New Movements in Artistic Photography for 2026

In this group of artists, intimacy, memory and abstraction converge in different ways, but all share a level of sensitivity to the short lived: the neglected image, the half-remembered location, the unsteady limit between what we see and what we feel. Together, they form a quiet however insistent meditation on how indicating builds up in regular life.

Taken together, rendered in her unique painterly design, these retellings of easily-forgotten minutes show how a normal life, when analyzed from a particular viewpoint, starts to radiate a palpable sense of significance.Rosemary Burn Bowl of cherries, 2025 Mona Sultan's photocollages describe the fragmentary nature of memory and meaning, calling photographic fact into question by breaking down, recontextualising and duplicating images. Balancing systematic precision with a clearly human, necessarily imperfect visual sensibility, his paintings are easy going abstractions for the digital age.Luke Rudolf Fizzog 4, 2025 Jo Berry's airbrushed paintings provide physical kinds to images that we typically see by means of a screen andquickly forget, such as stock pictures and ReCAPTCHAs. To me, her distinctive language hazy, distorted, discreetly upsetting reflects the alienation and dissociation inherent in a world filled with images that seems to appear and disappear ever-more quickly. A shadow, a handstand, a large drape draped over a houseplant: by photographing such things, he provides a second life in which they end up being irreversible. Emile Kees Handstand, 2023 Jo Hummel's minimalist abstractions have a particular ahistorical quality; they link numerous histories of material experimentation and production from around the world within a special visual language. They locate the viewer within landscapes that feel endless with a low mist hanging over the horizon. Unfamiliar, these images are deeply peaceful, inviting you to revel in the simple enjoyments of a constantly twilit, pastoral world.Llus-Carles Peric Cap a La Calma, 2014 The scenes that Bianca MacCall paints a train window reflecting the carriage's interior over the passing landscape; a barely-visible cars and truck concealed by an ochre-yellow curtain appear intentionally strange. They make me think about the simultaneous absurdity and appeal of the world in front of me, considering familiar scenes through an unfamiliar lens. Bianca MacCall Perpetual Motion, 2023 Henry Ward's painting practice is ever-shifting. If you stand in front of one of his paintings for long enough, you may see it change in genuine time. The uncertain, unpredictable nature of his work is what makes me keep returning to it.Henry Ward Bethany III, 2023.