Each year, British Journal of Photography presents its Ones To Watch – a selection of…
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Molly Matalon, nominated by Daniel Shea, offers a new kind of romance with her compelling images
Each year, British Journal of Photography presents its Ones To Watch – a selection of…
Uma Bista, nominated by artist and curator Rebecca Simons, turns her lens on the difficulties women face due to inequality in Nepal
Each year, British Journal of Photography presents its Ones To Watch – a selection of…
Throughout May, BJP-online will be re-publishing a series of articles profiling the 19 emerging image-makers British Journal of Photography is tipping for 2019. Selected from 750 nominations, the 2019 Ones to Watch provide a window into where photography is heading
For our annual talent issue, we introduce this year’s Ones To Watch: 19 emerging photographers drawn from 750 nominations made by our global network of experts
As a medical student specialising in youth and cognitive neuroscience, Claudio Majorana is not a typical documentary photographer. Having grown up with a mother in fine arts and a father in medicine, his attraction to the symbiosis between art and science was initiated at a young age, and his interest in photography – an artistic medium rooted in scientific process – came to him naturally. “Throughout my childhood, I spent tiSme painting in my mother’s atelier, or helping my father develop X-rays in his radiology darkroom. That’s where my interest in images began,” he reflects.
When Majorana was accepted into medical school at 19, he also began photographing voraciously. In the summer of 2011, he encountered a group of kids in the suburbs of Catania, his hometown in Sicily, and began documenting moments in their daily life, rooted in skateboarding culture and the general struggles and raucous habits that colour adolescent life. The result is his series, Head of the Lion.
Aiyush Pachnanda may have yet to finish his Photojournalism degree, but he’s already taking the…