About

K Young is a London-based artist and graduate of Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.

They were a winner of PhotoVogue Global Talent and LensCulture Summer Show, a finalist for the Aesthetica Art Prize and OD Photo Prize, and shortlisted for the Critical Mass Award.

Their work has appeared in leading publications including The New York Times, The Guardian US, and The British Journal of Photography and has been exhibited internationally.

Dressing Table with Frills

2023

Process

I use found printed imagery to interrupt familiar visual systems within photography. Through cutting, splicing, and recombining fragments, I unsettle established codes and narratives, allowing forms and meanings to shift.

The splice becomes a point of tension, asking where an image begins and ends; what belongs to the body, the setting, or the surface, and what is carried forward, lost, or newly made. These reconstructed images destabilise representation, bringing body and staging into relation.

Each collage is then rephotographed, returning the altered image to its original medium while preserving the mark of disruption. The resulting works hover between object and photograph, recognition and uncertainty.

Current Project Statement

Three Figures with Flowers & Red Shoes

2026

The Constructed Pose

Glamour imagery functions as a learned language of femininity. In The Constructed Pose, I rework archival photographs through collage and rephotography to examine how the female body is staged and read through this system.

By splicing either two or three source images into a single composition, the pose is interrupted, revealing it as a convention carried across time rather than a fixed form. Fragmentation disrupts its fluency and exposes its construction.

Once shaped by a desire-driven gaze, this imagery now circulates within expanded systems of looking, including human and machine forms of classification and control. These works occupy this shift, where established conventions of femininity meet new regimes of visibility, inviting a reconsideration of how photographs produce, regulate, and unsettle what we think we know.