FINE ART OR SOCIAL PHOTOGRAPHY - DON'T JUST THINK IT, DO IT

It's that random time of year again where the UK has a few days of snowfall and the entire country grinds to a halt. Sounds like a great opportunity to make a hot drink, curl up on the sofa and read the latest issue of Digital Photographer magazine (issue 102, out now). I have a four-page article in there this month about setting up a photography business on a budget - anyone who thinks the first thing you need to do is spend a fortune on expensive kit is sadly mistaken.

The article features great advice and contributions from Julia Boggio Studios, social photographer Mary Warren and specialist photographers including mountain bike shooter Seb Rogers. One of the luxuries of writing for DP is that I also get to meet people I greatly admire and interviewing fine art photographer Emily Allchurch for this feature was a real honour. I've admired her work for the last decade and she explains how it is possible to make a living from fine art and how, again, equipment isn't the most important thing - this is an artist who used mobile phone cameras for the BBC's "A Digital Picture of Britain", for example.

Emily's latest show, Tokyo Story, runs at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation from 19th January to March 2011. I'll be heading to London for the exhibition, so stay tuned.