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Exhibitors: International Photography Exhibition 167

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 167th edition, the IPE 167 is a powerful exhibition selected by quest panel members Jaskirt Dhaliwal-Boora, Lydia Goldblatt, Max Gorbatskyi, Dr Michael Pritchard and Irene Lombardo.

Meet the photographers exhibiting in our new edition launching in August 2026

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Jocelyn Allen

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

She completed her first self-portraiture project in 2010 and has been primarily appearing 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

Charlotte Audoynaud

A graduate of the Lyon School of Fine Arts in 2016, Charlotte Audoynaud develops an artistic practice situated between autobiography and fiction, in a poetic and sensitive register. Her work explores the notion of intimate territory. Tracing the contours of a dreamlike family narrative, she composes an intergenerational documentary fiction where memories surface and childhood overflows. 

@charlotteaudoynaud 

charlotteaudoynaud.com 

Carolina Baldomá

Carolina Baldomá is an Argentine visual artist based in the Pampas whose practice is developed in collaboration with nature. Her work has been exhibited at the Griffin Museum of Photography (USA), PhotoPlace Gallery (USA), and the Argentine Embassy, London (UK). She is currently pursuing an MA in Contemporary Art Curatorship and has received recognition from the National Visual Arts Salon (Argentina), LensCulture (USA), and the Fresh Photo Award (USA). 

@carobaldoma 

carolinabaldoma.com 

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

Toby Binder

Toby is a documentary photographer with experience in zones of war and crisis, mainly focusing on long-term projects. The fact that he often takes the perspective of children and young people is based on the firm conviction that we should actually be leaving a better world to the next generation - and are obviously in danger of failing to do so. 

@tobybinderphotography 

toby-binder.de 

CREDIT: Andrew Rafferty
Alicia Bruce

Alicia Bruce is an award-winning, working-class artist, activist and educator based in Edinburgh. Her work sits between documentary and staged imagery, exploring environmental issues, human rights, feminism and heritage. Her monograph I Burn But I Am Not Consumed (Daylight Books, 2023) received international acclaim. Her work is held in collections including the National Galleries of Scotland and MoCP (Chicago).

@aliciabrucephoto 

aliciabruce.co.uk/ 

Siân Cann

Siân Cann is a visually impaired photographer whose work explores alternative ways of seeing through sensory instant cameras and tactile cameraless processes. Drawing on a background in environmental education and years spent as a warden on Lundy before her sight loss, she creates immersive images that offer intimate and evocative encounters with the natural world. 

@siancann 

siancann.com 

Kate Carpenter

Kate is a photographer, writer, and speaker whose work tells stories about family, memory and forgetting, blending poetic imagery with observational, portrait and archival photographs.  Her work is sparked by her experience of caring for relatives through the years of their dementia and inspired by a childhood in her parents’ darkroom. 

@kvcarpenter 

katecarpenter.com

CREDIT: Michal Iwanowski
Aletheia Casey

Aletheia Casey is an Australian photographic artist based in London whose work focuses on environmental issues, post-colonial legacy, family, and cultural identity. Winner of the 2024 World Press Award (Open category, Southeast Asia and Oceania), she was nominated for the Prix Pictet award, shortlisted for the Sony World Photography Awards. Aletheia has exhibited internationally and leads the online MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography course at London College of Communication, UAL. 

@aletheiacasey 

aletheiacasey.com 

Sadie Catt

Sadie Catt is a British photographer and educator based between Brighton and Bristol. 

@sadiecatt 

sadiecatt.com 

CREDIT: Tse Yu
Léa Chen

Léa Chen is a Taiwanese artist who is currently based in London. Focusing on the female perspective, her work explores themes of self-identity, memory, and trauma through personal experience. 

Often seeking inspiration in nature, Chen’s work further investigates the intimate bond between humans and the land, while challenging social and cultural issues that are often left unspoken in society. 

@takenbyleachen 

leachenart.com 

Jeremy Chih-Hao Chuang

Jeremy Chih-Hao Chuang is a Taiwanese artist based in London. Chuang focuses extensively on the interrelationship between home and self-identity from an autobiographical perspective, which he derived into a subjective language that uses photography to engage in visual contemplation. With his studies and art, he predominately concentrates on the integration of interdisciplinary media, sculpture and installations, specific bodies and spaces with photography. 

@jeremyhao.chuang 

jeremyhao.com/ 

Robert Coxwell

Robert Coxwell is a photographer from Cape Town based in London. His areas of practice continue to evolve and have included fashion and portraiture which is a consequence of his main interest, that of people, their identities and their stories. Prior to using photography as a tool to document the human condition he was a journalist and creative director at the BBC. His work has featured in numerous publications and exhibitions including as a National Portrait Prize (Taylor Wessing) finalist. 

@robertcoxwellphoto 

robertcoxwell.com/

Felicity Crawshaw

Felicity Crawshaw creates compelling portraits, and immersive landscapes from the UK and worldwide. She instinctively captures the ephemeral nature of the landscape and the stories of the people who inhabit it. Her practice often centres around people’s relationship with the environment, and the essential bonds that link them to the land. 

@felicitycrawshaw 

felicitycrawshaw.com 

Tom Dryden-Kelsey

Tom is a British documentary photographer based in the UK. He 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. 

@thomasdrydenkelsey 

dryden-kelsey.com

Tori Ferenc

Tori Ferenc (b. 1989, Poland) is a portrait and documentary photographer whose work explores themes of identity and community. Her images often capture relationships that shape our sense of belonging, offering a nuanced look at the lives of her subjects. She creates work that bridges personal storytelling with broader social narratives, combining empathy and visual clarity to highlight underrepresented perspectives. 

@toriferenc 

toriferenc.com 

Attilio Fiumarella

Attilio Fiumarella is an Italian visual artist and photographer based in Porto, Portugal. Trained as an architect, his work explores the relationship between people, memory and the built environment, with particular attention to civic spaces, displacement and forms of collective life. His practice moves between long-term personal projects, commissions and site-responsive work. 

@attiliofiumarella 

attiliofiumarella.com 

Itamar Freed

New York-born Itamar Freed is an artist and photographer. He received an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art, London, supported by the Clore Duffield Bezalel Scholarship. His work has been shown at the Museum of London, Royal Academy, BEERS London, Photo London, Offprint TATE, Volta New York and Pulse Miami, and is held in major public and private collections worldwide. 

@itamar_freed 

itamarfreed.net/ 

Kat Green

Kat Green is an award-winning British portrait and documentary photographer whose work explores identity, change, and the ways people find belonging. Whether working independently or in partnership with communities and creatives, she creates thoughtful images that reveal the quiet nuances of lived experience. Her practice spans long-term documentary work and intimate portraits, with exhibitions across the UK and Europe. 

@katgreen___ 

www.katgreen.net 

CREDIT: Oscar McQuillan-Byrne
David Hadland

David Hadland is a documentary and portrait photographer from Dunstable, UK. He spent 11 years living in London, earning a BA in Photography from Kingston University in 2018 and an MA in Documentary Photography and Photojournalism from the London College of Communication in 2024. David’s photography explores themes of identity, memory, and the human experience. He is currently based in Kyiv, Ukraine, working on his long-term project. 

@davidxhadland/ 

davidhadland.co.uk/ 

Abbey Hepner

Abbey Hepner is an artist based in Illinois, USA. Her artistic practice examines health, technology, and our relationship with place through photography. She works at the intersection of art and science, investigating biopolitics and the use of health as a currency. Using nineteenth-century photographic processes, she reflects on how histories persist, recur, and resurface, embedding the past materially within the present. 

@abbeyhepner/ 

abbey-hepner.com/ 

Alex Huda

Alex Huda is a Canadian-born, South Asian photographer whose portraitures operate at the intersection of mythology, identity, and belonging. During his 2025 Director’s Fellowship at ICP in New York, he developed his long-term project, Love Like a Monster that won the 2026 Webby Award, was awarded the Jury Top 5 at the 2025 International Photography Awards, and was a Finalist for the Goethe-Institut’s Art Prize. 

@alexhudashoots/ 

alexhuda.com/ 

Kota Ishida

Kota Ishida is a contemporary artist from Tokyo, based in London. Working with photographic imagery, he employs apparatuses to reconfigure images, investigating interpersonal relationships, social systems, and how images are produced and mediated. Ishida completed his MFA in Photography at the University for the Creative Arts in 2024. He is teaching and researching at the University of the Arts London. 

@_kota_ishida 

kotaishida.myportfolio.com/ 

Payal Kakkar 

Payal Kakkar (b.1975) is a Delhi/Goa-based, self-taught artist practicing environmental activism through photography. Moving from heritage photography, after the 2018 Kerala floods, she exposes the impact of extraction on landscapes and marginalized communities. Recognized by the Royal Photographic Society and Earth Photo (2025, 2026), her film 'Requiem of a Mangrove Forest' won Best Asian Independent Environmental Film at AAIFF 2025. 

@payaldewankakkar/ 

payalkakkar.in/ 

Dan Kitwood

Dan Kitwood London-based staff photographer with Getty Images where he has worked for the last 19 years. Dan has reported on stories in over 50 countries across the world covering a wide range of assignments spanning politics, faith, conflict, conservation and displacement, amongst others, all grounded in a commitment to veracity and humanity. 

@dan_kitwood/ 

dankitwood.com 

Jeremy Knowles

Jeremy Knowles is a multidisciplinary British artist, cultural worker, and photographer whose practice spans community actions, sound installations, photography series, and investigative writing. Based in Berlin since 2016, his work is informed by the rise of nationalism in Europe, exploring belonging, non-citizenship, and outsiderhood. Knowles holds a B.A. in Photography from Camberwell College of Arts, London. 

@jeremyphilipknowles/ 

jeremyknowles.co.uk 

Julia Lê

Julia Lê is a French self-taught photographer whose practice combines photography, sound, archives and collaborative forms of storytelling, through long-term, research-based approaches. Coming from Vietnamese families exiled in France and the United States, her work focuses on postcolonial diasporic experiences, exploring memory, home, and representation as collective spaces of resistance and self-determination. 

@couinemai 

maijuliale.com 

Adam Lin

Adam Lin is a Taiwan-born, London-based photographer and visual artist. His genre-blurring practice blends documentary realism with staged narratives to explore intimacy, masculinity, queerness, family, and cross-cultural identities. Recently named a Dazed 100 rising cultural force and awarded the Photovogue Outstanding Vision Grant, his work has been exhibited internationally and featured by the V&A and AnOther Magazine. 

@adamlinhc 

 

Shizza Majeed

Shizza Majeed (b. 2001) is a British-Pakistani artist based in London. Her practice is currently rooted in themes of migration, culture and identity, often working across documentary and portraiture photography. She holds a BA in Photography from Kingston University and was recently awarded the Madiha Aijaz Prize at the Royal Over-Seas League Photography Awards in 2025. 

@shizzamajeed/ 

shizzamajeed.com 

Safa Basharat Malik

Safa Basharat Malik is a Birmingham-based British-Pakistani photographer working across portraiture, fashion and documentary storytelling. Her work explores identity, representation and cultural memory, often centering women of colour and communities shaped by social visibility. She has beem recognised by Portrait of Britain twice as a shortlist and winner in 2025 and 2026 and the Association of Photographers (AOP) Emerging Talent Silver winner in 2025. 

@safabmalik/ 

safabmalik.com 

CREDIT: Gina Bolle
Thomas Mandl

Thomas Mandl is a photographer based in Munich Germany. He studied geography and politics and has been using his photography for social and political projects. One of his projects with world wide recognition is the "One World Flag", his design of a Flag for the World. His recent photography work focuses on the lucid German term of „Heimat“ standing for home, exploring his home countries past as well as his personal sense of belonging in Europe and emotions.gina 

@thomas_mandl/ 

mandlmandl.eu 

Byron Mohammad Hamzah

Byron is a Malaysian photographer based in Malaysia. He has an MA in photojournalism and documentary photography from UAL. He has exhibited in the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize twice and won 3rd place in 2025. He was a finalist in Kranj Foto Fest and Paris Photo Carte Blanche Award, Portrait of Britain winner and a FOAM talent runner-up. 

@byronhamzah/ 

byronhamzah.com 

Zed Nelson

Zed Nelson is a photographer known for long-term projects that explore contemporary society. He has published four monograph photography books and received numerous photography awards. Nelson’s work has been exhibited internationally in solo shows, at group exhibitions at Tate Britain and the National Portrait Gallery, and included in the permanent collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. 

@zed_nelson/ 

zednelson.com 

CREDIT: Zoltan Gerliczki
Michael James O'Brien

Michael James O’Brien is a photographer, writer, curator, and educator whose work includes portraiture, fashion, performance, landscape, and contemporary photographic practice. For several decades, his photographs and poems have explored community, queer visibility, ritual, theatricality and material intelligence. 

@michael74obrien/ 

michaeljamesobrien.com 

Marcy Palmer

Marcy Palmer is an American artist whose work explores themes of beauty, history, and social justice through the lens of nature and science. Marcy has an M.F.A. in Photography & Related Media from the School of Visual Arts and a B.S. in Studio Art from Skidmore College.  Her work has been shown in various spaces in the US and internationally. 

@marcy_palmer/ 

marcypalmer.com 

Laura Pannack

Laura Pannack (b.1985, London) is a visual artist working with analogue photography, print, collage, and experimental techniques. Her practice is rooted in long-form social enquiry and embraces unpredictability as a generative force within the image-making process. Research-led and self-initiated, her practice invites viewers into images that hold intimacy, vulnerability, and recognition — spaces where personal stories quietly mirror our own. 

@laurapannack 

laurapannack.com 

CREDIT: Chris Kane
Jennifer Pattison

Jennifer Pattison’s portraits are arresting and full of unselfconscious expression. Her practice, rooted in portraiture, engages with female experience through themes of identity, the body and motherhood. Based in East Sussex, she works with medium-format analogue film. Her work has been exhibited internationally, alongside commissions supported by Arts Council England and the British Council 

@jennifer_pattison 

jennifer-pattison.com 

CREDIT: John Boaz
Kate Peters

Kate Peters is a London based photographer and educator. Rooted in a respect for craft, and working across genres, Kate’s work focuses on identity, performance and the representation of women. Her career spans commissions for the Guardian Saturday, a TIME magazine cover, and a National Portrait Gallery artist commission. Kate creates images that explore belonging and connection, she is currently studying for an MA in Psychosocial Studies, researching systems of power and societal expectations in relation to gender. 

@misskatiepeters/ 

katepeters.co.uk 

Josefine Rauch

Josefine Rauch is a German photographer based in Offenbach am Main. Her practice investigates transitional spaces and subtle social dynamics, exploring how belonging and identity are shaped through place and presence. Her work navigates the tension between community and individuality, focusing on in-between states, moments of isolation, and overlooked details. She studied Aesthetics in Frankfurt and Los Angeles. 

@josefine.rauch 

josefinerauch.com 

Hermione Russell

Hermione Russell (b.1988) is a photographic artist from London, UK. Her work uses the alchemical properties of analogue film and photography to explore themes of legacy, memory and identity. She has a BA in Social Anthropology from London School of Economics, an MA in Visual Anthropology from Goldsmiths University, and an MA in photography from University of the West of England. 

@hermionegracerussell

Evan Schwartz

Evan Schwartz’s narrative work explores the process of human behavior, identity and transformation with a focus on gender. He has shown his work in New York, California, Mexico City, Miami, the UK, Russia and Italy and has been published by the New York Times, La Stampa, and The Guardian among others. He currently lives and works in Stamford, CT. 

@eschwartzphoto/ 

evanschwartzphoto.com 

CREDIT: Sarah Noons
Sujata Setia

Sujata is an Indian-born interdisciplinary artist. Her socially engaged practice studies gender-based erasure, inherited structures and cultural imperialism. Her ongoing project A Thousand Cuts has received the Wellcome Photography Prize, the Sony World Photography Award (Creative category), LensCulture Critics’ Choice Award amongst others. She is also the recipient of several grants including the Centre for British Photography Grant to continue bringing subaltern histories into the artistic and public domain. 

@sujatasetia/ 

sujatasetia.com 

Krista Svalbonas

Krista Svalbonas is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores displacement, migration, and cultural memory. Her photographs and installations have been exhibited internationally at venues including Paris Photo, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, and Klompching Gallery in New York. Her work is held in collections such as LACMA and the Gregg Museum. Recent solo exhibitions of Displacement have been presented in Denmark, Estonia, Germany, and Lithuania. 

@kristasvalbonas/ 

kristasvalbonas.com 

CREDIT: Alissa Autschbach
Mara Vodinelic

Mara's earliest memory is interrupting a kindergarten play at age three to inform her mother she should be filming it with the family camcorder. Her mother pointed to the cameraman stage left. Mara remembers thinking, “It’s not good from this angle.” She wishes she could think about something else for once, but she can't. The angle is everything. 

@cinem.a.r.a/ 

Wang Weirong

Wang Weirong (b. Shenzhen, China) is an artist, translator, and curator. He holds degrees from Shenzhen University and Tokyo University of the Arts (Intermedia Art). His practice combines photography, archival research, and found images to explore hypothetical narratives and the fictive nature of memory. Shortlisted for PIP Kunpeng Award (2025); winner of IDPA Unseen Photo Book Award (2024). Exhibited internationally. 

@wangweirong_ 

wangweirong.com 

Oliver Woods

Oliver Woods is a British photographic artist based in London. He graduated from Liverpool John Moores University after studying Fine Art and has also worked as radio and TV journalist. His most recent work explores themes around family, emotion and grief using carefully observed interiors, still life's and portraits. He is working with Gost Books about his most recent project. 

@oliverwoodsphoto/ 

youaremyoneandonly.co.uk 

Almudena Zambrana

Almudena Zambrana (1996) is a Spanish documentary photographer based in Australia. Her work explores migration, identity, displacement and lived experience through long-term documentary projects rooted in personal and social narratives. With a background in visual arts and science, her practice combines sensitivity and analytical thinking, focusing on the psychological and social dimensions of everyday life. 

@almuzambrana 

almuzambrana.com/