“When I’m making a portrait, even when I’m doing my research and I have in my head and idea of what I might create, I’m thinking very carefully about building trust. Respect is very important to me. And so I hope there’s like a level of dignity in the way that they’re represented in the photographs. It’s all very much tied together.”

Alys Tomlinson is a British photographer born in 1975 (age 48 years), Brighton, and hove, United Kingdom. Alys studied English Literature and Communications at the University of Leeds. After graduating, she moved to New York for a year and was given her first commission for Time Out, before returning to London to study photography at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. She recently completed a part-time MA in Anthropology of Travel, Tourism and Pilgrimage (Distinction) at SOAS, University of London, which ties in with her long-term, personal project about pilgrimage.

Below are some of Alys Tomlison environmental portraits:

I chose Alys Tomlinson out of all the other artist as an inspiration because I love the way she takes photoshoots and how eye-catching each image is.