York mum’s portrait of daughter wins award

After encouragement from a fellow photographer, Ms Mehta entered the photo into the competition, not expecting a response.

“I got this email one evening and I was jumping around my living room,” she said.

“It was crazy that I’d been shortlisted and then when I got the follow up email, that I was one of the winners.”

Coming home from Leeds one evening, Ms Mehta’s husband saw Nina’s picture on a screen at the station.

“He had a moment of thinking ‘that’s unbelievable’ and was welling up and sent me a picture,” Ms Mehta added.

“That weekend, we all went and stood in Leeds station on a cold Sunday morning and we got to see it.

“Nina and I were jumping up and down because it was really exciting.

“It’s been on huge billboards, I couldn’t believe the size of the billboards that it’s been on.”

The York photographer’s ambition is to carry on capturing her family’s identity and branch out to picturing other families with dual heritage.

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