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Exhibitors: International Photography Exhibition 166

The International Photography Exhibition (IPE) is the world’s longest-running photography exhibition. We encourage everyone to participate in the annual open-call, including new, emerging, and established photographers worldwide. Now in its 166th edition, the IPE 166 is a powerful exhibition selected by quest panel members Yuxing Chen, Kalpesh Lathigra, Anne Nwakalor, Dr Michael Pritchard and Nicola Shipley.

Meet the photographers exhibiting in our new edition launching in August 2025

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Mark Aitken

Mark Aitken is an artist and independent scholar. The core theme of Aitken’s work is how destabilising traumatic memories manifest in our lives. Aitken's practice utilises empathetic listening and silence to engage with the world through a framework of documentary encounters. Aitken challenges and extends temporal and epistemological boundaries through memory being defined by emotional truths and ineffable experiences. The resulting mixed-media documentary art works include film, photography, written and spoken word, sound, music, performance, animation, painting and installation.

@markaitkenphoto

Thedeepriver

Jocelyn Allen

Jocelyn Allen (b. 1988) is an artist who mainly works with photography, writing, and performance.

She completed her first self-portraiture project in 2010 and has been primarily using herself within her personal work since then.

Allen’s practice is very therapeutic for her. It helps her to process her thoughts and feelings, while also documenting her life.

@jocelynfreya

Jocelyn Allen

CREDIT: Jason Ryan
Debe Arlook

Debe Arlook (b.1962) is an internationally recognised photographic artist based in Los Angeles, California. Inspired by her dedication to personal growth and spiritual practices, Arlook’s projects are an expression of the porous boundaries between human and mystical experiences. She blends multiple photographic styles using landscape, conceptual, and documentary photography to communicate these contemplations.

@debearlook

debearlookphotography

Murray Ballard

Murray Ballard (b.1983) is a photographer based in Brighton, UK. His work explores a variety of subjects across several interrelated areas: the environment, social issues, science and technology.

He is best known for his long-term project - The Prospect of Immortality - an investigation of cryonics - the practice of freezing the dead in the hope that future science and technology will be able to bring them back to life. In 2024 he completed his Masters in Photography at the University of the West of England.

@murrayballard

Murray Ballard

Timon Benson

Timon Benson would like to communicate through photography. In many ways his work is still information, still testing and navigating. Several interests are prominent, which can be categorised as relationships. For example, relationships between people, between places/spaces and between feelings. He longs for what he calls sustained immediacy, which he understands to be eternal issues, relevant for human consideration. How to be a son, a friend, a meaningful, sensitive human, in the world, but also to be valuable to himself. What he puts into the camera, and what comes out on the paper goes through an internal emotional process which he hopes has resonance for all of us.

@timonbenson

timonbenson.com

CREDIT: Brad Maniscalco
John Boaz

John Boaz is an award-winning photographer based in Britain. John’s approach to creating photographs is one of poetic sensitivity, playing with light and tone to emphasise feeling, emotion and atmosphere within his photographs. John is drawn to topics that represent a sense of place, time, love and faith. Looking for the complex beauty within life and humanity.

@johnboaz_

John Boaz

Sean Cham

Sean Cham (b.1994) is an artist and researcher based between London and Singapore. He works at the intersections of photography, performance, and installation. His interdisciplinary and critical practice engages in questions of histories, memories, and the consumption and production of both. In particular, his works consider ideas around authorship, contestation, archival gaps, colonial legacies, and migration.

@seancham

seancham

 

Raeann Kit-Yee Cheung

Raeann Kit-Yee Cheung is a contemporary artist who explores immigration experiences that are generally unknown or hidden. She leans on a dual heritage and embraces a rich cultural ambiguity to confront a melded identity and to resolve inner complexities. Raeann holds a Master of Arts in contemporary photography from Falmouth University. Her work has been shown in Canada and internationally.

raeannkityee.ca

raeannkityee

Alex Currie

I am a photographer living on the Isle of Barra in the Western Isles. I have exhibited widely across the UK and Europe and have been published on numerous occasions. I am interested in the built environment and how that impacts upon wider society and have been photographing the Outer Hebrides for thirteen years and living there for the past three years.

@alexcurriephotography

Alexcurrie

Thomas Dryden-Kelsey

Thomas Dryden-Kelsey works on long term projects about family dynamics, fragility and strength. His work is influenced by past experiences, encounters and questioning the physical and cultural landscape of the British Isles. His work has been selected for Portrait of Britain, Magenta Foundation and Kuala Lumpur Portrait awards.

@thomasdrydenkelsey

Dryden-Kelsey

Megan K. Eagles

Megan K Eagles creates people focused stories with a documentary slant. Shooting on film using natural light, Eagles capture tender moments that are real and intimate. Bringing out warmth and truth, focusing on human connection. Curious by nature, Eagles is fascinated by people’s worlds and the opportunity of a window into them.

@megankeagles 

mkeagles

Andy Fell

Andy Fell is a UK-based photographer and informal educator passionate about using photography to connect with people and communities. With a youth and community work background, he focuses on relationships, identity, equality, and collaboration. He believes in participatory photography’s power to bring people together, spark meaningful conversations, and raise awareness of critical social issues.

Andyfell

Andyfell

Stefano Ferrarin

Stefano Ferrarin is an Italian photographer based in England. Ferrarin is obsessed with national identity and heritage. Fascinated by how something as universal as food can hold deep cultural meaning.

Ferrarin also love working with moving image as it allows him to explore different ways to tell a story.

stefanoferrarin

 

Austn Fischer

Fischer is a multidisciplinary artist who explores the nuances of identity, satire, and performance. His ongoing work delves into folklore and the stories that shape our lives, seeking to understand the performance of identity and the human condition.

Authenticity and honesty are at the heart of Fischer's practice, inviting viewers to confront their assumptions and embrace the full range of human experience. Fischer's work challenges traditional notions and speaks to the complexities of our modern world.

@austnfischer 

Austnfischer

Margarita Galandina

Margarita Galandina is a multidisciplinary artist from Siberia, currently based in London. She studied ballet and academic drawing in her early years before moving to the UK, where she received a BA in Fashion Communication from Central Saint Martins and an MA in Photography from the London College of Communication. Her work is deeply influenced by Indigenous Siberian heritage, particularly Buryat-Mongolian, and delves into themes of memory, indigenisation, migration, and cultural identity in postcolonial spaces

@mgalandina

margaritagalandina

Lydia Goldblatt

Lydia Goldblatt is a British photographic artist. Her work has been widely exhibited, including the National Portrait Gallery, Somerset House London, the National Museum Gdansk and the GoEun Museum of Photography. Her first book, Still Here, is held in the collection of the V&A Museum National Art Library. Her second book, Fugue, has been published by GOST Books in 2024.

@lydiagoldblatt

lydiagoldblatt

Francisco Gonzalez Camacho

Francisco Gonzalez Camacho is a Spanish visual artist based in Finland. Gonzalez Camacho's work presents a process-based approach interweaving photography and graphic printing methods. His practice is a result of intuitive exploration centred around themes such as materiality, immigration and the connectedness between landscape and self.

@frangccom 

Frangc

 

Mat Hay

Mat Hay is an award-winning documentary and commercial photographer and filmmaker from Edinburgh, working throughout the U.K. and internationally. His projects celebrate rural cultures, communities, and industries, while documenting how humans interact with and alter landscapes and the environment.

@mathayphoto

Mat-Hay

Ronya Hirsma

Ronya Hirsma is an artist based in Helsinki, Finland. Hirsma holds an MFA in Photography from HDK–Valand in Gothenburg. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Photo Saint-Germain, Paris (2022), Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg (2024), NEVVEN, Gothenburg (2024), Studio Tabac, Stockholm (2024), and B-galleria, Turku (2024). Her artist book is included in the collection of Hasselblad Center.

@ronyahirsma

ronyahirsma

CREDIT: Aaron Munson
Peter Holliday

Peter Holliday is a Scottish photographer whose practice explores eco-phenomenological themes relating to the northern environment, remote communities and place-based narratives. He is interested in the idea of Nature as a phenomenon of visibility that exists in relation to history and culture. In 2022, Peter earned his MA in Photography from Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture.

@peter_holliday

peterhollidayphoto

Lawrence W. Ivy

Lawrence Ivy began photographing in Texas, USA with events as diverse as the Huntsville Convict Rodeo or a Willie Nelson July 4 picnic noting the transformations in culture, media, and technology in public space.

More than observing with a camera Lawrence’s documents envision humanity with empathy and a graphic representation with his subjects.

@leicaworkivy

Ayesha Jones

Ayesha is a socially engaged artist that works with photography and film and is interested in art as a catalyst for growth, healing and social impact.

Ayesha's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and she has won awards, including; Magnum Photos and The Photography Show’s 30 under 30 award and British Journal of Photography’s portrait of Britain and Decade of Change awards

@ayesha_jones

ayeshajones

Keerthana Kunnath

Keerthana Kunnath is a visual artist based between London and India. Engaging with the visual
rhetoric of post-colonial Indian mainstream media, she deconstructs and reimagines narratives,
thereby challenging the entrenched societal norms. Kunnath’s work is deeply rooted in personal
and collective memories, exploring the intersections of intimacy, queerness, and community. Her
work is an investigation into the socio-cultural fabric, offering a lens into the intimate and the
universal, the personal and the political.

kee_kunnath

Keerthana Kunnath

Jacopo Locarno

Jacopo Locarno, born on June 2, 1998, in Gallarate, developed an interest in photography during high school. Since 2021, he has been studying at the European Institute of Design (IED) in Milan. His work explores human experience, focusing on youth social dynamics and environmental impact. He exhibited at Kemonia Studio (Milan, 2024).

Jacopo.Locarno

Deacon Lui

Deacon Lui is an artist who explores identity, social justice, and displacement through photography. He was born in Hong Kong, where he graduated from BA (Hons) Sociology at Hong Kong Baptist University. Following that, he graduated from MA Documentary Photography and Photojournalism at the London College of Communication.

@lsb.co

deaconlui.com

Mehdi Moghimnejad

Mehdi Moghimnejad is an Iranian contemporary photographer, researcher and faculty member of Iran University of Art (IUA).

Moghimnejad’s world of photography, with a hyper-realistic and very personal photomontage method, which he named "Verisimilitudes", can be described as a creative conversation with the history and culture of Iran and the broader Middle East.

@mehdimoghimnejad

moghimnejad

Aidan Murgatroyd

Aidan's work is inspired by the role that memory, absence, trace and nostalgia play in forming narratives through which we understand ourselves and the world. He completed his Honours Degree in Visual Communication in 2021. His series Becoming South African was selected as a finalist for the Sony World Photography student awards in 2022.

Instagram: @ad.ports

Website: aidanmurgatroyd

Albert Ng

Albert Ng, an artist from Hong Kong, delves into themes of memory, intimacy, and social structure, utilizing both found photos and his own archive. His approach involves tearing, cutting, and bending photos to construct a visual narrative in collage form, evoking a sense of brokenness and erasure. Ng’s work is characterized by its fragmentation, layered forms, and materiality.

nyt_albert

albertng

Ville Niiranen

Ville Niiranen is a portrait and documentary photographer based in London and Zürich.
Ville holds an MA in Commercial Photography from London College of Communication (2023) and is a recent winner of Portrait of Britain (2023).

@ville_niiranen

villeniiranenphoto

Ryan O’Toole Collett

Ryan O'Toole Collett is a social documentary photographer based in London who works internationally. His photography is characterised by its authenticity in
capturing the intimate. Through collaborative portraiture, conversation and documenting the lived experience and places of the people he meets, his work offers a glimpse into the lives of people navigating contemporary society.

@ryanotoolecollett

ryanotoolecollett.studio

CREDIT: Theo Gould
Ana Paganini

Ana Paganini (1995)
Ana studied at the London College of Communication.
Ana’s documentary projects focus on the themes of personal and collective memory, identity, and cultural traditions, often relating to her native Portugal.
In 2023 she was shortlisted for the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Award. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in the UK, Germany, and Portugal.

@anapaganini_

anapaganini

Andy Pilsbury

Andy Pilsbury is a photographic artist living in Gloucestershire. His immersive and collaborative approach to storytelling, aims to reveal the complexities and nuances of life in the UK. He completed an MA in Visual Communication at Birmingham City University where he currently works part time as a Photography Technician. For the remainder of time, Andy pursues personal projects and commission based work. 

@andypilsbury

andypilsbury

Tine Poppe

Tine Poppe is an artist photographer living and working in Oslo, Norway. Her practice focuses on bringing attention to social, political, existential and environmental issues through art or documentary photography. In doing so, her work has been published and exhibited in prominent publications, photography magazines and exhibitions around world. Her works have been purchased by both governmental and corporate art collections in Norway and abroad. Poppe's work has been internationally awarded a number of times.

@tinepoppe

tinepoppe

Emilie Røndal Nielsen

Emilie Røndal Nielsen (b. 1998) is a photographer and visual artist based in Copenhagen. Through her lens she explores things that seem slightly off and absurd motives hiding in plain sight. As a digital native she is driven by a longing for slower and more tangible media and her practice involves analog and digital experimentation in photos, books and zines.

@emilieroendal

emileroendal

Matthew Renew

Matthew uses the natural world to grip the viewer with wonder and curiosity. His formative years in Afghanistan, Kenya, India and Thailand, saturated his mind with the tropical animals and vegetation that now emerge from his images. Matthew studied design at Brunel University and spent two and a half years working for and being mentored by world-renowned photographer Tim Flach.

@matthewrenew

matthewrenew

Hyunmin Ryu

Hyunmin Ryu is an award-winning artist based in Daegu, South Korea. Hyunmin Ryu expresses the concept of failure and imperfections arising from life in a minimal expression. His understated expressions take a strategy that maximizes the effect through small interventions or ready-made applications. His work is done through a variety of media including photographs, videos, and installations. In particular, in his installation works, the use of ready-made objects creates a different context by simply placing them in the exhibition space. 

His recent photography work is focused on the limitations and imperfections of depicting a person in a photograph.

@hyunminr

hyuniminryu

CREDIT: Magda Kuca
Aindreas Scholz

Aindreas Scholz is a London-based photographer and lecturer. His practice explores sustainable, cameraless photographic techniques addressing environmental vulnerability and the impacts of climate change. Through fieldwork and eco-conscious materials, Scholz creates collaborative works that engage audiences in dialogues about sustainability, ecology, and the fragility of our planet’s future.

@aindreasscholz

aindreasscholz

CREDIT: Charlotte Hansel
Kate Schultze

Kate Schultze is a social documentary and portrait photographer based between Berlin, Germany and Leeds, UK. Her work focuses on the everydayness of being European. Coming from an east German family herself, Schultze’s interest is drawn to topics in areas in Europe that have experienced social and economic depression as well as an alienation of the former working class.

@_katesch

kateschultze

Nirvana Seepersaud

Nirvana Seepersaud is a Canadian-born artist and storyteller who moved to the UK in 2023. Growing up in Toronto as the daughter of a single Indo-Caribbean mother, her biracial identity profoundly influences her work.

Her work often tells cinematic stories that explore themes of race, identity, and belonging, using her perspectives and exploration to spark thought and conversation. Now based in London, she continues to explore these narratives while sharing her home with her two beloved cats.

@nirvanaseepersaud

nirvanaseepersaud

Aria Shahrokhshahi

Aria Shahrokhshahi, is a British-Iranian multi disciplinary artist, whose artistic vision has been shaped by a deep fascination with the intricate dynamics of diverse communities and the complexities of the human condition.

@ariamark

ariamark

Xu Shengzhe

Xu Shengzhe, born in 1997 in Liaoning, China, is a freelance photographer currently based in Beijing. His work focuses on China’s Northeast region, where he employs a mobile, itinerant approach to document the area through photography.

Gökhan Tanrıöver

Gökhan Tanrıöver is a Turkish-British photographic artist based in Madrid. He meticulously constructs photographs that focus on personal and collective identity informed by personal history, familial narratives and memory, layering together subjective truths and lived experiences. He holds an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art and received a Lens Culture Critics’ Choice Award in 2023.

@gokhantanriover

gokhantanriover

Valentin Valette

Driven by both my photographic practice and my studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, I am interested in the use of visual arts as a research instrument. My interest in the Arab and Muslim Worlds, led me to divide my time between photographic commissions, long-term personal projects, and academic involvement, between North Africa and Gulf Countries.

valentin.valette

valentinvalette

Inês Ventura

Inês Ventura works on social, anthropological and psychological issues through photography and film. She is interested in understanding how these mediums - never isolated from the social, economic and cultural context in which the work is made - can be a tool for understanding social relationships, and whether it can have a place of voice in political issues.

@venturamines

inesventura

Katie Waite

Katie Waite is a Welsh fine art and portraiture photographer based in Cardiff. Waite’s practice combines constructed documentary and self-portraiture to examine ideas of transformation, femininity, and maternal strength. Using personal archives and collected ephemera is always a strong factor within her work.

@katieangelawaite

katiewaite

Hanna Wolf

Hanna Wolf is a British-Canadian photographer living and working on a small family farm in Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia). Inspired by the connections between parents and children, her work investigates themes of memory, familial archives, and the relationship between identity, belonging, and acts of care. She was recently named a winner of the 2024 LensCulture Critics’ Choice Awards.

@hannawolfphoto

hannawolf

Alastair Philip Wiper

British photographer Alastair Philip Wiper has received international recognition for his industrial, scientific and architectural work. Alastair looks to the machines, technology and infrastructure surrounding us to explore the needs and desires of humans, their dreams and their questions about the universe.

@alastairwiper

wiper.studio

Naoto Yoshida

Naoto Yoshida is a Japanese writer and photographer. Since 2017, he has been working with text and photography on social issues related to disability and para-sports, questioning what constitutes disability in society. He completed an MFA in Photography at the University for the Creative Arts in 2024. His work was selected as a winner of Portrait of Britain in 2023.

@_naoto_yoshida

naotoyoshida

Fengyang Zeng

Fengyang Zeng, a photographic artist and graduate of the Royal College of Art. Fengyang spent five years documenting the lives of 100 middle-class families in China, exploring themes of time, memory, relationships, and death. Fengyang work is influenced by contemporary conceptual art, combines photography, installations, and moving images to provoke reflection on contemporary life and societal emotions.

fengyangzeng

Youngfyou and youngzeng

ChengLong Zhang

Chenglong Zhang is a filmmaker and Photographic artist graduated from Communication University of China majoring in photography and videography and is now engaged in the creation of feature films and documentaries.

His photographic activities start from the exploration of the relationship between urban public space and individuals, and explore and imagine people's survival and spiritual conditions in the movement between documentary and fictional.

@chenglo_zhang

Danilo Zocatelli Cesco

Danilo Zocatelli Cesco, is an Italo-Brazilian artist based in London. Inspired by personal stories, queer identity, and social issues, his work explores themes of love, loss, and transformation. Through photography, sculpture, and video, he challenges traditional perspectives and invites viewers to see the world anew.

@danilozc

danilozcesco