Suresh was the youngest son, born in 1962 at Mile End Hospital and brought up in the house in Princelet Street Spitalfields just off Brick Lane. He came of age in the 1970s, embracing Punk; becoming a drummer with the band Spizzenergi and touring with Siouxsie and the Banshees and the Cure. As a student at City & East London College in 1978 he was given a project to record his neighbourhood: he set out with his camera and photographed the local streets. 

In the 1980s he trained as a joiner, working on the restoration of Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Christ Church, Spitalfields and No 2 and 14 Fournier Street, for his close friend Eddie Stride, Rector of Christ Church. This led to studying architecture at University College London The Bartlett School of Architecture and a career as an architect, author and educator. 

Suresh is the author of 'A Modest Living: Memoirs of a Cockney Sikh', published by Spitalfields Life. Find out more at https://thecockneysikh.com and follow him on Instagram @thecockneysikh.