The ninth edition of Photo London has announced the shortlisted photographers for its Nikon Emerging Photographer Award 2024. The shortlist includes Aisha Seriki, Ali Tahayori, Caroline Tompkins, Charlie Tallott, Inês d’Orey, Isabelle Young, Johnny Mae Hauser, Lise Johansson, and Sander Coers. This announcement precedes the annual photo fair, scheduled for May 16th to 19th, with a preview on May 15th at Somerset House.
The award, inaugurated in 2015, is part of a collaboration with Nikon that intends to elevate the profiles of new, young lens-based artists. “Nikon has a proud legacy spanning more than 100 years of empowering photographers to tell stories in powerful ways,” said Julian Harvie, Nikon’s marketing director for Northern Europe. “The immensity of talent among emerging photographers is breathtaking. ”
The shortlisted photographers represent a diverse geographic mix—from Nigerian artist Aisha Seriki photography influenced by the Yoruba spiritual tradition (presented at the fair by Doyle Wham) to Dutch German photographer Johnny Mae Hauser’s blurred photographs, shown by Homecoming Gallery.
Also shortlisted is Lise Johansson, who will be exhibiting work with Copenhagen-founded In The Gallery, employing digitally manipulated images of miniature scenes to create dream-like scenarios, as well as Sander Coers’s nuanced depictions of contemporary masculinity at London’s Open Doors Gallery .
In 2023, the Nikon Emerging Photographer Award was awarded to French artist Léa Habourdin won, following British photographer Max Miechowski in 2022.
