Educator, picture editor and producer working with creative teams, students and agencies to empower ethical, visual storytelling.
Alexia Singh is a Senior Lecturer, BA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at London College of Communication where she is the first year lead. She works on curriculum design and development and delivers talks, workshops and tutorials onsite and online. She is currently acting co-course leader, helping to develop a critically engaged, compassionate pedagogy closely aligned with industry practice.
She started her career working for Reuters News Agency where she managed picture desks in London, Paris and Singapore through major world events from the death of Pope John Paul and the Iraq War to the 2016 migrant crisis. She worked as an editor on assignments around the globe including the Oscars, the Sydney and London Olympics and major international football championships. As one of Reuters’ top editors she produced photo books, curated exhibitions and worked on award-winning interactive stories.
In 2010 she was appointed Editor-in-Charge of Reuters’ Emmy award-winning website ‘The Wider Image’, leading a team of editors, writers and photographers to create interactive storytelling.
She joined Save the Children in 2016 where she directed content gathering for their two-year Search and Rescue operation rescuing immigrants from the Mediterranean Sea. Her role involved producing case stories, design assets, photo essays and films and managing all aspects of film and photo coverage. She went on to produce shoots in Somalia, South Sudan and Bangladesh creating suites of assets for the 2017 Child Hunger Crisis campaign and the Rohingya Refugee Crisis campaign.
While at Save the Children she was commissioned to produce their first ever podcast - an audio drama that she conceived, wrote and directed called ‘Anywhere but Home’.
She has worked with Magnum Photos, WaterAid, and Save the Children, as a picture editor and multimedia producer and is editor of In the Moment: 40 Years of Reuters Photojournalism (Thames & Hudson, 2025).