Hailun Ma

Chinese, born 1992, based in Shanghai and New York · photographer

Vivid, colour-driven fashion and documentary photography exploring identity and belonging among Xinjiang’s ethnic minority communities. Ma’s images move fluidly between staged editorial and spontaneous street observation, blending fashion, family and cultural memory.

Website: instagram.com/hailunma

Nadav Kander

Israeli-British, born 1961, based in London · photographer

Cinematic, muted portraits and large-scale landscape work, best known for the Yangtze river series and stark editorial portraiture. Kander’s images share a quiet, subdued tension, whether he’s photographing world leaders or vast, altered stretches of land.

Website: nadavkander.com

Yuna Akabane

Japanese, based in Tokyo · painter and textile artist

Small, intimate paintings of everyday objects, flowers and domestic scenes rendered in a soft, illustrative hand. Akabane’s work turns ordinary moments, a shop counter, a vase, a handful of marigolds, into quiet meditations on memory and impermanence.

Website: akabaneyuna.com

Adrian Wong

Vancouver-born, raised in Hong Kong, image-based creative.

Adrian Wong examines the systems that shape how things are made visible, from packaging to infrastructure to the body itself. In his series “Carton,” he photographs eggs as a way to think about optimization and fragility, later tracing the theme back to his own origins as a child conceived through IVF.

Website: https://adrian-wong.net/