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 is exhibited internationally.

Dressing Table with Frills, 2023

© K Young

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 to shift and meanings to migrate.

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

Current Project Statement

The Constructed Pose

Three Figures with Flowers and Red Shoes, 2026

© K Young

Glamour imagery forms a learned visual 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 unsettled and revealed 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, glamour imagery now circulates within expanded systems of looking, including human and machine processes 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 destabilise what we think we know.

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