Ruth Samuels is a London-based, British-Jamaican portrait and documentary photographer with a passion for amplifying underrepresented voices, and finding beauty and dignity in the seemingly ordinary. 

Coming from a professional background in international development, her love for visual storytelling grew while connecting with project partners across Latin America, the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe. She sees photography as a device for asking deeper questions about people’s lives, creating the opportunity to help others gain a new perspective through the resulting images.

Presenting the stories of individuals and communities with respect and sensitivity remains Ruth’s central motivation for creating images, whether in her personal or commercial work. She is always excited to learn about the journeys that make a person who they are, and to communicate this through her images, which are characterised by intimacy, warm tones, texture, and the play between light and shadows.