Alright, so who’s actually behind RYNR?
I’m James — a photographer, videographer, occasional DJ and full-time collector of expensive hobbies. RYNR started pretty simply: I liked taking photos, making videos and messing around with anything involving a camera, so I decided to put it all under one roof and see what happened. A few cameras, questionable financial decisions and a lot of late nights later, here we are.
Most of what I shoot sits around three things: music, events and cars. Concerts are probably where I feel most at home — usually somewhere near the front, getting absolutely battered by the crowd while trying to keep a camera steady. I love the unpredictability of live music and the fact that you get one chance to catch a moment. There's no asking an artist to do that jump again because you missed focus.
Events are much the same. Whether it's a packed venue, a launch, a party, a festival or something completely random, I'm interested in the stuff that actually gives the event its character. The people, the atmosphere, the chaos, the tiny details and those moments that nobody planned but somehow end up being the best part of the night.
Then there's cars. I've always liked them, and photography has given me a very good excuse to spend even more time around them. I’m still learning my way around the mechanical side of things, so I know enough to appreciate a good build and not enough to confidently explain why it works. What I do know is how to make one look good. Put a decent car in front of me and I'll probably find a way to spend far too long walking around it looking for the shot.
Outside of photography and video, I'm usually doing something music-related. I DJ, collect records, go to far too many gigs and generally have some sort of playlist, camera or half-finished creative idea going on. A lot of that inevitably finds its way back into RYNR, which is probably why it doesn't really feel like a traditional photography business.
I'm not trying to make everything look perfectly polished or turn every shoot into a corporate campaign. I like work with some personality to it. Things that feel real, look good and actually make you want to be there. Sometimes that's a perfectly composed shot. Sometimes it's a completely chaotic photo that somehow ends up being the best one from the night.
At the end of the day, I started RYNR because I wanted to make cool things, work with cool people and have a pretty good excuse to keep taking cameras everywhere I go.
So that's me.
