‘She saw these tarot cards on my table and asked me to read her future. I predicted absolutely nothing’

Before switching to photography I studied fashion, so my early photographs concentrated on that. But, in 1994, I decided that music and people were the subjects I wanted to get involved in. I went into a newsagent and found a music magazine called Touch, which I really liked the look of. After agreeing to look at my fashion portfolio, the editor said: “Well, you’ve got beautiful models here. Can you make boring DJs look as interesting?”

He commissioned me to photograph drum’n’bass DJ General Levy, and it ended up on the cover of the magazine. As a result, I picked up work from DJ Mag – they asked if I was into drum’n’bass and I just went with it. I photographed clubbers at London’s Ministry of Sound – there was a guy in the crowd who really stood out, and I was later excited to discover he was Goldie.