Award-winning travel photographer/writer Simon Urwin has just finished writing and shooting a six-page spread on NYC’s Lower East Side for Traveller magazine, the UK’s longest running travel magazine.

His feature on a town frozen in time in China has recently been published in Lonely Planet Traveller magazine, as have a words-and-pictures spread from Tibet in Sidetracked magazine, and a picture essay from China in The Guardian newspaper.

Simon Urwin recently completed an epic three-week photo shoot across China and Tibet, beginning in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, and ending at Everest Base Camp. 

In that time, he immersed himself in the world of Yellow Hat Sect monks, lived in a Khampa village deep in the Himalayas, and explored a hidden corner of China, barely changed since the time of the Cultural Revolution.

Images as well as stories written by Simon from the shoot will soon be appearing in Lonely Planet Traveller, Sidetracked and Traveller magazines amongst others.

Simon Urwin’s award-winning portrait photography has been recognised by the likes of Nikon, the Association of Photographers and Taylor Wessing.

As well as being acquired for private art collections in Moscow, Los Angeles and New York, his photography has been published widely with clients including Gestalten Books (Germany), Lonely Planet Traveller (UK and USA), Sidetracked and The Guardian.

A keen off-the-beaten tracker, he travels extensively and has recently returned to London having been immersed in the secret world of the geishas, the incense-making monks of Bhutan, and the living child goddesses of Nepal.