In my first year, I became the Media secretary of the Squash club. For this role I had to produce content on Instagram on a weekly basis which helped with social media marketing and my colaborating with other members of the club. Combining this with my photography would be a powerful combination. After I began playing squash again, it returned to me, and I started playing fixtures for the team.

I photographed my first squash match in Nottingham during BUCS Individuals, and I began to contact one of the videographers / Photographers (Rob Ellis) at the PSA. He helped me by giving me some tips on photographing squash, which is quite a difficult sport to photograph. It is extremely dark around the court, and you have to photograph through glass the whole time.

In March of last year, I found a tournament that was very local to me, and I contacted Rob to see if he could help me get a press pass. He gave me the email of the person who organises the accreditation for the events. I managed to get accreditation for some of the initial days, and as I impressed them in those days, they allowed me to come for the remainder of the matches.

After this, they asked me if I could photograph some of the events for next season, as one of the photographers had left at the end of the season, they had to get someone to cover some of the events. Despite having only done two squash tournaments, they liked what I produced and thought I had what it took to photograph these events.

CIB Egyptian Open

My first tournament, which I was on the Pay role for, was the CIB Egyptian Open, the second biggest tournament on the calendar. I had a brief of what they wanted me to capture, which included getting at least 10 photos from each match when they were on traditional courts. There were five matches on at all times throughout the first 2 days. For the rest of the days, I would have to get 30 photos from all the games, where there would be one photo at a time. Other things that I had to get were a General View of the court and surrounding areas, and also to photograph the trophy ceremony. On top of this, I had to consistently edit the photos and upload them to Dropbox very promptly

Ace Malaysia Squash Cup

They were very impressed with my work in Egypt, so they asked me if I could photograph two tournaments, one in Malaysia and one in Singapore. I happily accepted. The Malaysia tournament was a bronze-level event at the fifth-highest level. This tournament was much easier than the previous one, as I had to cover the central court. This court was placed in the middle of a shopping centre, which provided me with a fascinating but busy background. This proved more difficult than I thought, but I worked it out in the end. There were certain angles that I could not shoot from, but the majority of angles worked well.

Vitagen Singapore Open

After Malaysia, I flew straight to Singapore, and the next day I began photographing the Singapore Open. Having spent the last week photographing squash and working nonstop, my body started to wear down, which was quite challenging, but I found that if I kept on eating well enough and drinking enough coffee, I would be able to make it throughout the day. I had to photograph the traditional courts on the first day and the central glass court in the evening for this tournament. In the latter stage of the tournament, I faced a problem where my camera's burst mode would not work correctly, but luckily, I had a spare camera, which may have been my old one, but it still managed to get the job done.

German Open

In March, I flew to Germany to photograph the German Open in Hamburg. When I got there, I was given a brief to do a similar thing, but there was more to do than the previous two. Having not photographed any squash for four months, I had slightly forgotten what settings I had been using previously. For this court, it was also quite dark behind the court. For the first 3 days, I had to capture the games on the glass court as well as the traditional courts. At all times during the 3 days, there were matches on 4 courts. This was difficult to stay in top of as there were also a lot of spectators that would get in the way very frequently.