Welcome to the first of my 'In Focus' articles. They are a chance for me to spend some time chatting with fellow photographers. I'll be finding out a little about what makes them click and sharing that knowledge with you all.

You may not know, but I've been involved with the Facebook group called Vivian Maier Inspired The group looks to encourage people to share their street photography which we hope has been inspired by the work of Vivian. One of my fellow admins for the group is Vanessa Cass. She is an artist and street photographer from Haiti and her work constantly draws my attention. Her style is gritty, raw, real and mostly mono. Each image telling a tale of that time and place.

Vanessa and I have talked many times about street photography, exchanging views, approaches and thoughts on different images we've seen in the group. This time our conversation had this specific article in mind...

Follow the link to read the full interview and to see Vanessa's pictures -