. details about the new Odyssey 21, so An electrical steering rack is Regenerative braking is provided what follows is my informed opinion mounted low down behind the front though there are no public details about rather than official information. axle line. that yet. Rear motor package Front motor package

Bodywork: Carbon fibre body panels, Powertrain: all-wheel-drive electric Wheels, brakes and tyres: OZ wheels including front and rear clams, side system totalling 400kW output and with six stud pattern, identical front and Williams Advanced Engineering battery panels, sill panels and roof with scoop. 920Nm torque. There are two separate rear. Continental tyres with diameter Gull wing doors! The initial package is front and rear motor packages, with 94cm. Six-piston brake calipers supplied made by Spark but teams will be able no mechanical link between the front by Alcon (probably their rally raid spec) to design and build their own panels and rear. Torque distribution is via and ventilated iron brake discs. Brake by to align with their road car design electronic control. Each motor package wire system; rear system operates the language. consists of a transverse mounted MGU “handbrake” function. (electric motor generator) and inverter Chassis: Spec chassis designed by above a reduction gear train down to the Cockpit: A relatively simple set-up. No Spark. Tubular spaceframe fabricated differential. There are no separate gear gear lever, no clutch pedal or paddle, no from steel tubing strengthened with ratios or clutch. handbrake lever, no mechanical brake niobium, a metal with the strength of The front motor package sits ahead bias adjuster. The OMP steering wheel titanium and the ductility of iron. Each of the front axle line, giving a forwards- is 380mm diameter and supports two space frame uses approx 100m of tube. biased weight distribution. Both motor electrical buttons and two Cosworth A double floor (possibly to house packages are identical and can be used paddles. The paddles operate the Cosworth Omega dash display batteries) with upper roll hoops forms front and rear. electronic handbrake. the cockpit area. An extension to the The prototype vehicle uses a Connectivity between the steering Cosworth switch panel front supports the front powertrain McLaren Applied Technology battery, wheel controls and main loom is via and suspension; a bolt-on subframe derived from the Formula E Gen2 car, coiled cable, and not a steering column end connector. Unusually for a racing supports the front radiators. At the rear, but the race cars will use batteries from ECU rotary controls there’s a further large compartment Williams Advanced Engineering with car, there’s no carbon fibre steering (possibly for batteries) and a wider declared output of 54kWh. If they are wheel with controls and buttons. extension to support the rear powertrain mounted under the double floor and Seats have been supplied by both Master power control and suspension. in the rear compartment, this would Recaro (Ken Block video) and Corbeau. Mounted to the doorway cross- echo Williams’ work with their concept They are matched with full six-point braces are anti-intrusion panels, to FW-EVX chassis and the Aston Martin harnesses. protect the occupants, while around the Rapide-E (albeit reversed in layout). In the centre of the dash console rear compartment is a similar anti- Cooling is provided for each of the is the stack of displays and controls, intrusion panel (possibly to protect the separate motor packages. At the front, including a Cosworth Omega ICD dash battery/electronics). there are two radiators mounted on a display, Cosworth rubber switch panel, There’s double wishbone suspension, tubular subframe; air enters through ECU rotary controls and master on/off  front and rear. Both sets use the same the front bumper and exits over the switches. Performance Dimensions mounting points on chassis and upright, bonnet. At the rear, the roof scoop reducing cost and number of spares feeds air to radiators mounted high up 400kW power 1650kg weight needed, with a single coilover at each in the rear compartment. Each radiator Craig Scarborough is a technical 920Nm torque 2300mm width 4400mm length corner (many rally raid vehicles run package sits in a cooling circuit that journalist and illustrator whose work has 200kph top speed 1846mm height 1998mm track two coilovers per corner). PKN supply passes through the motor and inverter. appeared in every notable motorsport 4.5s 0-62mph 450mm ride height 385mm wheel travel journal around the world. 54kWh battery 3760mm (3000mm officially) 15

The Tech

Building the Are your photos Clean cars = My top killing Odyssey 21 our world? dirty planet? five There’s an unseen environmental Albums for flying cost to storing and distributing digital images that often goes unremarked. Melanie Pequet is a mechanical engineer at Spark Those packets of data shoot around So you’ve bought an electric car to help save the planet. globe in the cloud – harmless, right? Screamadelica Primal Scream Racing Technology. She specialises in chassis design on Wrong. Bravo. But the chemicals you’re using to wash your car Early 90’s gamechanger with a blend of Internet companies use data centres, quality house and dub. The late Andrew Spark’s Formula E and Extreme E programmes. huge warehouses full of servers, to may be killing aquatic life. Weatherall’s remixes are sublime, keep the cloud alive. Not only must the especially Higher Than The Sun. Saw servers be powered night and day, but them at Glastonbury in 1992...just wish I the internal environments of these giant could remember it! Right now, we are between tests. We complexes must be carefully controlled I’ve never agreed with labelling any is conducted on ingredients, we learn are working on the prototype car to run to prevent the computer hardware from cleaning products as ‘environmentally more about their potential impact. the new Williams battery and we’ve overheating. Cue large, complex climate friendly’ because they all have some Until recently, for example, it was Closing Time Tom Waits control systems. Added together, these started to receive eight sets of parts effect on the natural world, to a greater thought that citrus d-limonene The first incarnation of Waits was for the series. As we race in different In F1, you just work on factors mean data centres consume vast or lesser degree. (which is basically the oil from orange quantities of energy. amazing (before he turned into the environments, we will learn and we will a small part. Here, we Conventional car care products have peel) was totally harmless to the Cookie Monster circa 1981’s mental update. It will be constant evolution. Whether you and your not been kind to our planet. They’re environment. Research has since shown started with a blank sheet photographers use Google, Dropbox, Swordfishtrombones). Late night bar Formula E is all about small, often made with strongly acidic or that d-limonene is actually toxic to blues and torch songs which peak with lightweight parts. Extreme E is huge WeTransfer, Photoshelter or some other alkaline ingredients, which can damage aquatic life. It’s also flammable. There of paper and I love seeing system for your image libraries, do you the amazing Martha, a bittersweet parts. Every time we design something car surfaces as well as being hazardous are alternatives available but they can lament to lost love. on the computer, it looks really small; the car now assembled in know what impact your actions are to users and the environment. Trying cost up to six times as much, a price then we receive the part and it’s really having in energy terms? to create more pH-neutral chemistries, difference the market wouldn’t support. huge! When you stand next to the the workshop. We’ve tried to address this when it which many manufacturers are Manufacturers certainly bear some White Album The Beatles Odyssey 21 car, it’s quite impressive. comes to our own actions. Rather than now doing, necessitates the use of responsibility. We must carefully If you don’t like The Beatles then you I find the symmetry interesting: the relying on third-party applications, and preservatives, which brings a different research each formulation and consider simply don’t have a soul. This has some front and rear axles are the same. You thereby relinquishing control over our set of complex considerations that are the effects our products may have to duds but they are forgotten next to just turn them around. The suspension, environmental footprint, we built our no less important. the environment, just as we ensure our some absolute classics: While My Guitar the wheels – they’re the same all round; own platform. Legislation is helping in many products won’t harm our customers. Gently Weeps, Julia, Mother Nature’s Son the attachment points on the uprights I started loving motorsport when I Spacesuit Collections is powered parts of the world; as more research In turn, we rely on legislators to help and the truly mesmeric Blackbird. for the steering are the same. It’s was seven or eight. I was watching two by pioneering propriety software. us know the likely impacts of specific cheaper to build, cheaper for spares, and famous racing drivers fighting it out in At its core, secure cryptographic chemicals and, therefore, which to avoid easier to transport parts. F1. One of them was struggling with his functions eliminate duplication, detect when researching new formulae. This Mezzanine Massive Attack car and I wanted to make the car better file corruption and guarantee data has helped us find replacements for to make him go faster. That became integrity and security. This unique d-limonene in our products. An eclectic wonderland that my dream. It wasn’t about the specific technology allows us to intelligently The consumer has a role to play soundtracked a personal two-week driver, really. I just knew I wanted to store and retrieve millions of files – Until recently, it was here, too. Study the labels. Look at what odyssey in France ’98 which left me broke – physically and financially. Not develop cars to make them faster. quickly, accurately and efficiently. Our thought that citrus is going into the bottles. The effect of F1 is not the right thing to do for innovations have also dramatically cut washing your car once a week with a a truly easy listen compared to the me at the moment. Environmental energy consumption (compared with d-limonene (the oil product that could cause environmental sumptuous Blue Lines and Protection issues for me are really important, and conventional alternatives), allowing us damage may seem relatively small but it albums but all the better for it. I also love working on a project from to fuel Spacesuit Collections’ dedicated from orange peel) was isn’t when you multiply that by all users the beginning through to the end. In servers with 100% renewable power. totally harmless to the around the world. Blue Joni Mitchell F1, you just work on a small part. Here, Any person, brand or company who Next time you wash your car, think we started with a blank sheet of paper wishes to minimise their own carbon environment. Research about what you’re washing into the I’d listen to Joni Mitchell playing a kazoo We’re a small team. We have and I love seeing the car now assembled footprint must also consider that of ground and the waterways. If you’re while drunk. Blue is the obvious choice, three engineers in mechanical, one in in the workshop. I can’t wait to see all their supply chain and select their has since shown that unsure, shoot me a note. I’d be happy to with the wonderful California which I always play while walking into the surfaces, one in electronics, one doing eight cars running together. partners accordingly - and that includes d-limonene is actually decode the labels for you.  analysis, one doing CFD. It means we What will I do next? I don’t know. their photographers.  Formula E paddock at Les Invalides.  can do everything. At the moment, for I hope we will have a better planet in toxic to aquatic life. example, I’m not doing chassis stuff. the future, and that we can find good projects to entertain people while I’m working with buyers, suppliers and Jamie Sheldrick is a creative at Spacesuit Greg Spink is the managing director at keeping the planet clean. We’ll see.  mechanics to make sure everyone has and leads the collective’s technology ValetPro, a manufacturer of car care Sam Smith (no, not that Sam Smith; not the right parts to build the cars. initiatives. products for professional use. that one either) is a walking motorsport encyclopaedia and is resident Formula E specialist at the-race.com. 17

The Opinion Every time our creatives start talking about the ‘white balance’ camera setting, I giggle. Then I stop.

Colour-blind creatives are Image: Dan Bathie / Spacesuit Media good for the world

My grandad was a proud part of the blindness, looking at people through Windrush generation. He was from a the lens of what they do and how they prominent family on the tiny island behave, not what they look like. Living paradise of Grenada but he chose to in a mixed heritage household probably cross the treacherous Atlantic Ocean to helped, though that has meant I am a help rebuild a country ravaged even in complete tourist when it comes to the (or, perhaps, because of) victory. food of all of my grandparents. I only Grandad left behind nutmeg, giant learned to drink Guinness recently and I turtles and unspeakably beautiful can’t deal with rum at all. beaches for three jobs in London. He Spacesuit looks very different from had a day job, a night job, a weekend job. the motorsport context it was born into. He spent years as a night maintenance Shiv, Spacesuit co-founder, is of Indian technician on the Tube and as a tailor. descent. Our principal cinematographer, (He was also a father of four – Mikey, is French-African. Half our imagining what my aunties and my dad leadership team is female. These are must have been like as kids, I’d have all unusual attributes in Western hidden in tunnels too.) motorsport, even today. We have created Grandad and Granny spent thirty a multicultural, multi-faceted collective years watching Hammersmith evolve, and we’re better for it. and then they went home to Grenada. When photographers apply to Six months later, she died. He, the old Spacesuit – and they do, frequently workhorse, kept right on going until – it is not enough simply to not look a couple of years back. I think his at them. Yes, we look their photos once uniformly-red Volvo 240 is still first. The stories, the compositions rumbling around the island. and the glorious, glorious colours. We My dad was one of the first in that welcome people who share our sense community to attend university, where of adventure and who want to create he read mathematics and learned to a different type of content – bold, dismantle any traces of a Caribbean powerful, unconventional. accent. Many at that time knew they But to avoid becoming an echo needed middle-class vowels for middle- chamber, we have to look past the class jobs; not just the immigrants, but portfolios. Building a team is not a also those from the countryside, from passive thing. I spend hours every the north, from Scotland and Wales. My day searching out those whose vision, other Granny, from Galway in Ireland, character and, yes, diversity could did the same. There’s a quiet tragedy in introduce something fresh, vibrant and that divestiture of identity and a quiet challenging to the way we do things. triumph in winning the game. It’s time-consuming. It’s difficult. It’s We welcome people who share our sense of adventure Race, culture, background, identity. I continuous. Often, it’s thankless and and who want to create a different type of content – am the product of immigrants, but also unseen. And it’s absolutely worth doing. more and also less. A confusing fog of Get the white balance right and the bold, powerful, unconventional. heritage jostling with present descended whole picture looks better. It just does. on my teen years and lifted late in my Perhaps it’s not just creatives who could twenties. This is not a unique story but learn that lesson.  it’s where my sense of adventure and gung-ho attitude to risk were born. My parents and my faith have also instilled in me a sort of colour- Ross Ringham is director at Spacesuit. Unconventional portraits Seascapes and surfaces

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