This year, House of Bandits is proud to be part of Photo London—an international celebration of photography and image-making. Located in the Discovery section of the fair, in Booth D9, you’ll find the works of our artists who stretch the possibilities of the medium.

Each piece on display offers a personal exploration of identity, memory, politics, and the shifting role of the image in art. Below, we introduce the brilliant Sarabande artists we're proud to present at the fair:

Rachel Fleminger Hudson is a photographer and filmmaker, who employs a multi-disciplinary approach to her practice spanning art direction, set design and costume. After graduating this year from Central Saint Martins, she won the international Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents 2022, exhibiting at the Luma Arles Foundation.

Drawing from both visual, material and academic research, she synthesizes the mediums of costume, still and moving image to study people and places. In her work she aims to understand  others through materialities, to explore identities in relation to garments and understand fantasy and reality as one and the same.

She does this through through costumes, which are staged and captured through photography and film, thus tracing histories and engaging with past through the intimacy of skin to skin contact with historical garments. With particular interest in 1970s societal tensions, Subcultural Identity, performativity, “high” and “low” culture, feminism, masculinities and consumer culture, she aims to reconfigure the past in the context of the present.

Kasia's work investigates the tangibility of the photograph and how we view photographs today. Using predominantly the wet plate collodion technique, she interrogates ‘truth’ in photography and questions how we experience the time present and time past. 

"It was a very conscious decision to start working with wet plate because it allows me to discard the idea of time"

Wozniak employs analogue techniques to stretch and distort the experience of time. Working primarily with medium format while using long exposures, laborious darkroom experimentations and manipulations she explores the idea of approximation, moving away from veracity to something more liminal. Each anomaly is present and exposed on the surface of the created photograph. 

Paloma is a visual artist who explores themes around hereditary, identity and life cycles. Born in Spain, where she graduated from BA (Hons) Fine Arts at Complutense University in Madrid. Following that, she graduated from MA Photography at London College of Communication, where she won a mentorship award with her graduation project Inside Out.

Her work has been in Group exhibitions, including Political Bodies at Galleria Cavour, Italy 2019, Live Flesh - International Women’s Day curated by Charlotte Jansen 2020, A Picture of Health at Arnolfini Arts Centre in Bristol 2021, Body Language at Messums Gallery curated by Katy Barron 2022, and most recently at Headstrong: Women and Empowerment at the new Centre for British Photography 2023 and Writing her own scrip at PhotoLondon 2023.

Shirin Fathi is a multi-disciplinary artist and curator. A graduate of the Goldsmiths MFA Curating course, her own practice focuses on cultural changes in relation to gender identity. Through role-play and the use of cosmetics, masks, and prosthetics, she uses her body as a subject to stage ambiguous and often marginalized identities.

Building upon her recent project focusing on gender representation in the history of cultural exchange between Europe and Iran in 19th century Qajar paintings, her current project examines gender representation in relation to the contemporary culture and beauty ideals imposed on Iranian women through cosmetic surgery. This project was developed during her residency at Sarabande Foundation and allowed her to work in an interdisciplinary way working with photography, sculpture-installation and performance expanding her artistic practice.

Michelle Marshall is a French photographer based in London. Her practice revolves around portraiture with assignments ranging from commercial contracts, fashion editorials to private commissions and self-initiated/personal projects.

She is driven by the self-reflecting process afforded by interacting with others through photography. Marshall is inquisitive, using the camera to engage in creative shared experiences widening her perspective of the world she navigates. 

Her work evokes conversations and questions about themes of human connection, perception and identity either as a reflective exercise or a commentary on topical socio-political debates. Marshall is interested in the exploration of societal stereotypes, cultural precepts and how those inform perceptions of ourselves and others. As a practitioner, she is keen to contribute to shaping a visual vocabulary that evokes an emotional response and arouses curiosity.

Giulia Grillo aka Petite Doll is a surrealist artistliving in London, practising across photography, video and digital art. Her work focuses on the fusion of self-portraiture and surrealism, exploring photography in a contemporary context. She turns familiar situations into extraordinary visual narratives by blending the beautiful with the disturbing. Through the art of self-portrait, she morphs into different characters, giving a glimpse into her own imagination, dreams, and unconscious mind. Her creative process revolves around meticulous attention to detail, using real, tangible objects in the careful construction of her scenes. She handcrafts her own sets and often collaborates with artists and sculptors all around the world. Her work has been exhibited across Europe and US and featured in renowned publications including Aesthetica Magazine, MOCO Museum, Royal Photographic Society. She is the 1st PrizeWinner of the 2023 INPRINT Photography Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize.

Hannah Norton is a documentary portrait photographer, she works with individuals and grassroot community organisations that have been under and/or misrepresented in the mainstream media. Through long term engagement and collaborative processes, she finds visual language that disrupts stereotypes and informs new ways of thinking. Norton also works editorially for arts and culture magazines taking portraits of artists, actors, and musicians.

Since recently graduating from her Masters degree in Documentary Photography at the London College of Communication she has won the British Journal of Photography's Portrait of Britain every year, won LensCulture’s critic choice award, exhibited at The Royal Photographic Society and as part of Palm Photo Prize, regularly interviewed and featured by The British Journal of Photography and had her work published on multiple occasions by Hoxton Mini Press.

Her clients include The Financial Times, BBC and Saatchi & Saatchi amongst others.

Educated in fashion design, Daisy started to make squishy wearable sculptures (also known as flesh suits) after graduation. They sit in a delightfully awkward space between fashion, performance and sculpture.

Seeking to joyfully represent the human form in a bodily and fantastical way. They celebrate flesh, form and movement. Instead of sculpting with stone or marble, sculpting with fabric is more tactile, more life-like. Fabric is soft, warm and will not last forever, just like people. 

Almudena Romero is a British and Spanish visual artist based in London. Her practice uses photography  to explore ways of representing, seeing and understanding. Romero’s works focus on how perception affects existence and how art shapes perception.

Romero’s practice has been exhibited at international public institutions including the Victoria and Albert Museum, National Portrait Gallery, TATE Modern-TATE Exchange, The Photographers’ Gallery, Tsinghua Art Museum, Le Cent- Quatre Paris, University of the Arts London and international photography festivals such as Unseen Amsterdam, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Belfast Photo Festival and Brighton Photo Biennale.

Don’t miss the chance to experience the powerful work of our incredible artist at Sarabande’s booth at Photo London this year — Get your tickets now!