The Social - the free, informal, bi-monthly advice and networking session for photographers, where participants are encouraged to network and join the conversation.

Deliberately informal, each event includes two presentations by photography professionals, who offer tips or advice on the chosen theme, with a short break in between for socialising.

Photographer Yuki Sugiura is joined by Art Director at Octopus Publishing Yasia Williams Leedham to offer tips on the theme of food photography.

Yuki Sugiura is a London-based food and lifestyle photographer. She studied ceramics and graphic design at Camberwell college of Arts in London where she mostly worked on projects about food, space and society using ceramics, printmaking and photography.  She read more cookbooks than artbooks at college. Her work regularly appears in various editorial and commercial platform across the UK and the world including Guardian Feast and FT magazine.

Yasia Williams Leedham has worked as Art Director with Octopus for 15 years on a wide variety of food and wine books, including ‘The Icecreamists’, two ‘Rosa’s Thai’ books, and three 'The Vintage Tea Party' books. She has also been a judge with the Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year for the past four years.