New Movements in Artistic Photography for 2026

In this group of artists, intimacy, memory and abstraction converge in different ways, however all share a sensitivity to the short lived: the neglected image, the half-remembered location, the unstable boundary between what we see and what we feel. Together, they form a quiet however insistent meditation on how meaning collects in normal life.

Taken together, rendered in her distinctive painterly style, these retellings of easily-forgotten minutes show how an ordinary life, when examined from a specific point of view, begins to radiate a palpable sense of significance.Rosemary Burn Bowl of cherries, 2025 Mona Sultan's photocollages explain the fragmentary nature of memory and significance, calling photographic fact into question by breaking down, recontextualising and repeating images. Stabilizing organized precision with a definitely human, always imperfect visual perceptiveness, his paintings are easy going abstractions for the digital age.Luke Rudolf Fizzog 4, 2025 Jo Berry's airbrushed paintings provide physical forms to images that we generally see by means of a screen andquickly forget, such as stock photos and ReCAPTCHAs. To me, her distinct language hazy, distorted, discreetly disturbing shows the alienation and dissociation intrinsic in a world filled with imagery that seems to appear and vanish ever-more quickly. A shadow, a handstand, a large curtain draped over a houseplant: by photographing such things, he offers them a second life in which they become long-term. Emile Kees Handstand, 2023 Jo Hummel's minimalist abstractions have a certain ahistorical quality; they link numerous histories of material experimentation and production from worldwide within an unique visual language. They locate the viewer within landscapes that feel unlimited with a low mist hanging over the horizon. Though unknown, these images are deeply tranquil, welcoming you to delight in the easy 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 automobile hidden by an ochre-yellow curtain appear intentionally mystical. They make me believe about the synchronised absurdity and appeal of the world in front of me, thinking about 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 might see it alter in genuine time. The unclear, unpredictable nature of his work is what makes me keep returning to it.Henry Ward Bethany III, 2023.