MYLONDON 2025 exhibition book

Exhibition book cover: Nathanael took this shot sitting in a bicycle taxi (pedicab) on Westminster Bridge

Nathanael's shot of the Elizabeth Tower (more commonly known as Big Ben) won two prizes in the annual MYLONDON contest: Third Place People's Choice, based on the votes of 1,200 people online and in London locations including the London Photo Show and Spitalfields Market and Third Place from the Selection panel, made up of professionals in the photography industry including the London regional organiser of the Royal Photographic Society David Hicks and the editor of Amateur Photography magazine Nigel Atherton. Below is Nathanael describing how he got this shot.

Nathanael said he was walking over Westminster Bridge when he had an idea to get a shot of the Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben) and a London bus from the reflection in the side mirror on a pedicab. “Normally I’m shy approaching people but this time I took the risk and asked [the driver].” The driver said yes and even moved his pedicab for Nathan to get the perfect shot. Nathanael lives in a Providence Row hostel in Whitechapel. Third Place (Judges’ Choice) and Third Place (Public Choice)

The MYLONDON book for 2025

This book, which could be described as a "zine", includes articles and the full 2025 MYLONDON exhibition.

The first MYLONDON contest was in July 2013, when 100 Fujifilm one-time-use 35mm film cameras were given to people who have experienced homelessness. People were given a camera and given seven days to capture London through their eyes.

A lot has changed since 2013, including changes with technology. Digital photography has been around a long time, but the more that time passes, the more people don't understand film photography. In fact, giving out the cameras has become more of a procedure, with in depth training on how the camera works.

This year we decided to follow the experience we have had in Mumbai and Munich in recent years and distribute fewer cameras, but with more training. We gave out 43 cameras and received 40 back, a decent number considering we used to get 80 from 100 back in a normal year.

Since 2015 the local branch of The Royal Photographic Society (RPS) has given free digital photography workshops to participants in our project. The results of this have helped raise the standard of photography in the MYLONDON contest, so much so that this year we decided to produce two 2026 calendar designs (four calendar sizes or two each). All of the photos in the two calendars are in this coffee table book.

Everyone who returned a camera was asked to choose three photos for the exhibition.

The most popular photos will be given a full page in the book. Above is the most popular photo (people's vote).

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