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

Traditional skills, Photoshop, ZBrush & Blender

The director, production designer and 3D vis-dev artist reveals that music was his first creative outlet…

Opera is dead. And has been for quite a long time. I don’t care what anybody says about Poulenc and Prokofiev, I cannot be persuaded that any listenable music theatre has been written since Puccini. (

The Dream by Henri Rousseau

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