Alan Emmins

Alan Emmins is a freelance journalist who was born in England in 1974. After living in New York he relocated to Copenhagen, Denmark. Alan’s texts and images have sold worldwide and cover a wide range of topics, from point of interest features to investigative journalism. His texts have been translated into many languages including Japanese, German, French, Spanish and Danish. Accompanied by his images his stories have appeared in GQ, The New York Post, Stern, Playboy, The New York Daily News, Politiken, Berlingske Tidene and others. Alan is currently working as the managing editor of the fiction magazine and website Spoiled Ink, but still continues to travel and write features for worldwide publication.

Spoiled Ink

Alan Emmin's website

31 Days: A New York Street Diary (October 2006)

Alan Emmins sleeps on the streets of New York for 31 days. When writing a feature about murals painted under the pavements of Manhattan by homeless artists, Alan Emmins was challenged by a homeless dancer to try homelessness himself to understand what he was writing about. He took up the challenge. His diary about the people he met reveals an invisible world, full of surprises. Buy; features & reviews

Homicides, Suicides, Accidental Deaths.  Journalist Alan Emmins pulls on his rubber gloves and meets the people who have built the American dream on the Californian way of death.  Buy; reviews; Mop Men website

Updated 3rd March 2007