About

Jasper Wilkins is a passionate young entrepreneur with varied experience working on five continents; Asia, Africa, Europe, Central and North America. He became interested in story telling and humanitarian work while in Ethiopia with VSO ICS in 2013 and won awards for his work there with Olympus. While studying at UAL in London he founded In Focus, to educate and inspire people about the natural world through visual communication. He has since had solo exhibitions, given a TEDx talk and created various workshops and projects internationally. 

Experience

Head of Marketing/IT for Heather Mills and VBites Foods
Ambassador for Olympus
​Marketing at Free From Harm 

Team Leader for Raleigh ICS in Nepal, Gorkha
Teacher with VSO ICS in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia
Journalist for Japan Travel (June 2015 - 5 weeks) 
Photojournalist at Cheley Colorado Camp (June 2014 - 9 weeks) 
Social Media at Arete Stories 
Event Photography at Veganuary 

Competitions
Olympus Student Photography Competition Winner, 2014 
Creative Challenge UCA runner up, 2013
Nat Geo, Daily Dozen, Jan 14, 2014
Judge with Jack Harries, Harry Judd for Canon Exhibtr Competition. (2015)
Canon UK, top 10 Jan 14th (2014) 

Publications
UAL Accommodation Guide (2015)
​Amateur Photographer Magazine, AP News. 3rd May (2014) 
Amateur Photographer Magazine, Photo Insight. 10th May (2014)
Amateur Photographer, News. 24th May (2014)
BPI News, May (2014)
Olympus Magazine, December (2014) 
Cheley Colorado Camp Year Book, (2014)
Nat Geo Daily Dozen, Jan 14th (2014)

Exhibitions

London, Battersea 
Dire Dawa, Ethiopia
UCA, Farnham
​UAL, High Holborn
Solihull College

For business enquiries please contact me at [email protected].