Five new documentary photographers to follow this month

Kamil Śleszyński

Former postman and self-taught photographer Kamil Śleszyński uses his lens to capture complex relationships between people. His recent project Wolka is a series of empathetic portraits taken at a Polish detention centre.

Sebastian Barros

Another self taught artist, Sebastian Barros is based in London. His mega-series Lagos comprises of multiple collections of photographs taken in the Nigerian capital. From the 21 million strong population Barros has plucked images of workers, gangsters, hawkers and musicians for a compelling portrait of one of the world’s most vivid cities.

George Nebieridze

Berlin holds worldwide notoriety for its youth culture. As Europe’s most infamous nightlife outpost and a centre of progressive philosophies, the city is renowned as a hub of artistic energy. No one has better captured its populace than George Nebieridze whose portraits and atmospheric abstracts describe the city in captivating, emotive detail.

Megan Christiansen

Megan Christensen’s photobook Bad Boy is a whirlwind ride through the artist’s three years living in New York City, told – predominantly – through a series of portraits of the men who have appeared in her life. Collectively the images describe a profound narrative that extends far beyond fleeting hook ups.

Devin Allen

Devin Allen’s photographs of the 2015 protests that were organised in the wake of the police killing of Freddie Gray document just one part of life in Baltimore. In his first monograph A Beautiful Ghetto, published last year, Allen disrupts conventional, lazy narratives about inner city life in the United States. He replaces those narratives with a complex and deeply moving portrait of a community.