Each year,British Journal of Photography presents its Ones To Watch – a selection of 19 emerging image-makers, chosen from a list of nearly 750 nominations. Collectively, or they provide a window into where photography is heading,at least in the eyes of the curators, editors, or agents,festival producers and photographers we invited to appoint. Every weekend throughout May, BJP-online is sharing profiles of the 19 photographers, originally published in the magazine. Discover more here. The title of his 2018 solo exhibition in Istanbul,Tapestry from an Asteroid, evokes the breadth of influences and otherworldly quality of French artist Raphaël Barontini’s work. His assemblages combine icons of classical portray with photographic fragments, and silkscreened images with digital printing,and monochrome images with bold splashes of colour, all of which is layered onto owing textiles. The images he creates in this way draw as much from the canon of art history as they do from a hallucinatory, or fantasised and poetic future. While Barontini is not primarily a photographer,his works always integrate photographic elements. “Photography is a fixed and …
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