Ivy Lahon oversees the production of visual content, storytelling, photography and film worldwide, commissioning reportage, creative documentary photography and multimedia. Ivy Lahon - Head of Creative Content and Stories (or Photography Director), Save The Children As a communications specialist with over 20 years experience, Ivy has produced large-scale multi-channel campaigns and photography and film productions across broadcast TV, print, digital, OOH and PR, working with both in-house creative teams and external Creative agencies.

Prior to moving to NGO’s, Ivy worked for ten years as Associate Picture Editor at The Independent and ‘i’ paper commissioning news, portraiture and features photography during some of the biggest breaking global news stories of the decade. In the past she has freelanced on picture desks at The Guardian, The Times and Sunday Times and the FT Magazine and spent 2 years working with Amnesty International on photographic projects including the first book by former Amnesty Secretary General Irene Khan and the imagery for Amnesty’s 50th anniversary in 2011.

She is visiting lecturer in Photography and NGO communications for UK universities including the Royal College of Art, London College of Communication, London Metropolitan, The University of South Wales and has mentored young photographers for over 8 years. Ivy is interested in new takes on classic photojournalism, innovative ways of humanitarian storytelling and the cross over between fine art and documentary photography.

Sheyi Bankale - curator of Next Level Projects and editor of Next Level magazine. Next Level is one of Europe’s seminal art photography magazines with a dynamic mix of photography as contemporary art. The publication features a diverse range of the world’s most influential photo artists. It aims to bring awareness and debate to contemporary culture by showcasing and celebrating artists, across various disciplines alongside inspiring, provocative and critical writing.

Bankale frequently acts as panellist, judge and nominator for The Art Foundation, Google Photography Prize, CONTACT Photography Festival BMW Prize, The Prix Pictet and Next Level Awards. He is a leading expert on photography at major international portfolio reviews such as Houston Fotofest and Les Rencontres D’Arles, Finnish Museum of Photography, Scotiabank CONTACT and facilitates the acquisition of photo art works with international museums, art collectors and private clients. Previously he has been Visiting Professor of Photography at the University of Derby and lectured on ‘Photography as Contemporary Art’ at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, University of Westminster, City University in London, University for the Creative Arts and Centre of Contemporary Art in Lagos. In recent years Bankale has become well known for his curatorial work at Next Level Projects. He curated an extensive touring exhibition on contemporary photography, ‘Alice in Wonderland’, for the European City of Culture 2011. This was the largest exhibition of contemporary photographic art displayed in Finland. He was also a guest curator for Saatchi Art’s Special Guest Curator Programme and the 2015 Curator for the prestigious Photo 50 exhibition at the London Art Fair.

Suki Dhanda is a British Asian photographer with over 20 years of professional experience. She quickly rose to prominence after securing early commissions with major broadsheet magazines and became a regular portrait photographer for The Guardian and The Observer. Known for her ability to capture a wide range of subjects—whether it’s famous actors, musicians, or politicians, or everyday people with incredible stories—Suki’s work is all about making people feel seen. Alongside her commercial and editorial photography, Suki’s personal projects focus on themes of belonging and identity.

She’s particularly drawn to communities in transition, capturing intimate portraits of people in their own environments. Post-Brexit, Dhanda spent six months in Plymouth exploring the changing face of the city’s population, as seen in the diverse community on its sea front. Post 9/11, She documented taxi drivers from the South Asian diaspora, tempted to the US to live the American Dream, but still expressing their cultural identity through language, food and dress. On a similar theme, she went on to shoot the cleaners of London - an immigrant community, shot with dignity - using lighting to halo those people used to passing unnoticed in their place of work..

Eddie Otchere is a British-Ghanaian photographer, cultural chronicler and educator based in South London, England. He is known for his portraiture and documentation of underground youth culture, leading musicians, rappers, vocalists and DJs, spanning from the mid-1990s to early 2000s. His work has been collected by the National Portrait Gallery in London. From 1994 to 1996, Otchere was the official photographer for the jungle music label, Metalheadz.

Otchere captured the underground drum and bass dance scene as it unfolded at the Blue Note nightclub in Hoxton. Otchere has published several books documenting early hip hop and the rave scene, Who Say Reload: The Stories Behind the Classic Drum & Bass Records of the 90s by both Paul Terzulli and Otchere (2021), Spirit Behind the Lens: The Making of a Hip Hop Photographer (2024), as well as many smaller photographic publications with Café Royal Books.

Otchere has long been associated with the British underground electronic dance music scene. His portfolio of pioneering musical artist portraits includes 4hero, Kemistry & Storm, Goldie, Lennie De Ice, DJ Randall, Fabio, Grooverider, Aaliyah, Biggie Smalls, Jeru the Damaja, the Wu-Tang Clan, Omar, Blackstar (Mos Def and Thalib Kweli), Est'elle, and Omar, among others. Otchere's photographic work is in many collections, including that of London's Victoria & Albert Museum.