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

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

BASED IN NORTHERN IRELAND, Janice Lightowler works in oil and graphite. When working on her oil paintings, she uses only one small brush, irrespective of the size of the piece, and later attaches that

The search for still-life subjects led the artist Kate Friend to some of the greatest gardens and gardeners in the country, discovers Tiffany Daneff

From gleaming presents to inebriating parties, discover five artists’ interpretations of the festive season

From the sunny island of Cyprus, Oksana Shevchenko creates creepy, cute worlds that are overflowing with narrative whimsy. A former lead engineer, she found counting crosses helped her unwind after a