London is the place for me! The capital’s best image makers – in pictures

Alys Tomlinson – Samuel, Lost Summer

To people the 10th variation of Photo London, London Lives brings unneurotic implicit 30 of the capital’s astir celebrated and innovative image-makers. Alys Tomlinson works mostly successful achromatic and white, exploring themes of faith, ritual and identity. The Lost Summer portraits were taken successful summertime 2020. With schoolhouse proms cancelled owed to the Covid-19 pandemic, she photographed teenagers dressed successful outfits they would person worn to the prom, changeable successful their gardens, backyards and section parks. London Lives is showing astatine Photo London from 15 – 18 May

Miles Aldridge – The Red Lion #3, 2012

Aldridge roseate to prominence successful the mid-90s with his arresting, highly stylised photographs containing references to movie noir, creation past and popular culture. An acclaimed colourist, helium renders elaborate mise-en-scènes successful a palette of vibrant acidic hues. These eroticised images probe society’s idealised notions of home bliss, wherever sinister undercurrents swirl beneath a flawless surface. Aldridge remains 1 of the fewer photographers inactive shooting predominately connected film

Rut Blees Luxemburg - London Dust, 2014

Rut Blees Luxemburg’s projects see Silver Forest (2016), an architectural installation connected the occidental facade of Westminster metropolis hall, and London Dust (2011–13), a bid of photographs and a movie that hint the accelerated architectural translation of the City of London successful narration to the improvement of CGI photographic representation. She besides created the iconic screen for the Streets’ debut medium Original Pirate Material

Hannah Starkey – Untitled, October 1998

Hannah Starkey is simply a modern British lensman champion known for her images of women successful staged settings. Particularly the metropolis situation of London wherever she is based

Photograph: Courtesy Maureen Paley, London

Jamie Hawkesworth – The British Isles

Jamie Hawkesworth is known for his poetic portrayals of the architecture and radical of Britain. Preferring the slower, much tactile attack of analogue photography, Hawkesworth shoots exclusively connected movie and meticulously develops his ain prints. He surveys the nation’s residents with nuance and empathy, bringing a unsocial consciousness of enigma to his images – qualities which widen crossed his documentary and commercialized manner work

Mitra Tabrizian – Another Country 7, 2010

Over the past 30 years, British-Iranian lensman and filmmaker Mitra Tabrizian has explored themes of alienation and the chasms betwixt 3rd and archetypal worlds, taking cues from the writings of Baudrillard and Lyotard

Nick Turpin – On the Night Bus #29

Renowned thoroughfare lensman Turpin’s bid On the Night Bus was published to overmuch acclaim successful 2017. Shot successful the wintertime months from a raised level successful cardinal London, Turpin captures autobus passengers unawares during their evening commute. The portraits are astatine erstwhile beauteous and acheronian and rise questions astir voyeurism and nationalist and backstage space. Despite being changeable from a agelong mode disconnected with a telephoto lens done heavy windows that obscure oregon blur the subjects, the images uncover an intimate glimpse into the beingness of the metropolis traveller

Chrystel Lebas – Plant Portraits oregon Weeds & Aliens Studies

Chrystel Lebas is simply a London-based ocular creator funny successful encouraging a wider knowing of the analyzable brushwood betwixt humankind and nature. Through photography, the moving representation and dependable she explores and reveals histories concealed successful landscapes

Julia Fullerton-Batten – Bathing by Tower Bridge

Julia Fullerton-Batten is simply a fine-art lensman renowned for her highly cinematic ocular story-telling. Her large-scale projects are based astir circumstantial themes, each representation embellishing her taxable substance successful a bid of thought-provoking communicative ‘stories’ utilizing staged tableaux and blase lighting techniques. Unusual locations, highly originative settings and street-cast models accented with cinematic lighting are hallmarks of her work

David Bailey – East End

Originally from Newham, David Bailey is champion known for his arresting yet spare portraits and manner images, which person conveyed a extremist consciousness of younker and sexuality, often typifying the look of the times. But Bailey has besides taken galore photos of London’s East End implicit his lifetime, documenting the changing carnal and societal scenery of eastbound London. Although celebrated for the emotion and rigour of his compositions arsenic a representation photographer, Bailey has besides proved his mastery successful imbuing nine and thoroughfare with a visceral consciousness of clip and place

Mary McCartney – Embrace, London 2013

Mary McCartney is simply a satellite renowned photographer, film-maker and sustainable nutrient pioneer. Her enactment pays homage to the artistry of portraiture. Her transportation with the sitter is intimate, idiosyncratic and engaging, the spectator becomes some subordinate and an perceiver of these backstage moments. McCartney’s enactment has been featured globally, and overmuch of it is held successful large backstage and nationalist imperishable collections

Photograph: Courtesy of Château La Coste

Idris Khan – Tower Bridge, London, 2012

Idris Khan draws connected divers taste sources including literature, history, art, euphony and religion. While his mindset is much painterly than photographic, helium often employs the tools of photomechanical reproduction to make his work, photographing oregon scanning from secondary root material. He past builds up the layers of scans digitally, which allows him to meticulously power infinitesimal variances successful contrast, brightness and opacity. The resultant images are often large-scale C-prints with surfaces that person a singular optical intensity

Photograph: Courtesy the creator and Victoria Miro