If you’re planning to enter our Urban Life round, which launches next week, take these tips from four of last year’s top ten photographers

The award-winning photographer has just published a book about how to succeed in the medium. Niall Hampton finds out more

When Instagram introduced video, many photographers felt sidelined. So street pro Alan Schaller decided to build his own app and created Irys, that puts photographers and still images back in the limelight. He talks to Benedict Brain about building a new photographers’ place online

Kahran and Regis Bethencourt, the husband and wife behind CreativeSoul Photography, create high-concept portraits of children across the African diaspora, allowing them to tell their unique stories, as Tracy Calder explains

Paul Hill considers…

Jonathon Isola, Chandler, Arizona, USA