About the Author:

Gill Shaw ABIPP AMPA is an international award-winning professional photographer. Based in London, she has been photographing people around the world for more than 20 years and has also amassed an extensive celebrity portfolio and recently launched a new celebrity website. In 1999 her book and photographic exhibition ¡®Slightly Offstage¡¯ raised money for Society of Stars helping children and adults with cerebral palsy and her later book and exhibition ¡®The Hero Inside¡¯ raised money for Help the Heroes, for which she received the Outstanding Achievement Award for Inspirational Photographs. She received the Photographer of the Year award for her support in opening a clinic in Africa for ¡®Support for Africa¡¯ and is currently working on her next project to raise funds for Wellfound, of which she is a trustee, which helps communities install wells and latrines in Africa. Her most recent photographic exhibition Looking Through the Lens at Canal Boat Lives was on view at St Marylebone Art Space, London, in 2023.