Photographer David Levene

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Graduated from GD in 1999

3rd year project on ultra-orthodox jews in north london

Eventually got picked up by the Guardian First Guardian front page "Peace offer in fire dispute"

70% of the Guardian work is portraits

As a newspaper photographer you're almost always on oyur own, competing against agency people who do news all the time.

Guardian eyewitness started when they switched to Berliner format in 2005 all the picture had to be wide angle, eyelevel, everything in focus with a lot of detail

Book: City

How a French village gears up for the Tour (2016)

The shirt on your back (2014)

Civil war there and now (2015) A making-of type thing