Nadia Lee Cohen

United Kingdom 🌐 Various

Nadia Lee Cohen exists somewhere between fashion photography and surrealist cinema, and she's carved that space out entirely on her own terms. The British creative — photographer, director, artist — has built a visual world that's unmistakably hers: hyper-saturated, slightly unhinged, populated by characters who look like they escaped from a film that hasn't been made yet. Her photography has appeared in i-D, Vogue, and every other major title worth mentioning, and her music video work has brought the same fever-dream aesthetic to moving image. She's also explored her vision through short films and art installations, refusing to stay in any one lane long enough for the lane to define her. In an era when photographers are expected to also be directors who are also content creators who are also personalities, Cohen has managed to stay ahead of the moment by being too strange and too specific to be easily replicated. With 96 images in her library, she is the rare creative who's built a career by being completely, defiantly themselves.