Mike Taylor is a British photographer based in East Kent. He was born in 1963 and grew up in South London.
He describes himself as a documentary humanist photographer.
He worked as a newspaper journalist and as a producer in TV news. He spent ten years building and running the digital side of Sky Movies. In 2018 he began to apply what he had learned in that career to photography.
His series on football fans absorbed in big matches in pubs includes the image The Beautiful Game. It won the Street Photography category of the CEWE Photo Award in 2025.
In 2025 he wrote the ebook Click!, about becoming a better photographer. His work is part of Festival La Gacilly-Baden Photo 2026.
