As an experienced writer, editor and consultant across print and digital, I've spent just under a decade producing profiles, features, reviews and investigative stories on both emerging and established names in the industry. Specialising in art, photography and culture, I'm particularly interested in championing working class creatives through my work, and providing a platform for underrepresented talent. I've had bylines published in AnOther, Elephant, It's Nice That, WePresent, D&AD, Sixteen Journal, Creative Boom, One Magazine, Feature Shoot, Creative Lives in Progress, Whitelies, Coeval, Exit Magazine, SixtySix, The Brand Identity among others. I'm also a writer at Port magazine, please email ayla@port-magazine.com with pitches and releases.
I've also spent the past five years working as a freelance writer and editor at It's Nice That, during which I've written nearly 1,000 articles for the site. I'm also currently commissioning and editing the long-form features, so please do get in touch with any pitches/ideas!
Alongside my editorial projects, I've worked with a number of brands on research, writing, strategy and consultancy. Selected clients: Anyways, Adobe, Chanel, Wix, The Directors Library.
- “I don’t want to do anything about dying anymore”: Marina Abramović on why she’s had enough of death
- “All you see is lazy photography everywhere”: Martin Parr in conversation with It’s Nice That
- An exclusive chat with photographer Chris Killip and his son – who uncovered a lost archive of an 80s punk venue
- How Will the Coronavirus Crisis Affect Emerging Artists and Galleries?
- Rivers of Ice: An interview with photographer and explorer Klaus Thymann
- How Can Illustration Be Used as an Effective Tool for Activism?
- In conversation with Roger Deakins
- Shot by a group of 10-15-year-olds, Grange Farm Book documents life on a disappearing London council estate
- Photojournalist Shahidul Alam on his new book and notorious 101-day incarceration
- 1970s Photos Immortalising the Style and Stars of Studio 54
- “It all feels so new to me”: Leonard Suryajaya on the four-year project that changed his life (NSFW)
- “I began to question the honesty of it”: Stacy Kranitz on the flaws of documentary photography
- Jim Goldberg publishes unseen polaroids from his seminal body of work, Raised by Wolves – a documentation of marginalised youths in LA and San Fransisco
- Paris’ Women Artists, Photographed in the Intimacy of their Studios
- Ofir Berman offers a portal into one of Jerusalem’s oldest Jewish neighbourhoods, the Mea Shearim
- John Myers discusses his latest photobook – a compilation of his most notable (and boring) works shot in 1970’s Stourbridge
- Renowned photographer Bruce Davidson revisits the humour, stoicism and complexities of 1960s Britain
- Secrecy and Sexuality in the Collages of Katrien de Blauwer
- Ewen Spencer: While You Were Sleeping
- Cut, warped and distorted: Conor Cunningham discovers a new approach to photography thanks to lockdown
- The history of Snake: How the Nokia game defined a new era for the mobile industry
- Mundane: A reflection over the idleness and contentment of lockdown