“I am particularly interested in bringing together young image-makers who are working between the commercial and conceptual by creating worlds entirely their own,” Sargent says about the artists’ selection. “Central to these images is the collaborative complicity of the image-maker and their subjects, but also the seemingly disparate histories of photography, from landscape and vernacular to portraiture and fashion, that are pulled together in the making of each image that is widely circulated in museums and magazines, on social media and the walls of domestic space,” he continues.
From the humorous, playful style of Mous Lamrabat, who mixes Western capitalist symbols such as logos from fast food chains with traditional Arabic codes, to Ruth Ossai’s fashion photography, which tackles deeper themes like identity, the sense of community or friendship, to Rafael Pavarotti, who’s just shot three covers of i-D’s up+rising issue, the exhibition features some of the most relevant up-and-coming photographers right now. A great opportunity to discover the work of the stars of today and tomorrow.