London is more than just a city of ten million people—it is also home to an extraordinary diversity of beautiful wildlife. With world population on the rise and countryside disappearing to urban sprawl and commercial agriculture, the sharing of urban space with nature is more important now than ever. To strike the right balance, we have to preserve and increase the green and blue spaces in our cities and see and love the wildlife that we already have.

One of the greenest capital cities in the world, in 2019 London was declared the world’s first National Park City. In Wild Neighbours, documentary and wildlife photographer Sarah Cheesbrough sets out to observe and create photographic portraits of the creatures of her home city of London. Compiled over the course of hundreds of hours, Cheesbrough presents eighty species in intimate and captivating portraits that span all four seasons. In capturing the wildlife of her city, she gives us insight into London’s natural world and inspires its conservation through love.