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

Food writer and chef Dominique Woolf goes in search of her heritage and the tamarind sauce that inspired her journey as a cook

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