Contributors

Adam Cotier

Adam is a DJ with over 13 years experience playing on radio and in the clubs. With the help of the Made In Shoreditch team, he’ll be posting a monthly mix CD for you to download for free as well as bringing you the very best in underground events listings within the Shoreditch area. Adam Cotier

Amanda

Amanda’s just moved to the heart of Shoreditch – but is from Texas; Mexican & Spanish American, she has an impeccable eye for colours and aesthetics. Fresh from graduating from English & Film and Television studies, she wastes her time on youtube and beauty/health blogs, and seriously can’t get enough of gothic horror films, romantic novels and living abroad.

Lindsey Holland

I’m a 25 year old fashion blogger (Ropes Of Holland http://www.ropesofholland.blogspot.co.uk) living in the North & visiting the South as much as possible. I graduate as a Physiotherapist in June, which can’t come quick enough because it is HARD. I love writing, scouring the world for new brands and keeping on top of Fashion Week, especially LDN.

Naoko McCracken  

Naoko has been blogging since 2003. Japanese native, ex-transplant in
the U.S. for 14 years, now (mostly) in Tokyo enjoying the city and
people. Her rondom thoughts and whereabouts can be found at her blog and photoblog.

Oz Page

Theatre director and culturally confused, post graduate from the precipice of North and East London. I love life so much, I think I might be sick..

Lorenzo Bettoni  

Lorenzo is a freelance journalist coming from Italy. East London lover and Brick Lane resident, he has been writing for a number of years in Italy before moving in London to finish his studies and carry on with his career. He is writing reviews about bars, clubs, exhibitions and he is also publishing interviews of people who are making Shoreditch so special.

Olena Garmash 

Olena is a Ukrainian girl working in advertising agency in Kyiv. A daydreamer being in love with London. Attracted by everything bright, vivid, new and live. She believes all her dreams will come truth one day

Anneka Roberts

Burce Kaya

Burce is an English language teacher in London and she likes discovering new places to eat in the city as much as she enjoys reading and writing about them. It’s funny she is a teacher now since she spent her school years hoping she would invent something important and would never have to go to school again – she’s still secretly waiting for that inspiration.

Ruby S. Nichols   

Ruby is an ex-ad exec who recently decided to pursue her penchant for travel, fashion and design by creating the Almanac of Style - an online guide for the well-traveled and well-put-together. The Texas native and her husband can now be found in Venice, CA, savoring life’s adventures one cocktail at a time. (Photo by :Heather Waraksa)

Mark Condon

Sydney wedding photographer Mark Condon of Gold Hat Photography produces creative, emotional and natural images. His recent work includes a street fashion project, featuring eclectic Sydneysiders captured in interesting urban locations.

Zoe Allen

Project Manager at an Art & Design Studio in the heart of Shoreditch. She is a massive foodie, a mini adventurer (last year returned from 14 months travel) and as a newbie to the neighbourhood, is now an avid explorer of all things arty, creative, quirky and cool. No wonder she likes Shoreditch so much….
Goal for 2012 – abseil down the Shard.

Charlotte Lily Prior

After recently completing a degree in journalism, Charlotte soon moved to Shoreditch, where she loves to party. She spends her time in pursuit of the best places to eat and drink in Shoreditch, and also works at the Paddock magazine, based in Hoxton Square. Check out her blog, Blog Standard.

Drew Ellery

Drew is a journalism student who has been based in the East London for a number of years. When Drew is not writing about living and breathing the Shoreditch lifestyle he is certainly experiencing it.

David Somper

Well I have a passion for art, mainly focused in modernist painting. However my other devotion is street photography, primarily candid shooting. Currently i am working on a black and white film photography collection, that deals with cultures and subcultures arising from the west to east.

Rafaela Goes

Inspired by fashion and the latest trends, Rafaela is drawn towards ‘people or situations which convey individuality’. Check out her jaw-dropping photographshere.

Alfredo Negro Martinez

I’ve been living in London for three years and always in Shoreditch. Rivington, Pitfield, Chesire and at the moment I’m living in Hackney Road. I work as a chef de Partie at Tramontana (Old Street square Curtain Road), it’s a recently opened tapas bar. Also I worked in many Shoreditch restaurants : Cargo, Hoxton Square, Electricity Showrooms just to name a few…

Lateefah Jean-Baptiste

Lateefah is a college student with a love for fashion. She would describe herself as caring, determined and confident individual always ready for a new challenge!

Eralp van Kortach

Hi I am Eralp! I take photos, I sing, I listen, I read, I write. 25 Years Old East London Lover. E1 Resident. Amateur Photographer.

LaVale

LaVale is a photographer that dreams about heaven from a hell inspiration.She thinks people are sexy as they are ridiculous. Her style isinspired by pop culture, the black colour and the vintage touch.

Oran Blackwood

Oran is an English Literature and Photographer lecturer, currently exploring the deep recesses of Shoreditch. Also qualified as a freelance journalist, he enjoys the macabre, eccentric and artistic.

Sara Baptista de Sousa

Sara Baptista loves art from the first moment that she looked to the sun. Passionate for Lisbon, she is moved by everything around her. In her childhood she painted, and in the high schools years she started to write, something that until this day endures. As Oscar Wilde said, “I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best”, and that is pretty much her.

Shanthi Marie Blanchard 

Shanthi is not edgy, original, or cool in anyway. She comes from the cow farms of America, and would like to stay away for as long as possible. Shanthi recently completed graduate school in London, where she spent the year writing and meeting new people instead of studying. This journey made her realize she would like to go into public relations, communications, or journalism…in London. If you know anyone in those fields who would hire her (or give her a UK visa), please pass along her CV. You can check out both Shanthi’s CV and her other writing at www.smblanchard.com

Laura Jane Williams

Laura is a Shoreditch-based writer currently found at Superlatively Rude, where she scribes about vagina, a surprising foray into spiritualism, and being brave. Also: food. There is a lot of Fat Bitch talk. Apparently, “anyone with a brain, a heart, or a libido will LOVE this blog.” And it wasn’t even her mum who said that.