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A question, a gust, and a boat: New talent enters the scene

No flash, no studio. Here’s how three Capture One RAW Talent winners made their work and shared something true to themselves.   Three winning projects. One is a set of portraits built around a single uncomfortable question. One is about the draft of air that moves through a subway passage. One is about people who live on boats.   On paper they share nothing. In practice, none of the three used a flash. All three found their subject somewhere they had already walked past a hundred times. And two of them came out of the London Underground.   We asked each of them how the work happened.   Jenny Liao: Probe Jenny Liao was an oral surgeon before leaving the profession to study photography at the University of the Arts London. Now based in China, she built Probe around a question she had wanted to ask other people for years, having once struggled to answer it herself.   “Is there a trait that has often been discouraged or undervalued throughout your life, but that you still choose to keep?”   Every …

Speaking with our RAW Talent Award winners

Recently, we had the chance to attend the postgraduate photography show at the London College of Communication (LCC), where we had the pleasure of seeing the work of many talented creatives. Among some inspiring projects, the work of three photographers stood out to us, not just for their technical skills, but also for their depth and originality in their visual storytelling.  Their work touches upon themes of connection, time, and memory, with each artist approaching their projects with a distinct voice. In this three-part feature, we sit down with our 2025 RAW Talent Award winners, Maggie Meijun, Zhenghan Huang, and Angus Stewart, to learn about the stories behind their projects, creative processes, and inspirations.   Maggie Meijun on emotional honesty and her Real Isn’t II project  Maggie is a London-based artist who, through photography, explores emotional realism, connection, and alienation, in a world that she finds ‘fast, fragile, and often a little unreal’. She mainly works with medium-format and plays with natural light, as she slowly builds her visual language rooted in color, emotion, and movement.  Her …

Unmasking the stigma of autism spectrum disorder

We recently attended the postgraduate photography show at LCC to present our RAW Talent Award to three creatives. During the event, we met Benjimen Green and presented him with one of the awards. His photography mainly focuses on people, telling stories that are often overlooked. He believes everyone has a unique story to tell, even if it is not the most prominent one in the room. With his project, he shared his personal story of being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Benjimen’s portrayal of masks in his images aims to break mainstream autism stereotypes and encourages individuals to embrace their unique identities without fear or shame. How did you first get into photography? In my early years, I stumbled upon my dad’s hidden film camera, which I wasn’t supposed to play with. Spending hours absorbed in its dials and buttons, I found it the coolest thing. However, my serious plunge into photography only happened later. In 2018, I purchased a small Fujifilm camera before relocating to Southeast Asia for work. Initially, it was about …

An intimate portrait of my grandmother

Recently, we had the chance to join the photography postgraduate show at the London College of Communication (LCC). On the hunt to award three creatives with our RAW Talent Award, we were blown away by An Liu, whose project was inspired by her grandma’s life experiences at 87 years old. We got the chance to talk more with An – like how she approached capturing intimate moments of her elderly family members, developing her dreamy storytelling style, to how LCC helped her grow as a photographer and combine empathy with artistry. How did you first get into photography?  Because I majored in computer science during my undergraduate studies, I didn’t have formal and systematic training in photography before coming to LCC. Aside from using a camera to document life during my teenage years, my first proper encounter with photography was during a university student union event. I needed to capture a series of photos showcasing the daily work life of an award-winning teacher. Since then, I have fallen in love with the storytelling aspect of …