Meet Charlie Chan, a surgeon by day and a rock star photographer at night.
Charlie Chan is a breast cancer and melanoma surgeon. This is a career path he chose at a tender age of 12. In his words “I decided to become a surgeon at the age of 12 and concentrated on that.”
But apart from his surgical knife, there is another tool he holds in high regard, a camera. Chan developed a hobby in photography at the age of 15 and he never looked back.
He got his first press pass from the Cheltenham Jazz Festival and started music photography work 10 years ago.
His subjects include musicians Jamie Cullum, Gregory Porter and Wilko Johnson, who was encouraged by Mr Chan to seek a second opinion after he had received a terminal pancreatic cancer diagnosis in 2013.
Mr Chan arranged for Johnson to see surgeon Emmanuel Huguet, who later operated to remove the tumour and save his life.
Mr Chan says he uses similar skills in both professions. When shooting in black and white, he sees “light and composition which helps my day job, when performing a breast reconstruction, as you appreciate light and form in the same way”.