Jan Enkelmann is a documentary, street and travel photographer and graphic designer based in London. He was born in Waiblingen, near Stuttgart, Germany, in 1970. Most of his work is about observing people in public spaces, often in long-term projects.
His book Happiness (Bucher/Prestel, 2007) is a photographic travelogue and won the ITB Book Award in 2008. Serious Conviction (2015) shows the people and the passion of London’s Speakers’ Corner. Pause (2020) shows an empty London during the COVID lockdown and received the German Photobook Award in silver.
In Smoking Chefs he photographed kitchen staff in London’s Chinatown during their cigarette breaks, mostly at night. The Triangle follows Brixton, the neighbourhood where he has lived since he moved to London from Germany, and its people over seven years, as the area changes around them. Both projects have become books.
