The two instantly connected over having a Southeast Asian ethnic background but growing up in Europe. Lam would invite Pham to his family home in Northampton where his father would cook for them.

“We bonded through food, eating and our common ground of how we were brought up,” says Lam, who was born in the UK to Hong Kong Chinese parents. “It was a very familial connection and a sense of community.”

After graduation, both Pham and Lam worked as fashion photographers, just as they had…