Simon Urwin’s award-winning portrait photography has been recognised by the likes of Nikon, the Association of Photographers and Taylor Wessing.

As well as being acquired for private art collections in Moscow, Los Angeles and New York, his photography has been published widely with clients including Gestalten Books (Germany), Lonely Planet Traveller (UK and USA), Sidetracked and The Guardian.

A keen off-the-beaten tracker, he travels extensively and has recently returned to London having been immersed in the secret world of the geishas, the incense-making monks of Bhutan, and the living child goddesses of Nepal.