JONATHAN CHERRY: What gets you up in the morning?

JAMES WAKELING: An overwhelming sense of guilt that I am not living my life to the full.

JC: Are there any emerging photographers inspiring you at the moment?

JW: Magdalena Wosinska, each of her photos tells a story about a lifestyle, about people you want to meet and places you want to go.

JC: What is your current personal project all about?

JW: It occurred to me that my friends and I were living out a lifestyle so different to those around us, that we had become the ones people would stop and watch, they would ask us about our lives and why we did what we did. This project that is going on at the moment is an attempt to convey how we became so obsessed with the sport of Kiteboarding, how it has come, in many ways, to define our lives and what shape those lives now take.

JC: What initially drew you to photography? 

JW: The desire to preserve moments forever. Our time here is so short and its moves by too quick, photography lets me hold onto those moment I don’t want to ever forget. I first started to pick up a camera when I realised that my life seemed to be disappearing without any record of it being kept, photography started off and is still the way I keep a diary of what is important to me.

JC: Favourite tree?

JW: Silver birch. I love to peel strips of bark off the tree.