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The Photo London Emerging Photographer Award, presented in partnership with Nikon, launched in 2015 and was set up to nurture and enable the career development of emerging photographic artists. The shortlisted work for 2026 is on display at Photo London
Passing by Sal Taylor Kydd, 2026. Photograph: Sal Taylor KyddFri 15 May 2026 09.48 CESTLast modified on Fri 15 May 2026 09.49 CEST
Anne Hathaway by Devin Oktar Yalkin (Portraits series)
Minimal black and white elements with intense contrast come together in a striking style in Oktar Yalkın’s photographs where he transforms a mood, subject, or scene into a mystical image. Photograph: Courtesy of the artist and Devin
Il-Giorniale by Ci Demi, 2021
This series is, first and foremost, a story of colour. By using flash in broad daylight, these framed and frozen scenes mourn a peaceful nostalgia while simultaneously paying tribute to the unstoppable flow of time. Whether viewed individually or as a whole, each photograph is an attempt to halt the gears of a metropolis of sixteen million people. ‘In this particular shot, while walking home after a fruitless day of photography, I noticed a newspaper, the trousers it was tucked into, and finally the figure.’
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 unsettling crimes of the Ndrangheta. The work engages with landscape and forensic traces, employing specialised lighting to reveal subtle marks, textures, and traces left behind, echoes of human violence that the eye might otherwise miss. Through this forensic approach, the photographs capture hidden details: scars on the earth, remnants of past activities, and the silent testimony of spaces that have witnessed crimes.Photograph: Steffi Reimers/Courtesy Contour Gallery
Escalas Temporales by Sebastian Gonzalez, 2025
González’s photographic series recording rock formations in the Andean highlands does not idealise their monumentality; instead, they are observed as vulnerable bodies, cracked by time and the elements. He tears, sands, and intervenes in the photographs: he does not merely represent wear, he performs it on the image itself. Photography becomes fragile matter, an eroded surface. In these series, the lithic landscape appears as a mirror of a broader process: everything that seems permanent is in fact subject to change.Photograph: Sebastian Gonzalez/Courtesy Carlos Caamano Proyecto Fotografico
Passing by Sal Taylor Kydd, 2026
Taylor Kidd’s work interweaves photography, poetry, and alternative processes to explore themes of memory, belonging, and the passage of time. ‘Within a few weeks in Spring 2024, I lost both my father and my brother. In my grief, I threw myself into my writing and photography, trying to process everything and find my equilibrium. I was reeling, trying to regain a foothold, in a world where I felt the walls were crumbling. Through the making of these images, I began to look outside of myself and reconnect with and find joy in, the beauty of the world around me.’ Photograph: Alta Vista Arts
Alfred Smee Pruned His Roses by Edward Rollitt, 2024
Rollitt is a British interdisciplinary artist whose practice moves across sculpture, installation, film, and photography to explore the psychology of space and the role of objects in shaping identity, memory, and social structures. Working with antique furniture, decayed textiles, soil, and the accumulated materials of domestic life, he builds environments that function as portraits: figures rendered not through likeness but through the things that surrounded them, each room absorbing and giving back the emotional residue of an imagined life.Photograph: Victoria Law Projects
Swallows Pride by Devin Oktar Yalkin, 2020
Oktar Yalkın: ‘Working in black and white, I trace surfaces marked by time, including salt air, worn bannisters, and the imprint of bodies, constructing a quiet architecture of feeling shaped by touch, duration, and the fragile continuity of family.’Photograph: Courtesy of the artist and Devin
Untitled Cowboy 1 by Baud Postma, 2025
In his series Death of the Author, Postma uses AI as a tool for conceptual enquiry, generating images through text-to-image platforms and then subjecting them to analogue interventions, opening a dialogue between the past, present and future of photography, inviting viewers to consider how new technologies might coexist with traditional practices. The cowboy as a subject is a potent metaphor for the AI revolution: on one hand representing freedom, opportunity and self-determination; on the other, invoking histories of exploitation and cultural upheaval. Photograph: Canopy Collections
Broken Provenance II: Four gilded rosettes flicker like small suns, Akshay Mahajan
Broken Provenance is an ongoing body of work by Mahajan that examines the dispersal of Indo-Portuguese and Goan devotional objects through auction catalogues, private collections and colonial systems of description. Combining photographed sites in Goa with collaged fragments of displaced objects and catalogue language, the work treats provenance not as a stable history of ownership, but as a broken record of extraction, faith, commerce and forgetting. Photograph: Courtesy the artist and Gallery Art & SoulExplore more on these topics
