In an interview Reugels stated "I am a lawyer, and being an undergraduate at university I used to work as a designer at the polygraphy. Photography was my hobby at first. After I got my diploma, I worked as a lawyer for three and a half years. In 2008 I quit my job to become a freelance photographer. It wasn’t as easy as it seemed. The issue is that there is no place where they can teach you to be a photographer: you can learn some theory, but nobody tells you about the commercial side of the profession. But art photography differs from commercial one a lot. That is why I had to learn from my own experience, which was not an easy one, as I got in all possible and invented traps, but I am grateful to that experience from scratch and to the people I met along the way and helped me a lot.