Simon Emmett

“It’s not every day you photograph an ex-prime minister,” says the contributing photographer who shot Tony Blair in London and Israel for this issue. “I’m half-Israeli, so it was a privilege to be there with him. I’ve lived there when the bombs are going off and planes are overhead. To get an insight into how the politics works was amazing; it’s not something most people get to see.” The full report is on page 152.