The sun is setting on our Fortune beach Boil-Up in Newfoundland, Canada. We sip our tea from patterned china cups, looking out at the lapping waves, and Brian tells us this is…
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Festivals India Photo of the Week PhotographyHoli Cow! Celebrating the Powder-Filled Colour Festival in Rural India
There’s nothing quite like India’s Holi Festival. Anywhere else in the world, a pink-paint-splattered cow wandering through the streets might seem a bit strange. But in India, nobody bats an eyelid.…
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Behind the Blog Challenges Personal PhotographyFacing Forwards: Why I’m Done with the Insta-Fame Game
“Shall I take a photo of you?” It’s a sun-soaked day in early June, and I’m walking through Shoreditch with a group of bloggers I’ve never met. In my hands I’m…
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When you grow up in the UK, Paris is an extremely common city to visit. I’ve spent a lot of time here over the years: school trips with History of Art class…
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Before arriving in Arezzo, Italy, I’d only seen this little town on-screen. But from the moment I stepped inside Antonio’s small second-floor apartment, I knew I was going to like Arezzo…
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My first morning above the Arctic Circle was nothing like I expected. I woke with a start at 2.45am. The expedition ship was pitching and rolling like a mad thing: coats on…
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Challenges England Photography What the hell? WomenSea of Hull: Why I Got Naked & Blue with Three Thousand People
At 4am in a park in Hull, Spencer Tunick held up a megaphone and told me to strip. Thankfully, I wasn’t the only person he was talking to. The crowds of people…
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“Shall we walk home through the city?” Beverley and I had been out for lunch on a sunny Sunday in London’s Southbank, treating ourselves to burgers and beers beside a window…
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“Ooh, look! A partridge!” “… A pheasant, you mean?” Gill looked at me quizzically from the driver’s seat. On the grassy kerb beside my window, the long-tail-feathered bird twitched his bright…
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High up in the Rif mountains of Morocco, past a succession of hairpin bends and steep cliffs dropping down to nothingness, is a town that’s entirely blue. The reasons that led the community…