After winning Young Photographer of the Year Clara moved on to work at the Press Association. “I really like PA because I get sent on jobs that aren’t very Times,” she said at the time. “I even had pictures in the Daily Sport when I did the FHM ‘High street honeys’. I was the only girl there, I’m just as proud of that as when I get a picture in The Guardian.”

When Clara arrived at The Times, the picture editor Paul Sanders, told her: “What you do in the next six months is going to affect you much more than the fact you’ve won this.”

That pressure means the Young Photographers create a kind of 24 hour helpline for each other. “It’s quite an overwhelming thing and you need to support each other. When you go out on a job and you don’t want to call the desk you can call one of the others for advice,” she said.

On some jobs, no advice in the world can help, like when you go to take a photo of a very important QC and they arrive an hour late and bark, “I’m a very busy man and I don’t want to be here doing this, so get on with it.” Even after a couple of year’s experience, Clara concedes, “It’s pretty hard in those situations to get the picture you want.”

Clara recently joined The Daily Telegraph.