Tristan Bejawn — Photographer & Director of Photography, London

Tristan
Bejawn

Portrait & Documentary — London

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Clients

The Guardian · i-D · National Geographic Traveller · BBC Studios · MTV / Paramount · Magnum Photos · Google · Meta · Burberry · Miu Miu · McLaren · British Airways · Starbucks · Sky · Shopify · Anthropic · AXA · Bupa · NSPCC · Method · Uncommon Creative Studio · TBWA · Publicis · Imagination · The Brooklyn Brothers · Taylor Herring · DDA PR · Mayor of London · Isle of Wight Festival

Woman in a floral dress on a London street at dusk — Picturehouse commission

Joshua standing in his kitchen — Portrait of Britain — London — Portrait of Britain

Black and white portrait with locs falling over the face, for i-D — for i-D

Punjab

Two sisters standing together by the water

Young chorister in vestments outside a cathedral

Woman in a blue jumper by window light — London

Drawn Out

London · UK drill & the young lives around it

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Thirty-two photographs.

Amritsar

Pink wedding canopies strung above an alley of parked scooters, Punjab

Bejauli — Punjab

Bejauli

Punjab

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Twenty-seven photographs.

Hawa Mahal — Jaipur

Pigeons rising over a gate on a Jaipur street — Jaipur

Two figures watching the lake palace at sunset — Jaipur

A train passing through a Tokyo subway platform — Tokyo

Neon reflected in the canal at night, Osaka — Osaka

Vermilion torii gates at Fushimi-Inari — Kyoto

Four men in djellabas on a bench, Chefchaouen — Chefchaouen

Portrait of a cigarette vendor against a red wall, Nepal — Nepal

The Himalaya at dusk above the valley — Nepal

Capri town stacked below the cliff at dusk — Capri

Three men on a bench above the sea, Capri — Capri

Empty tables outside a gelateria at night, Capri — Capri — after closing

Shwedagon Pagoda lit gold on wet stone, Yangon

Shwedagon Pagoda — Yangon

A conductor riding the open door of a Yangon bus — Yangon

A passenger at the window of the Mandalay Express, the market beyond

The Mandalay Express — Myanmar

A monk in the carriage of the Mandalay Express — Aboard the Mandalay Express

In print

Commissioned features — National Geographic Traveller

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National Geographic Traveller Photography, Myanmar issue — cover — National Geographic Traveller Photography — cover

Passengers and vendors aboard the Mandalay Express — The Mandalay Express

Trackside villages along the Mandalay line — The Mandalay Express

Shwedagon Pagoda at night, Yangon — Yangon — Shwedagon

Capri — long weekends, opening spread — Capri — opening spread

A statue above the Faraglioni, Capri — Capri

Older woman in a zebra-print top, emerging from darkness

Woman in a tartan scarf caught in hard winter sun, London bus stop

Stop Q — London

Stop Q — a walkable exhibition · Camberwell Green

Enter the exhibition

Young man in a fur-lined hood, winter sun on his face

Handwritten notes held in sunlight above the pavement

Woman with curled hair crossing the road in low sun

Silver-haired man waiting beside a red London bus

Commuter lit by a blade of light in shadow

Guardians — London

Property guardian seated in a wing-back chair

Property guardian in a red jumper, wing-back chair

Property guardian with long locs, wing-back chair

Property guardian seated, former office building

Property guardian seated in an empty communal space

Property guardian seated, photographed on film

Enduring Love

Elderly couple resting on benches by the fair

Elderly couple walking with a blue suitcase, English seaside

Hattisar — Nepal

Thaipusam — Batu Caves, Malaysia12 frames

The edit

Pilgrims resting on the temple stairs at dawn

Thaipusam — Malaysia

The golden Murugan statue above the Batu Caves stairs

Devotees moving through the night, Thaipusam

McLaren

The campaigns

Advertising & branded documentary

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A fighter outside his gym, Sky Documentaries — Sky Documentaries

Three fighters outside Underground gym, Sky Documentaries — Sky Documentaries

Young people talking on an estate, Google — Google

Two friends laughing in a bar, British Airways — British Airways

A man with a football balanced on his head, Meta — Meta

A woman falling back into foam, method — method

A woman in a shop mirror, Shopify — Shopify

Case studies

British Airways

method

Shopify

Mayor of London

Picturehouse

The Guardian

National Geographic Traveller

Editorial

Two artists photographed for RADAR Magazine — RADAR Magazine

Kenny Allstar beneath the underpass — Kenny Allstar

Franklyn photographed for i-D Magazine — Franklyn — for i-D Magazine

Linford Christie laughing, photographed for PUMA — PUMA

Traveller Photography Magazine cover — Myanmar

The Mandalay Express — editorial spread — National Geographic Traveller — The Mandalay Express

Motion

A handful of shots — click to explore

The Neckbreakers — live.

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The Neckbreakers — “The Handle The Blade”

The Neckbreakers — “Gong Gong Bowl”

The Neckbreakers — “Don’t Leave Me Hanging”

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Documentary

Picturehouse — Identity · Shot & directed by Tristan BejawnPlay with sound ›

Contact

Pick a frame.

Circle the one you’re after and tell me a little about it. I’d rather hear the story than the job title.

tristan@bej1.co.uk

Enquiries — choose a frame3 frames

About

Tristan Bejawn is a photographer and director of photography, based in London.

He works in portrait and documentary — for The Guardian, i-D, National Geographic Traveller and the BBC — and on campaigns for Google, Meta, McLaren and British Airways, in stills and in moving image. He is a contributor and masterclass tutor for National Geographic Traveller.

Tristan Bejawn

Photographer & Director of Photography

London

tristan@bej1.co.uk Instagram