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PHF Awards for Artists, United Kingdom.
Nwando Ebizie, composer. Photographed at in her home garden in Yorkshire.
This week I packed my camera and lighting gear into my car and hit the UK’s highways to create a series of portraits and video interviews celebrating this year’s ten recipients of the prestigious Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Awards for Artists.
It’s my 11th year photographing the awards recipients and I’ll be travelling across the nation during October visiting all five composers and five visual artists in their creative spaces or locations that hold personal significance. My goal is to capture the essence of each individual rather than focusing on a specific body of their work. I look forward to this commission each autumn, as it’s a fantastic opportunity to collaborate with such a diverse range of creative minds.
The identities of this 2026’s recipients are closely guarded secrets and the big public reveal will be at the awards’s evening in Somerset House on November 4th. In the meantime, I’m sharing some highlights from my work with 2025’s recipients. If you’d like to view more from my awards archive, please visit my Creative Forces gallery page.
Visual Artists 2025 award recipients: Maeve Brennan, Alex Hartley, Edwin Mingard, Karla Black and Ima-Abasi Okon.
Composers 2025 award recipients: Nwando Ebizie, Hanna Tuulikki, Alex Neilson, Angeline Morrison, and Maggie Nicols.
Hanna Tuulikki, composer. Photographed in her Glasgow studio.Alex Hartley, visual artist. Photographed in his Devon studio.Edwin Mingard, visual artist. Photographed on the roof of his Hackney studio in London.Alex Neilsen, composer. Photographed in his Scottish hideaway.Maeve Brennan, visual artist. Photographed in Somerset House.Angeline Morrison, composer. Photographed on the site of any old tin mine entrance in Cornwall.
Alex Hartley, visual artist. Photographed in his Devon studio.Karla Black, visual artist. Photographed in her Glasgow home.
Hanna Tuulikki, composer. Photographed in her Glasgow studio.
Maggie Nichols, composer. Photographed in her home in London. Alex Neilsen, composer. Photographed in his Scottish hideaway.Nwando Ebizie, composer. Photographed in her home recording studio in Yorkshire.Maeve Brennan, visual artist. Photographed in Somerset House.Ima-Abasi Okon, visual artist. Photographed near her home in Amsterdam, Holland.Edwin Mingard, visual artist. Photographed on the roof of his Hackney studio in London.Angeline Morrison, composer. Photographed on a Cornish tor.Ima-Abasi Okon, visual artist. Photographed near her home in Amsterdam, Holland.Maggie Nichols, composer. Photographed in her home in London. Karla Black, visual artist. Photographed in her Glasgow home.Alex Neilsen, composer. Photographed in his Scottish hideaway.Awards for Artists 2025 recipients. Back row L‑R: Hanna Tuulikki, Alex Neilson, Edwin Mingard, Maeve Brennan, Alex Hartley, Nwando Ebizie, Karla Black. Front L‑R: Angeline Morrison, Maggie Nicols. (Ima-Abasi Okon not present).All photographs by Emile Holba.
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