Modern Trends in Artistic Photography for 2026

In this group of artists, intimacy, memory and abstraction intersect in various methods, however all share a sensitivity to the fleeting: the overlooked image, the half-remembered location, the unsteady boundary in between what we see and what we feel. Together, they form a peaceful however insistent meditation on how indicating builds up in ordinary life.

Taken together, rendered in her distinct painterly style, these retellings of easily-forgotten moments show how an ordinary life, when taken a look at from a particular viewpoint, starts 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 concern by breaking down, recontextualising and repeating images. Balancing methodical precision with a distinctly 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 give physical types to images that we generally see via a screen andquickly forget, such as stock photos and ReCAPTCHAs. To me, her distinctive language hazy, distorted, subtly disturbing reflects the alienation and dissociation fundamental in a world filled with imagery that appears to appear and vanish ever-more quickly. A shadow, a handstand, a sheer drape draped over a houseplant: by photographing such things, he offers them 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 connect numerous histories of material experimentation and production from around the globe within a special visual language. They situate the audience within landscapes that feel unlimited with a low mist hanging over the horizon. Unknown, these images are deeply tranquil, welcoming you to revel in the easy satisfaction of a perpetually 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 drape seem deliberately mysterious. They make me believe about the synchronised absurdity and beauty of the world in front of me, thinking about familiar scenes through an unfamiliar lens. Bianca MacCall Continuous 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 real time. The uncertain, unpredictable nature of his work is what makes me keep returning to it.Henry Ward Bethany III, 2023.