Josh Atkin

Living off Baker Street might evoke images of traffic jams or echoes of noise pollution. However, what makes this area such a fun place to live apart from the obvious perks of living in the city centre are the little mews dwellings that are just a turning off the busiest roads. Here a microcosm of community lives and breathes be it through the small pubs, familiar faces or the honest approach of the working man such as the decorator I have documented here.

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Location:London

Light - Enge

I asked my five year old lad to lay the table for Sunday dinner, we usually have candles and I had arranged them in a line, noticing the refracted light, he arranged them thus and took the photo while I was busy dishing up, I was surprised and yet humbled by his creativity. Anyway, here's his offering:


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Jonathan Edwards - Wrecsam, Wales - UK

This was taken in my favourite place in the world (Tokyo). I spotted this advert in Ikebukuro station and thought it would make an ideal Horizon shot. It was only when I got my photographs developed that I noticed the Japanese girl who had wandered into shot and stared directly into the camera. Sometimes you get your films developed and they disappoint, other times, as in this instance, they exceed your expectations completely.

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Christian Wynne - Denbigh, Wales - UK

These photos were taken on my trip from Darwin to Perth down the Western Coast of Australia. This stage was one of the most vivid memories of my entire year travelling, which is strange because it was one of the least photographed.

Enge Gray - London, UK

This was taken by my lad. He's 5 in 9 days and this was one of the results of him being given my digital point and shoot. I just love the captured innocence. Hope you do too.

Venus by Tony

The following pictures were taken by a friend of mine called Chris and show the movers and groovers of Nottingham in the early 90s. Taken at a nightclub in the city called Venus, which I had stumbled upon on my return to the East Midlands on the back of a year in the North West where I’d spent pretty much every Friday night at Nude Night in the Hacienda. Venus had a very cool crowd, into both their music and their fashion. At the same time, it never felt elitist. Looking back at myself as I was twenty years ago has been a strange, bittersweet experience. On the one hand, I wish I was that young again and living for the moment. On the other, it was a time of insecurity and naivety and one in which I had very little money. Still, we had the time of our lives.

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Rest

The realisation that a return to work was only a matter of days away, I decided a getaway was in order. I'd never travelled around the coast of North West Wales before so I headed in that direction. The first day involved enduring the company of the hedge fund, hooray Henry, boating jacket, pastel rugby shirt, 4x4 brigade in the colonised enclave of Abersoch. Fortunately, the next day I stumbled across one of the most beautiful and amazing places I've ever seen - Aberdaron. While walking down an almost entirely deserted stretch of beach, I spotted these two lying against a sea defence wall.

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