The Mass Mentorship is a free professional development programme which champions new voices in architectural photography, supporting emerging talent from underrepresented backgrounds. In a world defined by images more than ever before, the Mass Mentorship gives agency to aspiring young photographers to transform the industry, so that the authorship of the imagery that we use to represent our built environment reflects the diversity of the people who live within it.

Over the past year, the 2025/26 cohort’s four mentees have each been developing a photographic project around a story of their choosing, framed through the architecture of London and its surrounding infrastructure. Together as a collective, they build a picture of the the diversity of the city through its eclectic architecture and the communities that inhabit these spaces, through four projects each following a distinct theme, from spiritual spaces, to diasporic homes, or large-scale infrastructure.

The four featured projects are:

Thirty Stories High
by Iman Dagnoko

A neighbour-led photographic study of West London’s Trellick Tower that shifts the focus from its iconic concrete form to the everyday interiors, objects, and lives that quietly sustain it (image right).

Enjoy Suffolk, While You Can?
by Justine Sauri White

This is an archive of Suffolk’s nuclear age - including the fishermen, caravan vacationers, and second home owners who coexist with two, soon to be three, nuclear sites.

The Shape of Prayer
by Mark Woulfe

An exploration of the relationship between theology and architecture, examining how different interpretations of faith have led to the design of distinct spatial languages.

The Spirit of Pink
by Takenya K. Holness

This project confronts the decay of a once-vibrant Lewisham home belonging to Windrush generation resident Mr. Pink, using its abandonment as a stark lens to expose the fragility of cultural memory, the weight of inheritance, and the erasure of diasporic spaces under gentrification (banner image).