The Photo London Emerging Photographer Award, presented in partnership with Nikon, was established in 2015 to support and advance the careers of emerging photographic artists. The shortlisted works for the 2026 edition are now on display at Photo London.
Passing by Sal Taylor Kydd, 2026
Sal Taylor Kydd's work intertwines photography, poetry, and alternative processes to delve into themes of memory, belonging, and the passage of time. Following the loss of her father and brother within weeks in Spring 2024, she turned to writing and photography to process her grief. Through these images, she sought to reconnect with the world and find joy in its beauty.
Anne Hathaway by Devin Oktar Yalkin (Portraits series)
Devin Oktar Yalkin employs minimal black-and-white elements with intense contrast to create striking portraits. His photographs transform moods, subjects, or scenes into mystical imagery.
Il-Giorniale by Ci Demi, 2021
Ci Demi's series is a story of color, using flash in broad daylight to frame frozen scenes that evoke peaceful nostalgia while acknowledging the unstoppable flow of time. Each photograph attempts to halt the gears of a metropolis of sixteen million people.
Gunshot punctures by Steffi Reimers, 2023
In Guilty Grounds, Steffi Reimers investigates the landscapes of Calabria, southern Italy, revealing them as silent witnesses to the crimes of the 'Ndrangheta. Using specialized lighting, she uncovers subtle marks and traces of human violence that might otherwise go unnoticed.
Escalas Temporales by Sebastian Gonzalez, 2025
Sebastian Gonzalez records rock formations in the Andean highlands, not as monumental objects but as vulnerable bodies cracked by time. He tears, sands, and intervenes in the photographs, performing wear on the image itself, suggesting that permanence is subject to change.
Alfred Smee Pruned His Roses by Edward Rollitt, 2024
Edward Rollitt is a British interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, installation, film, and photography. He explores the psychology of space and the role of objects in shaping identity and memory, building environments that function as portraits through accumulated domestic materials.
Swallows Pride by Devin Oktar Yalkin, 2020
Oktar Yalkin traces surfaces marked by time, including salt air, worn bannisters, and imprints of bodies, constructing a quiet architecture of feeling shaped by touch, duration, and family continuity.
Untitled Cowboy 1 by Baud Postma, 2025
In Death of the Author, Baud Postma uses AI as a conceptual tool, generating images via text-to-image platforms and subjecting them to analogue interventions. The cowboy serves as a metaphor for the AI revolution, representing both freedom and exploitation.
Broken Provenance II: Four gilded rosettes flicker like small suns, Akshay Mahajan
Mahajan's ongoing work examines the dispersal of Indo-Portuguese and Goan devotional objects through auction catalogues and colonial systems. Combining photographed sites in Goa with collaged fragments, the work treats provenance as a broken record of extraction, faith, commerce, and forgetting.
