The Fashion Awards - NEW WAVE: Creatives 2020

NEW WAVE: Creatives 2020

A list of the 50 most innovative and young creative talents from around the world. Explore the 50 NEW WAVE: Creatives below, with exclusive portraits shot by 2019 recipient Joyce NG. #BFCNEWWAVE

Ágústa Ýr

Filmmaker & Photographer

Arianna Pradarelli

Casting Director

Ágústa Ýr

Artist & Director

Agusta Yr (known as Agu by friends and family) is a director, artist & model originally from Reykjavik, Iceland. She grew up between Miami and Iceland. She moved to New York in 2013 where she studied photography & video at School of Visual arts and worked directing videos for 5 years. In 2019, she appeared in Rihanna’s Savage x Fenty Show. Her video work in 3D has been particularly noted in fashion - she recently created the visuals for Yang Li's Automatic Show II, a 3D project with Moschino, and a number of projects for Love Magazine. As a model she has appeared on the covers of Office Magazine and Editorial Magazine and worked with photographers including Ryan McGinley, Sharna Osborne, Nick Knight, and more. She also frequently collaborates with groundbreaking UK designer Sinead O'Dwyer. Agu currently resides in London with her french bulldogs, Khloe and Milo.

Alvaro Beamud Cortes

Photographer

Alvaro Beamud Cortés is a Spanish photographer currently based in Milan, Italy. He started his career as a photographer at an early age driven by the need to tell stories and he quickly built a strong portfolio of both commercial and editorial collaborations. Alvaro's images are the reflection of his passion for glamorous and sophisticated beauty mixed with a love for travels and an obsession for subtle color palettes. His editorial collaborations include several editions of Vogue Magazine, V Magazine, GQ, Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair. His commercial clients include Bulgari, Dolce & Gabbana, Massimo Dutti, Carolina Herrera, Max Mara, Aquazzurra. Over the years he pleasantly approached portraits and had the chance to capture many celebrities such as Javier Bardem, Roberto Bolle, Eva Green, Scarlett Johansson e Rihanna.

Amber Pinkerton

Filmmaker & Photographer

Amber Pinkerton (b.1997), is a London-based photographer and filmmaker born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. Her works are inspired by Caribbean culture, social commentary and socio-political context. Her images have documented the beauty of life, specifically in Jamaica, with a rich definition of colour. Amber has been featured in The New York Times Style Magazine's list of '15 Creative Women for Our Time' and was listed in the Dazed 100 rankings (2020). She was also included in i-D's list of ‘Photographers to follow in 2020’ and ‘My Year in Photos’.

Arianna Pradarelli

Casting Director

Arianna is an italian Casting Director based between New York and Los Angeles. She discovered her niche for casting in 2006 in Milan, while working at Calvin Klein during her college studies. She moved to New York in 2012 when she started her own company as Casting Director, and in 2014 became the first casting contributor For T Magazine, The New York Times Style. Since then she has been traveling across seas with the best in the industry. Arianna is specialised in women and men's high fashion and has the gift to foresee the top new faces of the season. In recent years she challenged herself with a more "street" approach to casting where she found a new creative style to embrace.

Betsy Johnson

Creative Director & Multidisciplinary

Betsy Johnson

Creative Director & Multidisciplinary

Born and raised in Grimsby, the small town in Northern England and now London based, BETSY JOHNSON is a creative director; specialising in fashion styling, photography, casting, directing, branding and consulting. Growing up in a working-class environment from a traveller background heritage, her political views were highly anti-snob, left wing, and labour from a very young age. Especially after the recession.

Brandon Bowen

Photographer

Brandon Bowen is a photographer born and raised in Los Angeles. He got into photography at a young age through skateboarding and taking photos of his friends. This led to studying photography at Art Center college of Design in Pasadena. At the age of 23 he shot his first album cover with the Nine Inch Nails. Since then he has shot album covers for Post Malone along with shooting Lady Gaga, The Weekend, Young Thug, Janelle Monae, Ariana Grande and other Celebrities. His perspective has landed him assignments in Vogue, i-d, Office, Rolling Stone, Paper, Crack, Clash and more shooting for companies like Red Bull, Doublet, A Cold Wall, Opening Ceremony, Spotify, MISBHV and Noir Keininomiya.

Carlijn Jacobs

Photographer

Carlijn Jacobs is a photographer born in The Netherlands. She is currently based between Paris and London. With a distinctly cinematic style, Jacobs’ images tell a story, sometimes through a beguiling main character. She has an irreverent, offbeat way of showing you what she wants to show you.

Cécile Paravina

Make-up Artist

Cécile Paravina is a make-up artist based in Paris. It is during her fashion design course at the prestigious Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp that she dedicated herself to beauty. Strong of an extensive art history and fashion culture, she infuses her work with sophistication, refinement and great attention to detail. In 2019 she joined Bryant Artists and since then has collaborated with major players in the industry such as Charlotte Wales, Paul Kooiker, Arnaud Lajeunie, Camille Vivier, Joshua Woods, Georgia Pendlebury, Patti Wilson, Nell Kalonji, Haley Wollens, Vanessa Reid etc... Her fresh modern approach to beauty through editorial and digital.... She carries her identity beyond the frame of make-up itself, and approaches character design.

Davit Giorgadze

Artist

Elizaveta Porodina

Artist & Photographer

Esther Theaker

Filmmaker & Photographer

Fenn O'Meally

Director & Journalist

Davit Giorgadze

Artist

Davit Giorgadze is a Georgian artist now based in Berlin. He is best known for photography and collages combined with drawing and sculpture. His work is based on character studies, he explores their culture and sensitivity and gives a voice and visibility to the personas that matter the most. Referencing personal childhood memories and finding a reinterpretation of given labels for each individual and what is their purpose in society, or what it should be. The lack of diversity growing up in Tbilisi, Georgia was the main reason for him to start documenting people in different social environments, show their personalities and tell their stories.

Elizaveta Porodina

Artist & Photographer

I'm used to walking in the world with my eyes and soul wide open. Listening, looking, perceiving, receiving, admiring and "recording" everything around me. Nothing and no one bores me or is insignificant to me, I really believe in the uniqueness and energy that is available for and in everything and anyone" Elizaveta Porodina is a Russian artist, photographer and clinical psychologist known for her surrealist themes and use of symbolism. Sympathy and empathy for human behavior serve as a compass for her to imagine images behind which we always perceive a larger story that leads us into fantastic scenarios. Her work has been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries in Europe, where the artist resides. Porodina was born in 1987 in Moscow to scientific parents.

Esther Theaker

Filmmaker & Photographer

‘Esther effortlessly captures the ‘in-between’ . . . offering the viewer a proximity to the subject that translates to a balance of intimacy and excitement.’ (Oliver Knight & Rory McGrath, Founder of the design studio OK-RM) London based Photographer & Filmmaker Esther Theaker received her BA in Film from London College of Communication. Her work explores themes of movement, temporality, and voyeurism. Her commercial clients include: Hermès, Jil Sander, Bottega Veneta, Burberry, Pringle of Scotland, Nanushka, Alyx, Trussardi, Barena, Super Yaya, Selfridges, Wales Bonner and Bokja Design. Esther has shot editorials for Double Magazine, POP, System Magazine, Doc- ument Journal, AnOther Magazine, The Gentlewoman, DAZED, More or Less, Marfa Journal and SSAW.

Fenn O'Meally

Director & Journalist

London based Fenn O’Meally, is an award-winning Director and Journalist. With an authentic and malleable voice for storytelling, her work crosses many mediums from film to radio. She has collaborated with some of fashion and music’s most renowned names, whilst also hosting her own specialist show on BBC R1Xtra, spotlighting the stories of the creative world. Signed to the award-winning production company Smuggler, she has directed films for Prada, Apple, Nike, Chanel and Dior to name a few. From moving image to stills her eclectic work features the likes of Stormzy, Spike Lee, Wu TangClan, Texas, Raye Maverick Sabre, Big Zuu, Labyrinth and JNR Williams, for which she was awarded the Silver Screen Music Video by the Young Director Awards. Fenn has been covered by the likes of i-D, W Magazine, British Vogue, Dazed, Elle and many more. She is quickly becoming one of the industry’s most exciting creative names.

Flora Huddart

Consultant & Stylist

Furmaan Ahmed

Image Maker & Set Designer

Gabriel Moses

Director & Photographer

Gemma Smith-Edhouse

Make-up Artist

Flora Huddart

Consultant & Stylist

I went freelance as a stylist just over a year ago, after assisting Jacob K for 4 years and Sara Moonves at Vogue US. I studied Philosophy, intending to go into Human Rights Law, but due to a twist of fate post-graduation I ended up in Berlin. This was a very formative period throughout which I lived with an artists collective and worked on nightclub doors and as a cleaner (The Mean Green Cleaning Team-all environmentally friendly home-made product!). During this time I realised that my life long obsessions with visual balance and colour palettes/ history and drama/ expression through clothing were something I could be immersed in through styling and image making.

Furmaan Ahmed

Image Maker & Set Designer

Furmaan Ahmed (1995) is a multi disciplinary artist from Glasgow who has a fluid practise between installation art, image making, set and stage design and art direction. They are a recent graduate from Central Saint Martins (2020) and receiver of the Robertson Trust Scholarship (2016) who has already worked with galleries and community projects such as Gossamer Fog, Jupiter Artland, Tate Modern and Southbank Centre. In Furmaan's collaborative practise as an image maker, set designer and art director they have photographed and collaborated with artists such as Willow Smith, SOPHIE, Sasha Velour, Dorian Electra, Kate Moss and David Lachapelle. Across all mediums of Furmaan’s work, they create images and live places that can act as sites of emotional knowledge exchanges for POC queer and trans bodies.

Gabriel Moses

Director & Photographer

Gabriel Moses is a 22 year old, South London based Director & Photographer. After directing his first film with Nike at 18, Gabriel has since gone on to work with the likes of Off-White, Converse & Matthew Williams Alyx, Gabriel is also set to become the youngest ever photographer to shoot the cover of Dazed & Confused magazine. Despite having no formal training of both film & photography, Gabriel continues to make a name for himself by revealing a universal humanity in his subjects in a beautifully composed & experimental manner.

Gemma Smith-Edhouse

Make-up Artist

Gemma’s love of creating portraits from a young age using photography, pencils and oils and her fascination with light and the human form led to painting faces for photographic sittings whilst studying economics in Manchester. Her love of music and fashion imagery was ignited when she worked at The Hacienda where she was booked by her first client for The Face magazine. She soon found her passion for bringing images to life as part of a creative team. After keying her first show for Vivienne Westwood requests in London followed with an international career in fashion not far behind.. Her travel and attention to ever evolving tastes and culture informs her eye for texture, structure and detail. She elevates her subjects by understanding something about them as individuals with care and attention to accentuating uniqueness and celebrating their strength. Although her focus is on beautiful imagery, if a statement is to be made, she enjoys pushing boundaries.

Huang Jiaqi

Creative Director & Photographer

Huang Jiaqi

Creative Director & Photographer

Huang Jiaqi is a Chengdu born & Shanghai based Creative Director & Photographer who’s collaborated with brands such as Balenciaga & Burberry. He regularly shoots features for Rouge Fashion Book, i-D Asia, Vogue Me, Hello Mr., L’officiel, GQ & T Magazine. Huang Jiaqi's visual style is derived from his long-term attention to contemporary youth culture and independent art, and shows the influence of these cultural roots in his works, and transforms it into a distinctively provocative visual language. He’s currently working on his selfie project entitled “be your own light’ which he plans to exhibit in China mid 2021.

Issac Poleon

Hair Stylist

Hairstylist Issac Poleon is based in London, specialising in Afro as well as European hair textures, his deeply creative craft and approachable nature has led him to work with top image makers, including Tim Walker, Nick Knight, Paulo Reversi, Danniel Sanwald, Campbell Addy and Nadine Ijewere. Issacs unique eye for the representation of hair through photographic and moving image fields is a driving force, from conception through to execution this aesthetic is ever present. Issacs work has been featured in editorial, advertising, music and film sectors, clients include Marc Jacobs, Dazed, Louis Vuitton, I-D, Gareth Pugh, Valentino, Nike, Charles Jeffrey and Sony. As well as working for specific media outlets Issac works with talent to elevate their presence through the power of hair.

Issac Yu

Hair Stylist

Issac’s solid styling technique, unique perception of beauty, exceptional communication skills and extensive network have now made him one of the most promising hairstylists in China. His work is always featured in fashion magazines, commercials and fashion shows.

Jabez Bartlett

Set Designer

Growing up in South Devon, I was very excited by nature, and constantly trying to push that excitement on those around me. Through exposure to books, music and films I discovered the effect and power of narrative. Teenage obsession and self-taught filmmaking then led me to the prestigious Bournemouth film school. Here, I realised my real interest lay in the design and art direction of films. Once graduated, I moved to London, and after a stint as a set builder, I then became one of the youngest feature film and television Art Directors in the country.

Janina Zais

Hair Stylist & Make-up Artist

John Yuyi

Artist

Kai-Isaiah Jamal

Activist, Model, Performer & Poet

Kalle Eklund

Hair Stylist

Janina Zais

Hair Stylist & Make-up Artist

Janina Zais, born in 1986 in Hildesheim Germany, was raised into a family of artists. Since her father painted professional air brush on coffins, Janina quickly developed her own sense and passion for working with colours at an early age. Her mother introduced her to doing ballet at the age of 3. She spent 12 years of her childhood being a ballet dancer, while developing a keen interest for costumes and especially for doing make-up before big performances. At that young age she already made the decision, that she wanted to establish herself in the fashion and make-up industry. Therefore she started an education as a hairdresser and makeup artist after school.

John Yuyi

Artist

John Yuyi is a Taiwanese visual artist based in New York City who uses the internet as the platform for much of her creative work. She explores themes of modern life which happens to be mainly took role by social media. Her works reflect the emotion of herself (bipolar disorder) and the feeling of the society by the daily observation. She likes to explore the relationships between skin and body. Temporary tattoos and selfies are what she's best known for. Yuyi has been invited for art collaboration with fashion brands for creative campaigns such as Gucci, Nike, Maison Margiela , and KENZO.

Kai-Isaiah Jamal

Activist, Model, Performer & Poet

Kai-Isaiah Jamal is a spoken word poet, performer, model and trans visibility activist using Instagram as a tool for good. Kai draws on their own personal experiences as a trans person of colour dealing with dysphoria, displacement and uncertainty– unraveling huge, universal themes through the lens of poetics online and bringing us their audience in, concluding simply that to be human is to feel all of these things.

Kalle Eklund

Hair Stylist

Kalle Eklund was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1990. At the age of 18 he dropped out of beauty school, when he got a full time job in a hair salon where he got the opportunity to start assisting on photoshoots. After a few years living in Stockholm and Berlin, Kalle found his base in London earlier this year. As Kalle explains, “My work is about understanding what is needed for a particular shoot, and then creating a style that enhances the existing theme or character. I don’t like to complicate things. For me, it’s about working towards the perfect image, rather than adding hairstyling simply for the sake of doing something with the hair.”

Kiyoko Odo

Hair Stylist

Labō Young

Stylist & Visual Artist

Kiyoko Odo

Hair Stylist

Born in Shimonoseki and now based in London, Kiyoko Odo grew up reading Harajuku street-style bible FRUiTS magazine, an influence that frequently runs through her work. Having skipped the salon and gone straight to assisting aged 19, Kiyoko is now one of London’s brightest new hair stylists in demand across many magazines and fashion shows. Some of her signature hair moments include supersized pig tails for Junya Watanabe, barristerial hints for Kiko Kostadinov and Bo Peep ringlets for Yuhan Wang.

Labō Young

Stylist & Visual Artist

My name is Labo, 25 years old. I live in Belém do Pará, Brazilian Amazon. I'm a visual artist and stylist. My work talks about the power of my Amazonian culture and the importance of passing on ancestral knowledge that is reflected in the techniques I use to carry out my works. I usually work with plants, straw and tree seeds, where I reframe these materials, transforming them into clothes and accessories.

Larissa Hofmann

Photographer

Born and raised in the South of Germany, self-taught photographer, Larissa Hofmann moved to Paris after graduating art school in 2011 aged 19, where she began modelling. She then relocated to NYC to continue this career path. In 2017, Hofmann moved back to Germany and settled in Berlin where she began taking and printing photographs. Larissa currently lives and works in London.

Latisha Chong

Hair Stylist

Latisha Chong is a Trinidad born hair stylist who currently resides in NYC. She believes that the art of hairstyling is an intimate exchange that salutes the divinity in each individual. Latisha’s work has been showcased in renowned publications such as Vogue, Garage and i-D. She hopes to create a digital imprint that future generations can reference as her legacy.

Louis Burguet

Creative Director

Luis Alberto Rodriguez

Photographer & Videographer

Louis Burguet

Creative Director

Paris based Creative Director Louis Burguet, founded his studio in 2018. He is specializing in image and brand strategy with an innovative global approach across fashion, beauty and interior design. . Before graduating from the « Ecole nationale Supérieur des Arts Décoratif » and studying a year at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he joined Aesop’s Design team and participated in the development of the brand in Europe. In 2018, after founding his creative studio, he worked on the advertising campaign of Amina Muaddi and the last images of the Italian brand, The Attico. Through precise and emotive visuals, he has created his own identity.

Luis Alberto Rodriguez

Photographer

(New York, USA) Luis Alberto Rodriguez studied dance at the Juilliard School, New York where he received his BFA. He is a self-taught photographer and has exhibited work at Wanås Konst (SE) The Library Project (IR), Fotografiska New York (US), Aperture Foundation (US), and PhotoVogue Festival (IT). His work has been published in various art and fashion publications. In 2017, he was awarded both the Public Prize and the American Vintage prize at 32nd Festival of Fashion and Photography Hyères, France. In the Spring of 2018, he was shortlisted for Document Journal’s The New Vanguard Prize and was one of Red Hook Labs New Artists. In the fall of 2018 he was in residence at CowHouse Studios, Wexford, Ireland in correlation with FUTURES and in collaboration with PhotoIreland. The resulting book People of the Mud was published by Loose Joints in February 2020.

Marie Higuchi

Stylist

Marie Higuchi, born in 1988, is a freelance stylist and in 2019, Marie joined TRON Management. Her work includes being featured in ELLE JAPAN, ELLEgirl, NYLON JAPAN, SO-EN, WWD JAPAN, GIRL HOUYHNHNM, REVS JAPAN, The Fashion Post, FIERCIVE magazine, request QJ, MAPS magazine, Schon magazine, NicOtiNe magazine, DEW magazine, VOLT magazine, sicky magazine and FORUMIST magazine.

Marili Andre

Photographer & Videographer

Marili Andre is a London-based photographer / videographer who originates from the south of Greece, Crete. She left the island and flew to the UK at the age of seventeen, in 2008, in order to pursue a career in fashion photography. Marili discovered early on, at the age of fourteen, what her calling was and repeatedly went for it drawing inspiration from cinema and her mother’s love for shoes and garments. She constantly kept active by photographing local teens & friends up to the point of her departure.

Marlou Fernanda

Artist

The effervescent Dutch self-taught artist whose practice centres around a fearless navigation of colour. Working from a very personal point of view, her art frequently features a central character who is visually reminiscent of herself. Fernanda is also the subject of her own performative yet documentary-like short films, which, sometimes humorous – other times more pensive, address everything from faith to loneliness to the creative process. With a particular focus on painting, Fernanda also works as a performance artist and creative director. She has created live performances for the Foam Museum Amsterdam and Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, given workshops in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, independently set up a solo exhibition in the heart of Amsterdam and worked as a creative director for international artists, including Sevdaliza.

Megan Winstone

Photographer

Inspired by punk culture and feminist theory, the Welsh photographer Megan Winstone makes sexy, provocative work that challenges societal norms. Megan Winstone first became interested in photography through punk culture. Obsessed with the likes of Vivienne Westwood and the 1977 King’s Road happenings from a young age, as well as a fascination with feminist theory developed later in life. “I’m a big girl diagnosed with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and hated the negative body imagery in the majority of culture,” she explains. The focal point of her recent work however, is the photographer’s Welsh heritage and the communities that inhabit it. This formed the theme of her latest spread for Love Magazine, leading to follow up collaborations with publications such as Vogue and Ten Magazine, and most recently an assignment to document the UK’s rising stars in music and fashion for Vogue Global Network.

Moyosore Briggs

Model & Photographer

Moyosore Briggs was born in Lagos, Nigeria. She is a recent graduate from the University of the Arts London, where she obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Photography. She began her art career as a self taught event photographer and currently works as a photographer and model in London. Alongside her photography, Moyosore’s art practice encompasses writing and publishing. She’s worked as a contributing editor on multiple publications, as well as self publishing her own written & photographic work. Moyosore’s current art practice revolves around photography and digital manipulation, self portraiture in particular, within her photography, she tries to find the beauty within the poor image.

Nicola Kast

Casting Director

Nicola Kast is a German born South African raised Casting Director, now based in New York City. She is known for her particular eye for street-casting as well as agency models, she works with both established and emerging art photographers. Nicola has contributed to publications such as Double, M Le Monde, Re-Edition, AnOther and Vogue Italia, working with Photographers such as Roe Ethridge, Collier Schorr, Zoe Ghertner, Richard Burbridge, Viviane Sassen and Carlijn Jacobs. Commercial clients include Jil Sander, Coach, Uniqlo, Missoni, Dior and Peter Do.

Ola Ebiti

Stylist

Ola Ebiti is a Nigerian stylist based in London. Specializing in menswear, his clients include Browns, Selfridges, Paul Smith, O -White, Farfetch, Zara and Apple. He is the Senior Fashion Editor-at-Large at Ten Men Magazine and he regularly shoots for leading publications including Dazed China, e Face, Vogue Ukraine, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair and Sunday Times Style. He has also worked on music videos for artists such as Neneh Cherry, Celeste, Michael Kiwanuka and Kelsey Lu.

Patrick Glatthaar

Make-up Artist

Patrick Glatthaar was born in the South of Germany in 1985, he lives and works between Paris and Berlin. Originally trained as a hairdresser, Glatthaar moved to Vienna in 2008 to focus on makeup. After 8 years in Austria, he moved to Berlin in 2016 to develop new collaborations with photographers and stylists and expand his practice. He regularly works with publications and clients such as Pop Magazine, British Vogue, Revue Beauty, Exhibition Magazin, SSAW, M le Monde, Vogue Germany, Numero, 032C, Louis Vuitton, Hermès, Burberry, Hugo Boss, Rimowa, GCDS, MCM, and Zara.

PZ Opassuksatit

Artist & Designer

PZ Opassuksatit is a Thai-born artist and designer based in Paris. Since working as the Head of Image and Visual Design at VETEMENTS for 3 years (from 2015 to 2018), She had the opportunity to collaborate with many amazing projects on her name with the likes of Helmut Lang (US), Marc Jacobs (US), Alber Elbaz (FR), Doublet (JP), Virgil Abloh (FR), Bimba Y Lola (ES), The Face Magazine (UK), to name a few. Her work was shown in different locations from the Trading Museum Comme des Garçons in Paris to Dover Street Market in London, New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo. She published two books PZWORLD and PZWORLD Wedding Edition in collaboration with IDEA (UK). She is now the founder of PZtoday, an experimental laboratory specialised in image design, art direction, visual merchandising, object design and concept selling. She consider herself as a comedian.

Quil Lemons

Photographer

Lemons' work is a representation of the community he comes from. While his subject is often blackness or black bodies, the context of his work comes from the internet, queerness, and popular culture. The themes of his work are timeless and ambitious in scope; masculinity, queerness, and race are played out in often disruptive images that feel like pure imagination. Lemons dances the line between the fantastic and realistic, drawing influence from our current cultural climate, giving his work an eerily familiar feeling.

Rafael Pavarotti

Photographer

Sakeema Peng Crook

Activist & Performance Artist

Scandebergs

Directors & Image Makers

Sgàire Wood

Make-up Artist & Performance Artist

Rafael Pavarotti

Photographer

Photographer Rafael Pavarotti was born in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest in 1993. His earliest photographs were made in collaboration with his young friends, who pooled their money to purchase film shot along the beaches and around the abandoned buildings of their locale. At 16, Pavarotti left his remote hometown, committed to establishing a professional practice in the urban centers of fashion and media. Pavarotti attributes the rich and vibrant color palette of his photographs to the everyday sights of his upbringing. His work is often characterized by its fusion of vivid tones with bold compositional arrangements, revealing fashion as sculptural adornment.

Sakeema Peng Crook

Activist & Performance Artist

Sakeema Peng Crook is a London-based dancer, artist and trans activist. Crook graduated from the London Contemporary Dance School in 2015 and has since toured works by Shobana Jeyasingh, Fevered Sleep and Alexander Whitley, and performed for Years and Years’ Pyramid Stage set at Glastonbury in 2019. Crook is an active member of the London Ballroom Scene, and is one of the original dancers at Europe’s first LGBTQIA+ Strip Club, Harpies Strip Club. She was a prominent speaker during the BLM protests and is continuing her collaboration with Kristen collective as they delve into CGI, AR and physical performance.

Scandebergs

Directors & Image Makers

Scandebergs is Alberto Albanese and Stefano Colombini, Italian image-makers and directors based in London. Through the use of lm photography, hand printing techniques, and a distinctive colour palette, they take a cinematic approach to their imagery, creating surreal environments and exploring narrative themes. eir masterful use of light creates a breadth of work that mixes both performance with photography into a style that has won them commissions from fashion, art, editorial and commercial clients such as Vogue Italia, Prada, Kenzo and Nike. Scandebergs have exhibited internationally, with Red Hook Labs in New York, at Armani/Silos, and group shows in collaboration with Vogue Italia in Milan. Notable commissions to date include Time Magazine’s Next 100 Covers, fashion for Dust, campaigns with Stella McCartney, Adidas and Church’s.

Sgàire Wood

Make-up Artist & Performance Artist

Sgàire Wood is an Irish artist, designer, model and performer based in Glasgow, Scotland. She graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 2017. Through a fantastical combination of fashion, makeup, set, choreography and performance, she carves out ephemeral spaces, both on and offline, for meaningful interpersonal connection and necessary emotional exorcism. Known for doll-like, exaggerated silhouettes and even more exaggerated makeup, Sgàire uses artifice and anachronism to achieve moments of honesty and authenticity and employs facetious humour to deconstruct societal taboos around mental illness, psychological trauma, gender and sexuality. Whether in a noisy bar or more traditional fine art environment, she invites her audience, physical or virtual, to heal and bond through highly aestheticised anonymous moments of intimacy which also provide catharsis and release for the artist herself.

Stephen Tayo

Photographer

Tayo lives, works in and draws inspiration from Lagos. B. 1994 in Lagos Nigeria. Stephen Tayo is a photographer who captures intimate portraits that reveal the sartorial flair and quiet dignity of his sitters. Focusing on their clothing and accessories, his work explores the multi-layered symbolism of fashion: what clothing says about identity and relations with family and community. He also often trains his lens on everyday, commonplace but yet undocumented subcultures; elevating ordinary moments of his environment: at festivals, family celebrations, friendships, across Nigeria and beyond. His sitters are usually active participants in the act of picture taking ; they perform along with the photographer or often times even set the tone. Adopting formal poses that were popular in the studio photography in West Africa in the 1950s and 1960s, his work is influenced by the portraits of Seydou Keita, Malick Sidibe and Samuel Fosso.

Trey Gaskin

Journalist & Model

Trey Gaskin is a model, journalist, host of appropriately titled podcast O.T.T. Originally hailing from Boston, Trey moved to London in 2016 to study BA Fashion Journalism at Central Saint Martins. The recent graduate has written for publications including L'officiel USA and i-D. As an extension of Trey’s final major project at Saint Martin's they launched fashion and pop culture podcast O.T.T in 2020. Season one guests include supermodel Pat Cleveland, pop-star Shamir and trailblazing designers Saul Nash, Harrris Reid and Gareth Wrighton. As a model, Trey has been seen in publications including W, i-D, and Grazia and they have modeled for designers like Christian Cowan, Charles Jeffery, Wales Bonner, and Mowalola.

Trinity Ellis

Photographer

Trinity Ellis is a British photographer whose work is characterised by a rich jewel-toned colour palette and dream-like imagery. He is known for his meticulous printing process and considered lighting techniques - recent works have been focused on identity and masculinity. Ellis resides in London, England, and is currently studying Fine Art at Camberwell College of the Arts.

Valentina Li

Make-up Artist

I am Valentina Li, a freelance makeup artist based in Shanghai. I started my career as a makeup artist while I was learning in Makeupforever academy in paris from 2013-2015. I have my own understanding about makeup, I love the traditional way that makeup helps people become more beautiful and confident and I also love that makeup can help people transform into anything they want. As a child, I watched lots of sci-fi movies and in the meanwhile fascinated by mother nature,it gave me all my inspiration for creating my makeup looks. It is most satisfying for me to create a whole new character which can combine different materials and makeup.

Vasily Agrenenko

Photographer

Born and raised in Moscow. In 2014 moved to London. Studied Fashion Photography at London College, graduated in 2017. In the past few years I’ve been working on a multiple fashion editorial shoots and ongoing personal project. In my practise as a photographer I like to explore and play with archetypes. My goal is to create an image/story that will tap into subconsciousness. I believe that one of the greatest things about art is a capacity to generate or, perhaps, to conduct an inspirational impulse. Ability to pass on that intensity, that converts futility into ideas and effort, is what always fascinated me.

Yasser Abubeker

Director & Producer

Yasser Abubeker is a London based producer and director. As a queer, second-generation British-Eritrean, he recognises the importance of visibility for black artists and crew members and is passionate about collaborating with black artists creating innovative work. Yasser has produced for up-and-coming artists such as Fashion East designer Maximilian Davis, CSM alum Feben Vemmenby, and rising musicians Ms. Carrie Stacks and Shygirl. Yasser has produced cover shoots with renowned photographer Liz Johnson Artur for The New York Times Style Magazine, featuring FKA Twigs, and for Garage Magazine, featuring Michaela Coel. He also co-produced the 2018 web-series, Jason's closet.