[1] Turpin established the first international collective of street photographers,[3][4] In-Public, in 2000[5][6][7][8] and was a member until 2018.
His work has been published in his own book, On The Night Bus (2016) and in various survey publications, as well as being included in a number of group exhibitions.
He publishes through Nick Turpin Publishing, makes short films, and gives workshops on street photography[9][10][11] Phil Coomes, writing for BBC News in 2009, considered Turpin "one of the best" street photographers.
[12] Whilst at university he showed his second year photojournalism stories to the picture editor at The Independent and in 1990, aged 20, quit his course to be a press photographer for the newspaper.
[15] Colin Westerbeck, writing in Time in 2011, said Turpin was "notable for having been instrumental in a collaborative documentary project", namely In-Public.