“I was out on a date night with my wife when I started to realise the last bits of my sight were going," says Dave Steele. "Everything was going blurry and the light started changing."

“That’s when I knew time was running out to see my family’s faces. I knew I needed to make memories while I still could.”

Dave Steele was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a rare genetic condition which has no treatment, no cure. It causes gradual vision loss, which often leads to complete blindness.

He knew he might one day start to have the condition, as it ran in his mum’s side of the family. But he had been told it would likely not arrive until much later in life.

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Eleven years ago,

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