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Lucy Sewill is a British portrait and editorial photographer whose work bridges celebrity portraiture, equine imagery, and deeply personal visual storytelling.

Early Life & Health Struggles

Lucy was born prematurely, spending early life in an incubator.

At age 12, she suffered a serious heart infection and a stroke, which caused months of hospitalization and required her to re-learn how to walk.

Over the years she experienced repeated health challenges that remained unexplained until later in life.

Photography Career

Sewill’s artistic voice is rooted in honest, relational portraiture—she aims to reveal something true about her subjects.

She is particularly known for one-on-one informal portraits of public figures (actors, musicians, broadcasters, politicians) as well as deeply felt projects pairing people with animals.

Her images have been exhibited internationally and she has work in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery (UK).She has also published several books, including Horses & Humans.

Another of her interests has been photographing the relationship between people and their pets, such as her Dogs & Their Humans work.

In more recent years, she launched Visible Women, an exhibition and project highlighting representation of women in acting and the entertainment industry.
She also contributes to mentoring, judging, and portfolio reviews for emerging photographers.

Health & Personal Life

After years of medical uncertainty, Lucy eventually self-diagnosed (via noticing parallels between her own symptoms and those of a horse she was riding) that she had Cushing’s disease.

She underwent pituitary surgery but ended up developing Addison’s disease, requiring lifelong hormone treatment.

Lucy lives in rural England with her family, her horses, and other animals.

Horses are a continuing passion and a recurring subject in her work, often serving as a metaphorical or emotional anchor in her visual storytelling.

Key points of the episode:

• How she was photographing famous people and realised only 10 per cent were women and there were only two women out of 30 in British musicians project.
• How, then she is fighting inequality and invisibility,
• The relationship she has with her photographic subjects, and why she gravitates towards famous people.
• How imposter syndrome helped her!
• Her ongoing health struggles and how her GP described her as "The unluckiest person he knew"
• How synchroniscitally, she found out she had Cushings disease...
• ...and how animals healed her.

Want to learn more? www.lucysewill.com

Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lucysewil

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Sophie Ziegler is the founder and creative force behind The OTTO Connection, a real-world social community designed to reconnect single people through relaxed, fun, low-pressure events and friendships. After finding traditional dating scenes uninspiring, Sophie launched OTTO in 2022 to build a welcoming space where being single feels vibrant and where people can expand their lives alongside like-minded friends rather than swiping through apps. Today, OTTO thrives as a growing community that champions genuine connection, shared experiences, and joyful socialising beyond the digital dating treadmill.

• The Otto project, and why it was set up.
• Why being single can be a good thing!
• Later life love. What is it?
• The 80 year olds that fell in love!
• The odd pressure to be part of a couple.
• Why accomodating the baggage is difficult.
• How we can be sideswiped by our hurt young feelings.
• Drawing for freedom. What is it?
• Can we make a decicion to love?
• Self love and self validation.

http://www.theottoconnection.com

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Has this podcast inspired you and would you like to learn more?

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A subject that has caught the imagination of the nation.

Fat Jabs!

A special episode with Sarah Vine and Lucy Cavendish, with role reversal - Sarah interviewing Lucy!

A fascinating, relatable and insightful conversation.

Hello and welcome to the podcast where we talk honestly about weight loss, body image, and everything that comes with it, emotionally, socially, and psychologically.

Two brilliant voices: journalist and author Lucy Cavendish, and columnist and commentator Sarah Vine.

Together, we’ll be exploring the realities behind the headlines, from the rise of weight loss injections to the lifelong mental load of being overweight, and what it really means to change your body in a world that never stops having an opinion.

This is a conversation about more than pounds and calories. It’s about confidence, shame, freedom, identity… and the complicated journey of feeling at home in yourself.

Let’s begin.

Key points of the episode:

• The wrongness of fat shaming, including fat shaming of people on jabs.
• Lucy's theory on when her weight problem started.
• How people are put on the pill for virtually every reason, and it's connection to weight loss.
• How modern fashion does not cater for women with shapes.
• "The only thing you can control"
• How the root of the problem can have started at a really early age.
• The revelation from her Dr that led her to the fat jabs.
• The transformations experienced by both of them.
• An important message from Lucy about this subject.
• Possible reasons from an evolutionary point of view.
• How society has changed, but we haven't.
• How our bodys hormones are very strong drugs.
• How partly it was an identity shift for Lucy.
• Lucy's "Sliding Doors" wonderings, if I had found this earlier, would my life have been better?
• How being overweight can be a kind of "suit of armour"
• How Lucy's world changed when her doctor recommended Mounjaro.
• The Webinar Lucy is doing on this - ATTEND HERE

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Has this podcast inspired you and would you like to learn more?

You can reach out to Lucy, love coach, relationship counsellor, couples counsellor extraordinaire and author of "How to have extraordinary relationships with absolutely everybody".....

On:http://www.lucycavendishlovecoach.com/