Remarkable roles: Photo opportunities for optom Graham Coates

‘I remember the whole family gathered in the living room on Boxing Day being subjected to Uncle Frank’s photographic slideshow,’ says Graham Coates an optometrist in Petersfield who works at Morgan-Owan and Coates. ‘It somehow instilled in me the idea that photography was definitely a craft. I was given my first Olympus Trip 35 when I was 10 and I went mad on family holidays taking shots of everything in sight!’

What started as a hobby for a young Coates has now morphed into a passion for photography which has seen him produce stunning works of art in far-flung places such as Ethiopia, the Philippines and Trinidad and Tobago where he did a stint as an optometrist.