For photographer Sophie Green, she not only wants to represent her subjects as honestly as possible, but the image itself needs to be just as sincere. “I continually strive to keep my images as a representation of what I see through the viewfinder,” she explains. “I avoid retouching and just subtly balance the colour and exposure… If a frame isn’t interesting enough straight out of camera and you need to put a load of Photoshop layers on an image to make it interesting, then it’s not good enough.” This need for purity is evident throughout the London-based photographer’s body of work, whether it’s stock car racing, horse fairs, or portraits of her namesakes, Sophie’s style is honest, raw and intimate.
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Up close with the young acrobats of Namsa Leuba’s West African roots
Half-Guinean, half-Swiss photographer Namsa Leuba is a champion of African visual culture. She channels the contrasts of her African-European roots by looking at tribal identity through a Western lens, and for her series Ya Kala Ben – meaning “crossed look” – Namsa draws on the overlapping cultures of her upbringing and explores the rituals and customs of her mother’s native Guinea. Her striking images have been exhibited alongside Martin Parr and Viviane Sassen, and these portraits of local Guinean acrobats who perform at different ceremonies in Conakry are part of the new group show at Tiwani Contemporary, the London gallery that was one our favourites at the debut edition of Photo London last week.
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