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MARIE LAFFONT
COZYLAND
WONDERLAND
AMBER PINKERTON [LALALAND ARTISTS]
i-D
Born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1997, Amber Pinkerton is a London based photographer and filmmaker. Amber’s photography is a reflection and examination of Black identity.
RE-EDITION
PERFECT MAGAZINE
RE-EDITION
RE-EDITION
In order to realise this, however, she had to go back to Kingston, where the presiding culture projected images of white bodies and Eurocentric aspirations to its Black majority population.
RE-EDITION
NATAAL X FARFETCH
RE-EDITION
PERSONAL PROJECT
Amber’s images document the beauty of life in Jamaica with a rich definition of colour. The profound hues which make up Amber’s signature palette – specific blacks and blues as well as reds – are emblematic of the photographer’s birth country.
PERFECT MAGAZINE
PERFECT MAGAZINE
DAZED
i-D
i-D
DAZED
Her works are inspired by Caribbean culture, social commentary and socio political context.
DOCUMENT JOURNAL
DAZED
MARIAH
RE-EDITION
DAZED
They have appeared within the pages of Dazed, i-D, Document Journal, AnOther, Vanity Fair, and Love.
DAZED
i-D
YUHAN WANG
DOCUMENT JOURNAL
DOCUMENT JOURNAL
Amber has been featured in The New York Times Style Magazine’s list of ’15 Creative Women for Our Time’ and in the 2020 British Fashion Council’s New Wave: Creatives List. She was listed in the Dazed 100 rankings (2020) as well as i-D’s ‘Photographers to follow in 2020’ and ‘My Year in Photos’.
RE-EDITION
NETFLIX X BRIDGERTON
ANOTHER
DAZED
Her commercial clients include Miu Miu, Gucci, Nike, Fenty x University of Westminster and Ahluwalia Studio x Browns Fashion.
BROWNS FASHION – AHLUWALIA STUDIO
GUCCI
MIU MIU
KOFFEE X JORDAN
Amber is engaging on various personal works, including a collaborative photography project alongside the documentary film OUTDEH portraying the youth of Jamaica.
DIGITAL ARTWORK
YOUTH OF JAMAICA
JAMAICA – SOMEWHERE IN ST.MARY
JAMAICA – YAAD PAR SERIES
LOVE MAGAZINE
She was the recipient of a Reader’s Award in the “Fashion Editorial Women” category at THE AGENTS CLUB AWARDS ’21.
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[LALALAND ARTISTS NY]
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MARTA BEVACQUA [OPENSPACEPARIS]
MARTA BEVACQUA
[OPENSPACEPARIS]
MARIA
Marta Bevacqua was born in Rome in 1989. Passionate about photography since high school, she studied Fashion Photography at the Central Saint Martins School of Art in London.
MARIE
TERESA
ALEXIA
VOVK
Marta’s images are intriguing, fantastical and evocative; each one compelling the viewer to envision powerful stories. Each photograph is a discovery, and each one speaks of adventure and complexities just beneath the surface.
ANAR
THE VIOLET BOOK
TOM
CANCELLATO
FLAIR
SCHÖN!
“I consider myself not only a fashion photographer but most of all a story-teller. I want to tell my stories about beauty. I constantly feel the urge to create.”
ALICE PAGANI for MARIE-CLAIRE INTERNATIONAL
ELLE FANNING for GLAMOUR SPAIN
AALIHAH
PHILOSOPHY
ALEXA CHUNG for GLAMOUR SPAIN, COVER
CAP 74024
Marta sees nature and the world around her as her biggest source of influence on her work. She finds inspiration and gets influenced by nearly everything in nature.
MARIE-CLAIRE INTERNATIONAL
GLACIER
GABRIELLE
ANOTHER WORLD
JANE MAGAZINE
Based in Paris, Marta mainly collaborates with magazines such as Vogue Italia, Vogue Arabia, CAP74024, Marie-Claire Italia, The Violet Book, Schon! Magazine and Flair.
LEA
THE VIOLET BOOK
LES FEMMES PUBLIQUES
NADIA
BENJAMIN BIOLAY, “COMMENT EST TA PEINE ?” MUSIC VIDEO
Marta also works on artistic projects and directs videos for music artists such as Asaf Avidan, Ornella Vanoni, Benjamin Biolay and for brands including Dior.
WATER
ASAF AVIDAN,”SWEET BABYLON” MUSIC VIDEO
FRANCESCA FIORETTI, BOOK COVER
DIOR COUTURE SS20
POMME, “A PEU PRES” ALBUM COVER
Nominated many times for the International Photography Awards, after a collective exhibition in London (2009), then in Perugia (2012) and in Bruxelles (2015), she won the Px3 prize in 2015 in the beauty category.
VOGUE ITALIA
GLAMOUR SPAIN
GLAMOUR SPAIN
JONA
LOANA
LUDIVINE
In june 2019 NHP Publishing released Marta’s first book HER OUT THERE. The book is a collection of Marta’s work, exploring different beauties and providing a visual narrative for these women. Each woman has a story to tell. It’s not an ordinary story, it’s something about beauty, fantasy, dreams and imaginary stories, ready to be interpreted by the reader.
HER OUT THERE, NHP PUBLISHING, 2019
RAFAEL PAVAROTTI [ART+COMMERCE]
THE PERFECT MAGAZINE, WOW WOW WOW
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.
SYSTEM MAGAZINE
THE PERFECT MAGAZINE
At the age of sixteen, he left his remote hometown, committed to establishing a professional practice in the urban centers of fashion and media.
DAZED
SYSTEM MAGAZINE
VOGUE HOMMES
LILA MOSS FOR W MAGAZINE
i-D
Rafael 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.
i-D
BRITISH VOGUE
Rafael Pavarotti’s collaborations with British-Gambian fashion editor Ibrahim Kamara are among the most novel and celebrated visualizations of fashion in recent memory. The potency of their work — which advances the beautification and normalization of Black and indigenous bodies — has emerged amid sweeping calls for racial justice and the Covid-19 pandemic.
BRITISH VOGUE
THE NEW YORK TIMES STYLE
VOGUE HOMMES
i-D
Rafael Pavarotti is passionate about addressing the imbalance of Black representation in fashion and broader historical narratives.
VOGUE ITALIA
i-D
Expressing his ambition to help under-represented populations of today find equitable representation in the future, Rafael has said, “much of what I do today is for the next generations to come, and those who are not yet born.”
VOGUE HOMMES
SYSTEM MAGAZINE
His clients include Vogue Paris, Vogue Italia, British Vogue, Vogue Hommes, i-D, System Magazine, The Perfect Magazine and Dior.
DIOR SPRING 21
DIOR PRE-FALL 21
Rafael Pavarotti was the recipient of a Jury Award in the “Fashion Editorial Women” category at the ’21 edition of THE AGENTS CLUB AWARDS.
SYSTEM MAGAZINE, collaboration with IB KAMARA
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ART+COMMERCE
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Kell Mitchell [AMP]
HP
TOKYO
After graduating in Sydney with a Diploma in Photography, Kell Mitchell moved to London to assist some of the world’s most renowned fashion photographers.
ESSEX SUMMER
STREET KIDS
SAVANNAH
BONDI
Fascinated with all the new cultures and experiences she met during her work travels, she started to document life happening all around her.
SURFER’S PARADISE
WINTER’S SUN
SURFER’S PARADISE
SELF PORTRAIT
Kell’s beautifully simple and stylistic approach to storytelling celebrates the unique inner lives of all her characters and the alluring sense of beauty or mystery a photo can have that has something unexpected or slightly unexplained.
HUNTER MAGAZINE
COMMUTER
VELOCITY BLACK
ALLSAINTS
“I think I always strive to capture something at it’s ‘midway point’ – the scene is part of something that we question: what has led to this happening and what is going to happen next?”
HUNTER MAGAZINE
HUNTER MAGAZINE
HUNTER MAGAZINE
POLO RALPH LAUREN
Kell’s editorial clients include British Vogue, The Guardian, Hunger, Wonderland, Flaunt, Gaytimes, & Shortlist, and her commercial clients include Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren, Google, Emirates, Samsung, Nokia & HP.
TOMMY HILFIGER
CUBA
NOKIA
KANSAS CITY
Kell also works in oil painting and pastels. We can see these influences in her photographic imagery, her subjects often look like they have been painted with light.
BARBADOS
OSAKA HOTEL
LOCKDOWN
HUNTER MAGAZINE
Storytelling was always in her blood, and in recent years this has evolved successfully into moving image. In 2017 she was nominated for a British Arrows award for her film for Harvey Nichols – The 100 Year Old Woman, which documents the truly inspiring Bo Gilbert modeling for the pages of Vogue.
THE 100 YEAR OLD WOMAN
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NADINE IJEWERE [CLM]
TALLAWAH
Nadine Ijewere is a south-east London born photographer. Her work focuses primarily on the subjects of identity and diversity, informed by her own Nigerian / Jamaican background.
RÊVER
BRITISH VOGUE
I-D
NINA RICCI
MODERN WEEKLY STYLE
After studying photography at UAL’s London College of Fashion, she went straight into taking her own pictures, crediting social media with helping her to establish relationships with collaborators including stylist Ibrahim Kamara, casting models from Instagram, and enabling her to gradually build her reputation.
BURBERRY with IBRAHIM KAMARA
VOGUE US
VOGUE ITALIA
VOGUE US
GARAGE
Quickly gaining recognition for her refreshing and searching depictions of multiracial subjects, she has since been in great demand for her ability to create beautiful fashion images which, through their reflection of her own diverse heritage and community, have offered a sorely needed break from the clichés and compartmentalization characteristic of the industry.
MODERN WEEKLY STYLE
GARAGE
NINA RICCI
ROUGE FASHION BOOK
RIHANNA for ALLURE
Her January 2019 cover story with Dua Lipa, Binx Walton and Letitia Wright made Nadine Ijewere the first woman of colour to shoot the cover of any Vogue edition in the magazine’s 125-year history.
BRITISH VOGUE
BRITISH VOGUE
VOGUE US
ZARA BEAUTY
Nadine shoots regularly for numerous international publications such as i-D, Garage, WSJ Magazine, British Vogue and Vogue US. She has also worked with Dior, Gap, Hermes, Stella McCartney, Zara Beauty and Valentino Red, creating still and film campaigns.
i-D
ZARA BEAUTY
GARAGE
ZENDAYA & JOHN DAVID WASHINGTON for W
SELENA GOMEZ for VOGUE US
In 2016, Ijewere’s work was featured in The Tate Britain Generation exhibition and at Unseen Amsterdam and Lagos Photo Festival in 2017.
She was the recipient of the ICP Applied award in 2020. She was also awarded a Jury Award and a Readers’ Award at the AGENTS CLUB
AWARDS ’21.
Her new exhibition, BEAUTIFUL DISRUPTION, just opened and will be held until september 9 at C/O Berlin.
“I find beauty in all its facets. My work is about showcasing different forms of beauty that I believe our society could do a better job of representing. We are so different, and I think it is especially important to show this in the world of fashion. I follow this principle when I cast models and also by exploring my own origins and identity.”
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CLM
[CLM LONDON] [CLM NEW YORK]
ILYES GRIYEB [ROSE]
RETBA LAKE
Ilyes Griyeb is a self-taught photographer living between Paris and Meknès.
LAC RETBA
JACQUEMUS MEN SS20
LA VERITE POUR ADAMA
Using photography as both an art form and documentary device, his work straddles the worlds of documentary, fashion photography and the fine arts.
LAYLOW
NARCO POLO IN CASABLANCA
FARIS IN MEKNES
MOHAMED BOUROUISSA for FINANCIAL TIMES MAGAZINE
His poignant and intimate work is not only about creating beautiful images but also about spotlighting cultures and voices that have often been exploited by the white gaze.
M LE MONDE, LES GARDIENS DE LA TERRE
GREECE
M LE MONDE, CEINTURE ROUGE
END OF THE DAY AT AIT OUALLAL, MOROCCO
Ilyes Gryeb has a distinct style somewhere between realism, portrait and fashion photography, complete with a vibrant colour treatment.
LACOSTE
YOUTH IN MEKNES
PRESSURE FW20 WITH BETTINA PITTALUGA
WORKER AT AIT OUALLAL, MOROCCO
PRESSURE FW20 WITH BETTINA PITTALUGA
Ilyes’ work has been featured in publications including i-D, Anothermag, Vanity Fair, Numéro, M Le Monde and FT Weekend. He is also a co-founder of the collective NAAR.
MOROCCO, BOOK 2020
MOROCCO, his first photography book, was published in october 20. Shot over the span of six years, the resulting series is a moving portrait of rural life in a changing Morocco. With an uncompromisingly sincere gaze and unpretentious aesthetic, Ilyes Gryeb captures a reality existing outside of the global spotlight.
MOROCCO, BOOK 2020
PHOTOGRAPH SHORTLISTED FOR THE PALM PHOTO PRIZE 21
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Rose
[ROSE PARIS]
RUO BING LI [SAINT LUKE]
NUMERO BERLIN
Born in YunNan, China, Ruo Bing Li was a quiet and observant child who used art as a way of expressing his emotions and feelings.
TUSH
NUMERO BERLIN
TUSH
HOT HOT HOT
VOGUE PORTUGAL
With drawing, painting and other forms of creativity encompassing his childhood, Ruo Bing Li immigrated to Canada at the age of 16 and went on to study Art at university.
VOGUE PORTUGAL
MARIE CLAIRE CHINA
VOGUE CHINA
HARPER’S BAZAAR CHINA
NUMERO BERLIN
NUMERO BERLIN
It was during his studies that he began exploring further art forms and realised that his real passion and preferred medium was photography, which he went on to evolve with a Masters in Digital Photography at the School of Visual Arts, New York.
WONDERLAND
ONE
VOGUE PORTUGAL
VOGUE ME
HARPER’S BAZAAR
During his time at SVA, Ruo Bing Li began assisting photographers within the fashion industry before focussing on his own work in 2013.
ISSUE
TUSH
HARPER’S BAZAAR CHINA
HARPER’S BAZAAR CHINA
HARPER’S BAZAAR CHINA
BEAUTY PERSONAL
Having lived in New York since 2016, Ruo Bing Li creates delicate and diverse fashion and beauty images, capturing what he sees as beautiful and meaningful.
INFRINGE
VOGUE PORTUGAL
WWD
VOGUE PORTUGAL
T MAGAZINE
VOGUE PORTUGAL
Through a gentle and painterly lens, his attention to detail produces intimate shots which have been featured in magazines such as Vogue, T Magazine, & V. Commercial clients include Oscar De La Renta, Kate Spade, Surratt Beauty & Burt’s Bee’s.
VOGUE PORTUGAL
VOGUE PORTUGAL
BEAUTY PERSONAL 
HOT HOT HOT
HARPER’S BAZAAR
BEAUTY PERSONAL
Alongside stills photography, Ruo Bing Li is also a director and works on a wide range of moving image projects. He was distinguished this year with a Jury Award in the ‘Beauty Film Editorial Category’ at The Agents Club Awards ’21.
“To be born, to grow, to achieve. To be reborn, to multiply, rejuvenate. From the tiniest cell, hope is born” 
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Saint Luke
[SAINT LUKE NY] [SAINT LUKE LDN]
RACHEL LOUISE BROWN [WREN AGENCY]
THE LOBSTER GIRL from the Series SIMULATIONS
Rachel Louise Brown is a photographer, photo director & lecturer. She graduated from the the School of Visual Arts (NYC) followed by a MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art.
THE FARM SHED, THE MALEVOLENT EYE
THE MALEVOLENT EYE
THE MALEVOLENT EYE
THE MALEVOLENT EYE
APARTMENT 5, CLEARLAKE HOTEL
Rachel Louise Brown’s approach to photography is original and astonishing. Observing the world as a stage, Rachel’s practice starts to question construction of imagery around the themes of fear, gender, class and escapism.
I WANT TO BE JUST LIKE YOU
THE SWIMMING POOL, I WANT TO BE JUST LIKE YOU
THE CROCKET GAME,, I WANT TO BE JUST LIKE YOU
MARTY THE ALBINO ALLIGATOR, SIMULATIONS
T&I
THE BOARDING SCHOOL
She is fascinated by the way in which myth and expectation are woven into image making, pulling on references from mystery & film noir and creating work to further bring this into our reality.
WE ARE OBJECTS, DO NOT TOUCH
BUDDHIST NUNS, MYANMAR
CRICKET PRACTICE, MUMBAI
GREYHOUND HANDLERS, FLORIDA
REPRODUCTION
REPRODUCTION
Each scene has an eerie sense of familiarity, but through her heightened visual approach, we as viewers are pulled by this and are left with the understanding that not everything is quite as it seems.
THREE MEN STRETCHING, THE SELF AS THE OTHER
THE SMOKING ROOM,, THE SELF AS THE OTHER
RUNNING THROUGH THE FOREST, THE SELF AS THE OTHER
WINDOW ON SHIBUYA,, THE SELF AS THE OTHER
In her most recent project, Simulations, a four-year collaboration with Palm Beach Photographic Centre in Florida, Rachel constructed a series of work exploring the strange tension between reality & fantasy in the American hotspot known for its ‘Imagination Stations’.
MAR-A-LAGO, SIMULATIONS
THE KISSING BOOTH, SIMULATIONS
MOON BABY
THE MERMAID, SIMULATIONS
WASH RITE, SIMULATIONS
THE STRANGER, SIMULATIONS
Having travelled for residencies across Europe and the United States, Rachel’s work continues to be recognised with her most recent exhibition of Simulations at Somerset House as part of Photo London fair, and awards including Magenta Flash Forward, the PDN emerging artist & Fujifilm distinction awards.
THE GYMNASTS, SIMULATIONS
THE SWIMMING POOL CASTING
TRACY BRABIN, PART OF 209 WOMEN
PICK ME PLEASE
POSEIDON
Alongside her photographic practice, Rachel is the Photography Director of Harper’s Bazaar and Town & Country UK, an associate lecturer at Leeds Arts University & Huddersfield University and a mentor at University of the Arts, London.
THE MALE PIN UP CASTING
THE MALE PIN UP CASTING
THE HOUSEHOLD CAVALRY
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Wren Agency
[WREN AGENCY LONDON]
MISHA TAYLOR [CBA]
Born in South Africa and raised between Cape Town and Venice Beach, CA, Misha Taylor now lives and works between Paris and New York.
CAPE TOWN’S WATER CRISIS SERIES for MODERN WEEKLY CHINA
Having grown up on his father’s film sets, Misha’s work has a clear cinema-graphic eye, his story telling tells tales of his sun soaked youth while his subjects borrow from the many characters he has met and photographed on his constant travels.
HOLIDAYS INBOUND
KISUA CAMPAIGN
PRIMARY PAPER
VOGUE MAN NL
THEO IN CAPETOWN for MODERN WEEKLY STYLE
Misha’s aesthetic tends to walk the lines between fine art, fashion and lifestyle. While his clear sense of adventure and love for the obscure manifest throughout his use of color and shapes, his imagery creates a modern world worth telling.
THEO IN CAPETOWN for MODERN WEEKLY STYLE
UNDER THE INFLUENCE
HOW THE OCEAN CONNECTS US for MR PORTER
MATCHES FASHION
MARTE MEI’S ARTWORK for RIKA
His editorial work has been featured in Modern Weekly China, Vogue Germany, Vogue Netherlands, Vogue Russia, Vogue Mexico, W, WSJ., Zeit, Man About Town Mr Porter and Under the Influence Magazine.
MATCHES FASHION
WSJ.
VOGUE NL
PORT
VOGUE RUSSIA
His advertising clients include Nike, Calvin Klein, Esprit, Mango, Zara, Jordan Brand, Gap, Levi’s, and Interscope Records among others.
NIKE AIR FORCE
CALVIN KLEIN PERFORMANCE
NIKE GEAR UP
NIKE
NIKE PHANTOM
ZARA MEN’S SWIM
ZARA MEN SS21
“Everyday I wake up wanting to keep living, to keep watching all the serendipitous fortunes the world has to offer”.
NATURE’S VALLEY
VOGUE MEXICO
ESPRIT
VINCENT CASSEL for MR PORTER
“I see an absolutely binding bond between work and life. I feel like I am working even when I am walking through town or lying watching the rain.”
ZARA MEN’S SWIM
VOGUE MAN NL
GQ GERMANY
ZEIT
MAN ABOUT TOWN
Misha Taylor was awarded the ‘JURY AWARD ‘CELEBRITY CAMPAIGN MEN’ for his shot with Lebron James for Nike at THE AGENTS CLUB PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS ’21.
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CHRIS BOALS ARTISTS