The Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talent rounds up emerging image-makers from 20 of the world’s best art schools
This year, the competition was fierce. Entrants were given the recurring theme, “Face to Face”, and responded with an arresting range of imagery – ranging from film and photography to fine art. The chosen laureates included London’s Joseph Craven, with his darkly evocative photos of small-town British life; New York’s Ashley Mclean and his tender images of Black fatherhood; and Kyoto’s Yuka Iwahashi, with her hauntingly ominous black and white portraits.
The laureates, as well as Fleminger-Hudson, were selected by a jury presided by legendary Cameroonian-born portrait photographer Samuel Fosso, known most recently for his work with.
Effortlessly beautiful, her images are soaked in humour and emotional complexity: brows are furrowed, eyes are wistful and pleasure is palpable. “It’s a place between reality and fantasy,” Fleminger-Hudson explains. “I’m trying to capture people when they are the most unconscious of being seen – at their most aggressive or most expressive.” A clear perfectionist, she works on every part of the shooting process, from the lighting, casting and make-up to the costume design .
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