Reader’s Digest: PhotoYou

I love taking pictures – it’s the unspoken journalism, and much easier than keeping a diary (I’m no Sam Pepys). But writing for PhotoYou (as well as editing two issues), a photography magazine published by Reader’s Digest, has been both humbling and awe-inspiring – I find myself having to lift my jaw up from the ground as I watch professionals and masters at work. From the great Magnum photojournalist Abbas and Aquabumps shutterdude Eugene Tay to some of the best contemporary travel and food photographers such as Penny De Los Santos (Saveur, National Geographic) and Dave Hagerman (New York Times, Travel + Leisure), you can’t help but want to complement their stunning images with the most beautiful words you can summon.