Inside Photo London 2025
This year’s Photo London came with the celebration of their 10th anniversary at the iconic Somerset House. A must for collectors paying attention to photography’s growing momentum, the photography fair brought together a curated selection of leading galleries and artists, while placing a spotlight on emerging and rediscovered artists. The 2025 roster reflected a growing commitment to the emerging category in contemporary photography, charting a compelling journey through the medium’s past, present, and future.
The spirit of experimentation and material innovation was one of the fair’s particularly engaging aspects. Many of the featured artists engage with photography not only as a visual medium but also as a tactile, spatial, and conceptual tool to explore themes of memory, transformation, nature, and the body. We host daily VIP tours for our members, uncovering standout works from both rising talents and established names in photography.
Susanne Wellm
Danish artist Susanne Wellmdraws from an archive of both personal and found imagery to create nostalgic, cinematic atmospheres in her Humble Eyes (2023-2024) series. These works showcase her innovative fusion of photography with textile weaving, featuring photographs digitally printed onto woven textile supports. The resulting textural effect invites viewers to pause, evoking natural elements that inspire stillness and reflection.
Alicia Paz
Alicia Paz experiments with textiles in her photographic work Necklace-Tassel (2023). The Mexican-London based artist recently completed an artist residency at Chatsworth house. Paz draws inspiration from ornamental materials such as tassels found throughout the estate. She transfers photographic and photogram images onto delicate fabrics to create a layered mixed media composition. Infused with a sense of theatricality, she describes the work as playing with scale and evoking an ‘Alice in Wonderland ’-like effect, inviting viewers into a tactile, surreal, and immersive visual language.
Niccolò Montesi
Another emergent theme at the fair was reflections on architecture and spatial experience, particularly evident in the evocative photographic collages made by Niccolò Montesi. An Italian artist and trained architect based in Milan, Montesi’s Monte Amiata (2025) series centres an exploration of urban landscapes with a focus on colour, geometry, and spatial relationships. By deliberately cropping out the sky, Montes infuses a dialogue between optical perception and the built environment, inviting viewers to reexamine details of urban environments. Recognised as a promising young artist, he was shortlisted for the prestigious Nico Prize.
Robin Hunter Blake
Robin Hunter Blake, a promising young artist shortlisted for the Nico prize, brings an experimental edge to the fair with his series created using the stroboscopic technique, inspired by Eadweard Muybridge’s (1830-1904) motion studies. Blake blends traditional techniques such as burning, dodging and exposure manipulation with contemporary technology to create work that he describes as “painting with photography through subtraction.” While employing experimental techniques he considers his work as being created in alignment with photography’s original intention to reveal the truth.
Blake’s engagement with Rodin’s sculptural work punctuates his interest in the expressive and emotive capabilities of the human form in flux. Through photography, he captures the energetic gestures of the human body, and with the resulting ghost-like apparitions, he conjures an alternative dimension of reality - one that blurs movement and emotion through the medium of photography.
Tjitske Oosterholt
Oosterholt’s practice is rooted in an intuitive and experimental interaction with matter, in which craft and the innovative use of photographic techniques play a central role. In her work she’s interested in the transience of our natural world, and how we relate to, experience and perceive this. As we are part of the natural world, she examines the way in which we interact with our surroundings and make sense of this ever-changing world around us
Photo London 2025 has proved to be a nurturing platform for both established and emerging artists, spotlighting photography’s growing momentum. From textile-infused surfaces and architectural abstraction to experimental manipulations of the human form, this year’s fair showcases a selection of emerging artists who are reshaping the medium through their conceptual and material exploration.
