My Story.

Growing up as an identical twin in rural Somerset, there was always someone to say yes.

Yes to the fireball football. Yes to the local haunted house. Yes to exploring potholes. Yes to sharing the bottle of vodka Ryan Ball's parents had won in a school raffle with every kid in the playground, aged nine.

The mischief was never really the point – feeling alive was. Making things is part of that.

Back home, his mum was a great cook. BBC Good Food magazines were stacked in every corner of the house. Food was always present, always something to look forward to – whether it was something extraordinary or something comforting. Ryan has never been a snob about it. He loves both ends of the table.

Nobody taught him photography. He taught himself, through trial and error, shooting and reshooting until the frame did what he wanted it to do. Eighteen years later, that instinct is still how he works.

It's an approach that's earned him a place among One Eyeland's World Top 10 Still Life Photographers two years running, an AOP accreditation, and a client list that includes McDonald's, Nando's, Ocado, Lidl, BBC Good Food and Ardbeg Whisky.

On set, Ryan thrives when the team clicks and nobody's taking it too seriously. That's when the brief gets pushed a little further, the idea gets more interesting, and the image gets a lot better.

Ryan is based in London and the South West. Somewhere nearby is his twin, who is probably still saying yes.