Troika Photos is a London based photography agency, founded in 2000 by photographer Michael Walter and picture editor Bridget Coaker. Combining experience in editorial and fine art, our small ambitious agency publishes worldwide.

We have worked on large commissioned projects, including the redevelopment of St Pancras International train station and the Royal Mail stamp launch campaigns, as well as intimate commissions like the wall hanging series for a Pupil Referral Unit in Aylesbury. Editorially we have worked on stories such as the conflict in the Former Yugoslavia and the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

We aim to bring together our skills in editing, curating and image-making to create pictures that work for their very particular purposes, whether that is for a newspaper, a magazine, the web or the wall.

We are always happy to discuss ideas so please do get in touch.

*Troika means three in Serbo-Croat and was short enough to be a distinctive picture credit that might be used when publications were tight on space.

pictures(at)troikaphotos.com
+44 (0)7968 950 703

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    Michael Walter is a London based Photographer with many years’ experience in photojournalism, the corporate sector and the national press. He has photographed internationally, including in the Former Yugoslavia, Sudan, Zambia, Libya, Chad and Iran and was on commission for the Guardian in Iraq during the war in 2003.

    At home he has shot features and portraits for a wide range of clients, newspapers and financial publications and has worked on infrastructure projects such as the redevelopment of St Pancras International. In the early 2000s he was commissioned by the Labour Party to follow Prime Minister Tony Blair on the campaign trail.

    He has also photographed products for a Premier League club and a major retail chain.

    Michael studied Fine Art print-making and photography at Bristol Polytechnic and then at the Slade School of Art and continues to pursue his own fine art work which can be seen here.

  • Bridget Coaker is a picture editor based in London. She was formerly Night Picture Editor at the Guardian and Observer newspapers, the Head of Photos at the Press Association and the London Bureau Chief of Australian Consolidated Press.

    In addition to her editorial experience, Bridget has curated a number of exhibitions including “Residual Traces”, a photographic response to the 2012 Olympics, at Photofusion in Brixton, and in 2009 was Director of the Hereford Photography Festival where she presented photography about the image of the child in “Seen But Not Heard” and curated the retrospective show of photojournalist and filmmaker John Bulmer.

    In 2011 she joined the steering committee of the FORMAT International Photography Festival and participated in the North East Photography Network Symposium on Photography Publishing and the Future of the PhotoBook.

    Bridget has also written for the online art photography magazine 1000 Words; for Photoworks; for The Guardian and is a contributing writer to the book “Exhibiting Photography” published by Focal Press.

    Bridget has been a guest reviewer at international photography festivals including, PhotoEspana, Spain; Daegu Photography Biennale, South Korea; Contact International Photography Festival, Canada; Fotofest, US; Format International Photography Festival, UK and Rencontres D’Arles, France.

    In 2015 Bridget was made a Fellow of the Royal Photography Society.