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Thrilled to share that I was asked to contribute a few words for the 140th anniversary issue of Amateur Photographer magazine, alongside some true legends of photography! It’s an honour to be part of this historic milestone for a magazine that’s been such a significant part of British photographic history.

This latest, bumper 100-page premium edition is now available to purchase online or at your local newsagent today. Don't miss out on this special issue!




What's inside – highlights:

We look back on AP’s rich history and find out what the magazine means to some very famous photographers.

We also celebrate some iconic images from the past 140 years, while vintage camera expert John Wade looks at the most influential cameras from this period.

Bringing things up to date, we see what kind of camera and lens combination you can now buy for £140, and we reveal the winners of the APOY Landscapes round.

I'm excited to be in the latest issue (08) of Framelines magazine! An interview Q&A feature and an editor's choice of some of my B&W London street photography images.

I'm in good company with so many amazing photographers from around the world packed into this edition, including: Daniel Arnold, Melissa O’Shaughnessy, Robby Müller, Tavepong Pratoomwong, Matt Peers and Melissa O'Shaughnessy.

Framelines magazine is an affordable way to experience the best in street and documentary photography in print.

To check out a sneak peak of Framelines issue 08 or to order your copy: Framelines

I was invited to do a piece on my London street photography for Msafiri (Kenya's official inflight magazine). It features a selection of my favourite taken street photography images and I talk about how I got started in the street genre, my favourite parts of London, and some advise and tips you may find an interesting read!

You can check the latest April-May issue on their website or download it for free: msafirimag.com

Msafiri is a magazine that celebrates Africa and being African. Kenya Airways is immensely proud to play an important role in connecting people across Africa and to the wider world, and every day they are inspired by the extraordinary work, creativity, ambition and zest for life they see being demonstrated across this great continent. In msafiri they wanted to create a magazine that will help you to navigate life’s journey and showcase the essence of what makes Africa so special. msafiri is available in print on all Kenya Airways flights and in digital format (free) on their website and in the msafiri app (search your App Store).

Street Photography Edition of Amateur Photographer Magazine

I'm thrilled to be part of this street photography special, premium issue of Amateur Photographer magazine on sale today! 😊 In it, I reveal some of my top tips & techniques in shooting for success in the streets. This issue also includes features on Nick Turpin of iN-PUBLIC, articles written by Peter Dench and advice on th best cameras to use for street photography, as well as advise on discreet smartphone candid photos! Pick yourself up a copy - out now in all good newsagents or order online.


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I did an interview feature for this months (May) issue of Geographical. The official magazine of the Royal Geographical Society. The interview called 'Colourbox London' includes some of my colour street photography taken in London. I discuss some of my inspirations, living in London and some advice about street photography in general.

You can purchase this issue or subscribe here:

Royal Geographical Society

http://geographical.co.uk/magazine

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Ed's Diner - Soho, London, UK

I'm pleased to be featured in a brand new hardback book publication 'Women Street Photographers' in celebration of 100 international, contemporary professional and amateur woman photographers.

"...Curated by the visual connections between pictures, the images are variously joyful, intriguing and unexpected, offering a kaleidoscopic view of what happens when women across the world are behind the camera"



This is an amazing collection of street photographs, some of which I have never seen before so genuinely thrilled at the high quality of images to muse over in this medium sized coffee-table, hardback book.



Thanks to curator & editor Gulnara Samoilova for putting this together. The book is out this week by Prestel Publishing and is available to order worldwide, from all good bookshops & online via Amazon:

UK - http://amzn.to/30jJf8M
USA - https://amzn.to/30ldZpU
(*Currently trending at #1 in New Releases!) *6th March

I've got an interview feature in the Jessops winter magazine 'IMAGE', currently available in all Jessops stores.
Go grab yourselves a free copy!

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The shortlisted winners of the MyTown contest hosted by ClearChannel were announced this week. Congratulations if you were selected!

As one of the three appointed judges, I/we had the painstaking task of chosen my final 12 out of 100s of images, before meeting all judges and deciding on our final selection. I think the resulting 12 shortlist winners look pretty good together.

The contest has received good coverage from the online news press. Here are the links to a few sites;
The Guardian
Metro News
Daily Mail

There will be a Pop Up event on 5th December. Details below shared from the MyTown website:

On Wednesday 5 December, we’ll be announcing this year’s winner at a pop-up gallery in London.

There will be a selection of images from the competition on display throughout the day, including the shortlisted photos and images from our judges, renowned street photographers Dougie Wallace, Ronya Galka & Linda Wisdom.

The gallery is open to the public, so you can pop along anytime from 11am to 11pm. There is no entrance fee.

Spaces may be more limited in the later part of the day when the winner will be announced.

Wednesday, December 5th 2018

Carousel Next Door, 35 Baker Street, London, W1U 8EN

11:00am – Gallery opens
6:00pm – Winner announced*
11:00pm – Gallery closes


It should be a good day/night. See you there!

Shot on iPhone at Liverpool Street Station, London

4 days x 4 hours = my London street photo tour completed for my visiting guest from Cairo, Egypt.

The up-side to starting a photo walk in London at around 8.00am, in the holiday season between Christmas and New Years, is that the usually super busy tourist locations were more or less deserted, apart from a handful of early risers and work commuters passing through. So it felt quite magical and peaceful at famous London locations like Piccadilly Circus, Oxford Street and St. Pauls.



It was also a great opportunity to explore and research some new side streets and passages, as well as visit some old haunts I haven't been for ages. We met a lot of interesting and cool people along the way and creatively we found some great scenes to photograph. I will revisit some newly discovered cool locations and see if I can nail the ideal shot in the process.

I will review the photos I took over this four-day street photo tour and post any favourites I find on here soon. It was really great fun to do, but also challenging, seeing as I am not your typical early-riser, morning person who gets up at 6.00am! So now I must sleep, with this job done with hopefully no more super early starts for me, for a while at least!


New street art near Brick Lane, London

...according to the Streethunters.net readers.



The results are in. Thank you if you did vote for me and felt I was influential in anyway to you! A few of my influential legends are also in this top 20: Elliott Erwitt, Martin Parr & Joel Meyerowitz.

Anyway, back to work! A busy year for me, with my ongoing 1-2-1 & group workshops, mentoring beginners and more. Glad to have met some very talented, professional and up & coming street photographers from around the world!

To see the full 20 most influential street photographers 2017 (according to streethunter.net readers!), visit StreetHunters.Net run by Spyros Papaspyropoulos.

Vote for the 20 Most Influential Photographers for 2017

I’m on the nominations list for the 20 Most Influential Street Photographers for 2017!

If you like my work, have been on one of my group photo walks or attended one of my workshops and wish to vote for me, please click here.

The deadline to vote is 10th February 2017. Thanks!

Honoured to get an Instagram mention in The Guardian newspaper's article entitled The female street photographers of Instagram. A big thank you to Casey Meshbesher of @womeninstreet for her time, dedication & hard work creating this platform for international women street photographers. Congratulations on the article!

I received another little inclusion in the latest Amateur Photographer magazine.





From a Street Photography 'top tips article in a previous issue, they picked one of my street tips and my black and white Docklands footbridge image to feature in their best of tips for 2017.

Its great bumper Christmas Special issue -Check it aaaaout!.

So, I managed to get my hands on a hard copy of Amateur Photographer magazine and I'm very pleased with what they did with the layout of my double-page feature in this special street photography edition! If you're a beginner or seasoned street tog, and looking for some creative inspiration and pro tips this is the issue to get!

Amateur Photographer is also available to purchase in digital and print versions via their website.

I'm very pleased to announce that I have a two-page spread inside the latest special Street Photography edition of Amateur Photographer magazine. I offer some top tips for achieving great candid shots and street portraits, along with selection of some of my favourite taken images. Out now to download as a digital version or as a printed magazine!

I got a mention in the August edition of N By Norwegian, the inflight magazine for Norwegian Air, who got in touch a few weeks ago to say I was recommended as one of the best leading British street photographers, by the featured Italian photographer Lorenzo Grifantini.😊 ✈️ 📷



With thanks to Lorenzo, who's wonderful Italian beach life series of photographs are featured in this issue along with interview with him. Check it out on pages 69-75.

Honoured to be one of the female street photographers on this updated 2016 list. The list is meant to serve more of a 'who's out there' list rather than a top ten, favourites type list.



As mentioned in Casy's blog post, recognising woman in photography, particularly in the genre of street photography, where we appear to be the minority, when it comes to top streettog lists, featured publications, galleries, exhibitions, received recognition, awards, etc is a step in the right direction. So, am honoured to be in the good company of talented women from around the world, who are also into street photography! Click this link to check out the Female Street Photographers list.

Winners from the British Life Photography Awards were invited to a special Private View evening at the Mall Galleries in London.

It was great to meet and chat to some of the other winners and to see all the winning entries displayed in the exhibition.

We received a copy of the brilliant British Life Photography Awards Portfolio 1 book which all our photos are featured in.

So, I was surfing about on the internet and stumbled across an online photography contest called the British Life Photography Awards. I had heard of them before, but had never entered before as I was either busy doing something else or I missed the entry deadline, etc.

Anyway, last year Spring/Summer I saw there was a street photography category and thought, I'll have a go and sign up, enter a few pics then thought nothing more of it. I actually forgot I had entered.

So, by the time I received a random phone call out of the blue one cold and dark November 2014 evening suggesting I had actually won first place in the Street Life category, I thought it maybe someone's prank until the lady from the BLPAwards at the other end officially described my photo and that she would contact me in writing to officially provide full details of the prize and awards evening next year.

To cut a long story short, I was on strict instruction not to announce my news until it was officially announced by the British Life Photography Awards, which was very difficult for me! But here we are, March 2nd 2015 and I have just seen a article in the Metro newspaper with my street photo included.

I will be going to the Private Evening tonight in fact to collect my prize and meet the other winners.

Check out the photo and the other British Life Photography Award winners on the official BLPA website

I'm pleased to announce that the 'Black And White Street Group' book, 1st edition, is finally here and available in soft cover and hard cover!



As one of the group administrators, I helped in the choosing of the final featured photos used in the book. There is a page feature on some of my work in there also.

Overall it is a great book filled with some very talented international street photographers and a great publication for any photography fan.

Black And White Street Group book can be purchased direct from Blurb: http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/5196251-black-and-white-street-group

Get it!