This month’s assignment can be a classic press photographers challenge, or a chance to get to know your family better.

This month’s assignment is a classic challenge every aspiring newspaper photographer has to face. Approaching total strangers and asking if they will have their picture taken.

Work and redundancy are in the news every day at the moment. This month we would like you to photograph people at work

Of course you could make it easier, by photographing a friend or relative. This is fine, because having contacts is also part of a press photographer’s skill set. So it’s a pretty wide brief: a set of pictures of one person or a team of people in their workplace. I would suggest that you focus on one person or group of people to keep a theme to your set of pictures. Perhaps you could include an establishing shot, some portraits, an action shot and a detail or two – make the folio as varied as possible.

Best of luck