BY Elliott Jerome Brown Jr., Koral Carballo, Marcel Pardo Ariza, Paul Niedermayer AND Cameron Ugbodu in Features | 28 APR 22

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Issue 227

Five Emerging Photographers to Watch

frieze contributors and editors nominate a young photographer whose work excites and intrigues them

BY Elliott Jerome Brown Jr., Koral Carballo, Marcel Pardo Ariza, Paul Niedermayer AND Cameron Ugbodu in Features | 28 APR 22

This selection, first published as part of our special series titled ‘Photography Now’, demonstrates the breadth of ways young artists use the medium to abstract the figure, explore notions of gender and selfhood, find the extraordinary in the everyday and articulate complex interpersonal dynamics.

Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.

Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. uses photography and sculpture to visualize intimacy, communion and self-possession.

^{Selected by Terence Trouillot, senior editor of frieze.}

Elliott Jerome Brown Jr., What was it you said about mirrors? Wonderful and overcome? Passive, dumbfounded? I can’t remember, but I know I won’t have the opportunity to hold yours again, 2020, UV-laminated archival inkjet print, 81 × 101 cm. All images courtesy: the artist and Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York

Elliott Jerome Brown Jr., Knotted in communion, three times over and without boundary, 2020, UV-laminated archival inkjet print, 52 × 99 cm

Elliott Jerome Brown Jr., 2021, UV-laminated archival inkjet print, 101 × 76 cm

Koral Carballo

Koral Carballo’s ‘We Were Always Here’ works against the erasure of people of Afro descent in contemporary Mexico.

^{Selected by Graciela Iturbide, featured artist.}

Koral Carballo, Prologue: Mystery of Disguise, from the series ‘We Were Always Here’, 2020–ongoing, print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, 120 × 80 cm. All images courtesy: the artist

Koral Carballo, Chapter II ‘Resistance’, from the series ‘We Were Always Here’, 2020–ongoing, print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, 60 × 40 cm

Koral Carballo, Chapter III ‘New Generation’, from the series ‘We Were Always Here’, 2020–ongoing, print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, 80 × 60 cm

Marcel Pardo Ariza

Marcel Pardo Ariza is a trans visual artist and curator who explores the relationship between representation, kinship and queerness through constructed photographs, colour sets and installations

^{Selected by Sean Burns, assistant editor of frieze.}

Marcel Pardo Ariza, Fiera & Marcel encarnándose (Fiera & Marcel Incarnate), 2021, 91 × 76 cm. Courtesy: the artist

Marcel Pardo Ariza, Matti & Alex, 2021, 58 × 41 cm. Courtesy: the artist

Marcel Pardo Ariza, Kin Skin I, 2019, 46 × 61 cm. Courtesy: the artist

Paul Niedermayer

Paul Niedermayer’s atmospheric traffic lights look at the relationship between the individual and society.

^{Selected by Julian Irlinger, featured artist.}

Paul Niedermayer, Ampeln auf Augenhöhe (Traffic Lights at Eye Level), 2021, archival pigment print, 90 × 60 cm. All images courtesy: the artist

Paul Niedermayer, Ampeln auf Augenhöhe – Pending (Traffic Lights at Eye Level – Pending). 2021, archival pigment print, 90 × 60 cm

Cameron Ugbodu

Cameron Ugbodu uses photography and film, alongside his curatorial practice, to visualize Black queer masculinity.

^{Selected by Vanessa Peterson, associate editor of frieze.}

Cameron Ugbodu, Untitled Body Studies, 2022, print on cotton fabric stretched on a pallet, 1 × 1 m. All images courtesy: the artist

Cameron Ugbodu, Jugu, 2022, print on paper fixed on canvas, tape and paint, 1.7 × 1.3 m.

Cameron Ugbodu, Meyron - New Monuments, 2022, print fixed on wood, tape paint and varnish, 92 × 78 cm.

This article first appeared in frieze issue 227 with the headline ‘Five photographers to watch’, as part of a special series titled ‘Photography Now’.

^{Main image: Koral Carballo, Chapter II ‘Resistance’, from the series ‘We Were Always Here’, 2020–ongoing, print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, 60 × 40 cm. Courtesy: the artist}

ELLIOTT JEROME BROWN JR.

Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. is a queer Black American artist and photographer. In 2019, they received an Emerging Visual Arts Grant from The Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York. They show with Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in New York.

KORAL CARBALLO

Koral Carballo works at the intersection of art and journalism. She was a CatchLight Leadership Fellow and second place winner of the POY LATAM ‘Nuestra Mirada’ Award in 2021, a recipient of a Women Photograph and Getty Images Grant in 2019 and an Open Society Foundations Moving Walls Fellow in 2018.

MARCEL PARDO ARIZA

Marcel Pardo Ariza is a trans artist and photographer. They are the recipient of the 2020 San Francisco Artadia Award and their work was recently featured in the group exhibition ‘Image Gardeners’ at McEvoy Foundation, San Francisco, USA.

PAUL NIEDERMAYER

Paul Niedermayer is an artist. Her work has recently been shown at Galerie Heit in Berlin and at ÆdT - Am Ende des Tages, Düsseldorf. In summer 2021 she hosted a queer bar in the garden of M.1 in Hohenlockstedt. She will open her first solo show in Berlin at the end of May at Sangt Hipolyt.

CAMERON UGBODU

Cameron Ugbodu is a Nigerian-Austrian artist and member of the Black Photographers Network, a UK-based group of contemporary Black practitioners.