A Saigon cheerleader, a goal-hanging dad and a 90-year-old party princess make up the subjects of this year’s most forward-thinking portraiture award
Reasons to be cheer full … Phuong from the Saigon Beast cheerleading team, 2023. Photograph: Christian SinibaldiWilson was compelled to broaden the existing aesthetics and visual language of pregnancy by focusing on what can sometimes dismissively be referred to as ‘socially atypical mothers’. In a bid to subvert this cycle of representation and to embrace all types of beauty, she has spent nearly three years in pursuit of this vulnerable and revealing project.
Ingvar Kenne’s overarching body of work CITIZEN spans nearly 30 years and 70 countries. He uses the same camera, lens and film to democratise his sitters. Despite his acting plaudits, Jacob Elordi appears against a modest backdrop; his impressive pliability adding a surreal element to the mundane setting
Nick van Tiem’s portraits speak of his long-term collaboration with the Broke Boys collective: where five friends from Cape Town, South Africa, countered financial insecurity with brotherhood, aspiration and creativity. Here we see boys opening the trunk of a BMW that they drove between cities to sell their new branded clothingIn this alternative family portrait, Niiranen lines up in goal alongside his wife, Nicole, and daughters, Laura and Maija.
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