Collaborators

As TCOLondon grows, nothing proves more rewarding than meeting good people and creating amazing work with their help. Our global network of collaborators are a valued extension of our own creative community.

Words

From London to LA, we have a network of talented writers who are able to offer an intimate perspective from some of the world's most stimulating locations.

Pictures

We work regularly with photographers, illustrators and artists of the highest quality, matching their skills to exciting creative briefs.

Al McKinnon - Behemoth

Al Mackinnon

Al Mackinnon turned down a desk-job as photo editor at Geographical Magazine to pursue a life spent chasing waves.

Alex Wade

Alex Wade

Alex Wade is a writer, freelance journalist and occasional media lawyer.

Amy Brown photographed by Paul Willoughby

Amy Brown

Amy Brown is an illustrator whose work dallies with all things kooky and surreal.

Andy Miller

Andy Miller

Andy Miller’s illustrations exist somewhere between the past, the present and some far-off future.

Cyrus Shahrad

Cyrus Shahrad

An ex-native of Tehran, Cyrus is one of the UK’s foremost experts on Iranian youth culture, and can regularly be found reporting from the front line.

Gemma Freeman

Gemma Freeman

Gemma Freeman is a multimedia journalist with an addiction to sliding sideways.

Vancouver Fisherman photographed by Guy Martin

Guy Martin

Guy Martin is an award-winning documentary photographer from the windswept South Cornish coast.

Jamie Brisick on the Cover of Surfer magazine 1988

Jamie Brisick

Jamie Brisick has written two books and his stories have appeared in Huck, The New York Times, The Guardian, Details, and New York.

Jason Wood

Jason Wood

Jason Wood is the Director of Programming at Curzon Cinemas, and a noted expert on Latin American film.

Jay Riggio photographed Pierre Prospero

Jay Riggio

Jay Riggio is a Brooklyn-based writer and editor.

Jonathan Crocker photographed by Paul Willoughby

Jonathan Crocker

Jonathan Crocker has established himself as one of the UK’s most talented and entertaining film journalists.

Justin Mitchell photographed on the set of Rio Breaks

Justin Mitchell

Justin Mitchell is an LA-based filmmaker.

Kevin Maher

Kevin Maher

Kevin Maher is one of the best film critics in the country.

King Adz

King Adz

King Adz left his former life as a filmmaker and advertising exec to pick up a pen and do what he loves best.

Lawrence Pearce

Lawrence Pearce

Lawrence Pearce made his first feature film, Night Junkies, at the age of 25, and has recently finished his first graphic novel, Cain’s Awakening.

Mark Taplin illustration

Mark Taplin

Influenced by reading too many 2000AD comics, illustrator Mark Taplin has worked across the fluctuating boundaries of the still and moving image.

Eastpak Throwdown photographed by Mattia Zoppelaro

Mattia Zoppellaro

Mattia Zoppellaro is an Italian photographer based in London, and one of the most exciting talents in his trade.

Billie Neilson photographed by Max Hamilton

Max Hamilton

Max Hamilton is a London-based photographer whose nose for a story has led him as far a field as China on more than one occasion.

Michael Fordham by Paul Willoughby

Michael Fordham

Michael Fordham is a writer, surfer and part of the rapidly disappearing tribe of old-skool magazine journalists.

Nike Sportswear – Firefly Jacket (Dir. Mike Brett / Steve Jamison)

Mike Brett

Mike Brett is a former freelance film writer-turned-director.

Miles Masterson

Miles Masterson

Miles Masterson is a South African journalist whose saltwater addiction informs everything he does.

Bam Margera photographed by Nate Bressler

Nate Bressler

Nate Bressler is a former archaeologist-turned-photographer whose itchy feet keep him flitting between the Californian coastline and the bayous of the Deep South.

Olly Zanetti photographed by Paul Willoughby

Olly Zanetti

Olly Zanetti is a writer who, following a recent diversion into academia, has found himself in the midst of a PhD.

Bike Messenger photographed by Paul Calver

Paul Calver

Paul Calver is a London-based photographer whose penchant for riding bikes tends to seep into his work.

Thurso photographed by Richie Hopson

Richie Hopson

Richie Hopson approaches the skateboard the only way knows. With reverence. And skill. Badass skill.

Ruth Carruthers

Ruth Carruthers

Ruth Carruthers is a writer and photographer who uses her craft to, literally, help save the world.

Sam Ashby

Sam Ashby

Sam has been working as a designer specialising in film posters for the past 5 years.

Bat For Lashes photographed by Sam Christmas

Sam Christmas

Sam Christmas is TCOLondon’s longest serving photographer, and in the years that we’ve know him has become one of the UK’s leading talents in portrait photography.

Sarah Bentley

Sarah Bentley

Sarah Bentley is a writer who understands the importance of experiencing things first-hand.

Scott-Bourne self portrait writing 'A Room With No Windows'

Scott Bourne

Scott Bourne is a skater, journalist, photographer, model, poet and all-around work horse.

James Cox photographed by Spencer Murphy

Spencer Murphy

When it comes to capturing iconic figures in a statuesque fashion, Spencer Murphy is the man.

Steve Watson photographed by Paul Willoughby

Steve Watson

Steve Watson is the editor of Virgin Trains’ Hot Line magazine, but his true passion is independent publishing.

Tetsuhiko Endo

Tetsuhiko Endo

Tetsuhiko Endo is a writer because he is categorically unfit to be anything else.

Zoe Oksanen

Zoe Oksanen

Zoe Oksanen is to snowboarding what a prophet is to, like, the future.