In 2021, Fashion imagery exists on Instagram. Not on gallery walls or in thick, hardbound photo books or consumed through glossy fashion magazines but sandwiched between brightly coloured affirmation posts, photo dumps by acquaintances and models off-duty. Oversaturated is an understatement in describing our relationship with image and video, but that doesn’t make the work being produced any less relevant.

This golden age exists in the work of Kshtij Kankaria, who borrows from his own experience growing up in a small town in India. It exists in Nadine Ijewere’s photographs that explore her Jamaican-Nigerian heritage. It exists in Ib Kamara’s artistic vision that reimagines 16th-century art. This golden age isn’t defined by a singular view of glamour and luxury; it contains multitudes.

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