West London-born photographer Lily Bertrand-Webb, with Dominican and British roots, lost her hearing at 18 months but found her voice through photography. Using the camera to navigate a world without sound, she captures city and countryside life with vibrant colour and serendipity. A graduate of Bournemouth Arts Institute, she interned with Sam Taylor-Johnson before making her mark as a chronicler of British culture. Her portrait of John Keane in the National Portrait Gallery marks a career highlight.

“For a woman to be a flâneuse, first and foremost, she’s got to be a walker – someone who gets to know the city by wandering its streets, investigating its dark corners, peering behind façades, penetrating into secret courtyards. Virginia Woolf called it ‘street haunting’ in an essay by that name: sailing out into a winter evening, surrounded by the ‘champagne brightness of the air and the sociability of the streets’, we leave the things that define us at home, and become ‘part of that vast republican army of anonymous trampers.” an extract by Lauren Elkin from her book Flâneuse: Women Walk the City.