I’m Simon Ellingworth a full time photography educator & one to one mentor, with over a decades experience creating and delivering education for The Royal Photographic Society, I specialise in street, black and white photograph, composition, gestalt theory available light portraiture.

With over 26 x International photography awards including 6 x ‘Mono Vision Awards’, 3 x ‘Monochrome Awards’, 3 x ‘Sony Awards’ and most recently, 1st place in the highly contested ‘2024 International Photography Awards’ in the professional category; selected from 14,000 entries from more than 100 countries.

During my workshops I like to challenge people’s thinking, change the way they see the world, and provide technical liberation from their camera with simple new ways and techniques to craft compelling images through a lens.