Jenny Lewis is an award-winning photographer who embarked on her own projects after a successful career shooting for editorials. She has published three books: Hackney Studios, One Day Young and 100 Years and has exhibited her work around the world. Her intimate portraits focus on people in the East London Community so I wanted to meet her and find our more about her work and inspiration.

Through these unique and deeply personal projects and their subsequent public interventions, Jenny has brought the faces of so called 'ordinary' people to a wider audience. By placing them back into the visual landscape they make the subject feel extraordinary. 

Jenny invited me to her studio space which is a calm oasis alongside the Regent's Canal where large scale images from 100 Years are exhibited outside for by passers to enjoy. Spending time with Jenny in her studio, I quickly realised she has a remarkable gift that we experience through her art - the ability to capture the feeling of living in the moment whilst simultaneously feeling like time has paused.

Special thanks to former guest, Aida Wilde for introducing me to Jenny.