I’m Simon Ellingworth a full time photography educator & one to one mentor, with over a 15 years experience creating and delivering education for The Royal Photographic Society, I specialise in street, mono photography, composition, gestalt theory available light portraiture. With 47 x International photography awards (14 in the last 12 months) including 3 x ‘Fine Art Photo Awards 2025’, 6 x ‘Mono Vision Awards’, 3 x ‘Monochrome Awards’, and recently, 1st place in the highly contested ‘2024 International Photography Awards’ in the professional category; selected from 14,192 entries from more than 100 countries. During my workshops I like to challenge people’s thinking, change the way they see the world, and provide technical liberation from their camera with simple new ways and techniques to craft compelling images through a lens.