Matt Barker

MPB founder

Matt combined his two passions, photography and maths, to create MPB from what started as a student project whilst studying Economics at the University of Warwick.

Since founding MPB in 2011, Matt has scaled MPB through 3 rounds of funding to 200+ employees based out of Brighton in the UK, Berlin in Germany & New York in the US. MPB is now the world's largest online platform for photographers & videographers to buy, sell and trade kit, circulating more than 300,000 items of used kit every year. Matt is on a mission to make photography kit more accessible, more affordable and more sustainable for visual storytellers around the globe.

Andy Blackmore

Picture Editor, City A.M.

Andy Blackmore has been in the business of photography for more than 40 years. He is currently picture editor and chief photographer with the financial newspaper City A.M., while previously he’s been chief photographer and picture editor at Metro, and picture editor of the Independent on Sunday, The Independent and the Guardian.

Amy Davies

Features Editor, Amateur Photographer magazine

Amy has been working in the photography industry since 2009 working across a variety of photography titles. Currently one of the Features Editors for Amateur Photographer, she also freelances for many other publications, using and reviewing all of the latest photography equipment. She has been a photographer for just over 15 years, and has had her images published in a wide variety of magazines and books, as well as exhibiting her work in a number of exhibitions.

Geoff Harris

Deputy Editor, Amateur Photographer magazine

Geoff is the Deputy Editor of AP and a veteran photography journalist with over 20 years magazine experience. He is the former editor of Digital Camera and PhotoPlus magazines, and is also a keen photographer. Geoff reached the finals of the 2016 Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year competition, and also runs a successful wedding and portrait photography business in his spare time.

Hollie Latham-Hucker

Technique Editor, AP magazine

Hollie joined Amateur Photographer in 2016 and now works as Technique Editor. Prior to working at AP, she worked on PhotoPlus magazine for nearly five years as a Staff Writer and then Technique Editor. She also has a 1st Class BA(Hons) degree in Photography from the University of Plymouth, where she studied from 2007-2010.

Ailsa McWhinnie

Project Manager, APOY Awards

Ailsa’s first job in photography magazines was back in 1994. Since then, she has gone on to work on a number of titles, and she edited Black & White Photography magazine for its first seven years. She has also authored and edited a number of books, including bestseller The Complete Photography Manual. Although she still harbours a love of film photography and darkroom printing, she has recently (finally) dipped her toe into digital.

Jessica Miller

Deputy Online Editor, Amateur Photographer magazine

Jessica studied Fine Art at Loughborough University, where she specialised in photography. She has continued her photographic practice, which involves street, travel and landscape genres, using both digital and film. She also enjoys multiple exposures and intentional camera movement. In 2020, Jessica also studied MA Museums, Galleries and Contemporary Culture at University of Westminster, where she curated the online photography exhibition Materiality Exposed and graduated with Distinction. She joined Amateur Photographer in 2021.

Dominique Nok

Photographer and Curator

Dominique Nok is a Black female portrait photographer and curator. With more than 20 years’ experience as a commercial photographer, she has been a magazine editor and has a Bachelor’s degree in (photo) Journalism and a Masters in Curating. Dominique is passionate about championing female artists from the African diaspora and from Black, Asian and Global Majority heritage.