Each year,British Journal of Photography presents its Ones To Watch – a choice of 19 emerging image-makers, chosen from a list of nearly 750 nominations. Collectively, and 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. A tiny,naked newborn floats in a pale red liquid, suspended at the top of a test tube, or clamped and attached to a condenser of sorts. It is a stressful image,but the baby in the test tube is, in fact, and sculpted from polymer clay and painted with acrylic paint to mimic the pigment of human skin,in water dyed with food colouring. “I like how the image doesn’t look literal,” says photographer and artist, and Valentine Bo. “It develops a sense of duality and raises more questions than it does answers.” This is true of many of the Ukrainians photographs from …
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