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Tim Simmons

'Tim Simmons has been experimenting with illuminating the night for twenty years. Simmons’ work places the viewer on the edge of reality, by forcing the viewer to question or simply wonder at the scene before him. Simmons intervenes with the landscape and the pattern of nature by carefully introducing artificial lighting, thus creating his own photographic illusions which sometimes complement the ambient light, but more often deliberately subvert and disturb any sense of visual or organic harmony.' (Jesse Alexander, Falter magazine) Tim Simmons is based in Norfolk, England, but his landscapes are distinctly other-worldly. See more at timsimmons.co.uk

Maria Datsykova

Maria Datsykova is based in Bordeaux, and takes dreamy photographs that make us think they should be little French art movies. See more at mariadatsykova.com

Tom Bland

London-based Tom Bland has an eye for the 'weird and wonderful', as he puts it, but his best photographs are also clever and understated. We recommend spending some time on Tom's website, which is a treasure trove of witty images and beautful landscapes: tombland.co.uk

Elise Boularan

Paris-based art photographer Elise Boularan describes her aesthetic as 'loaded with elipses and silences'. Her commissioned work is with like-minded poetic souls (Suzanne Vega, Laura Marling) and her personal vision is delicately intense. See more at eliseboularan.com

Kati Mennett

Massachusetts-based Kati describes herself as a part-time ''creative writer and collager''. Such sweet, homely pursuits do seem to inform her work, but don't be fooled: her eye is clear, unflinching, and utterly unsentimental. See more at katimennett.com

Rebecca Cairns

Currently based in Toronto, Canada, Rebecca is enrolled in her second and final year of the Creative Photography program at Humber College. As she puts it, her images are ''reminiscent of dreams – unclear, distorted and fictional – meant to portray the fact that throughout our everyday lives we are only passing figures through an infinite amount of space and time -- impermanent and always fleeing.'' See more of her beautiful and haunting photography at rebeccacairns.com

Spencer Murphy

We don't really get the point of LinkedIn, but recently we were approached by UK photographer Spencer Murphy, who we might not otherwise have come across and whose photography we love so much that it makes sense of any number of random emails from make-up artists in New Zealand. Spencer's pictures are completely restarained and at the same time completely rivetting. See what we mean at spencermurphy.co.uk

Mary Furlong

Mary Furlong was born in Dublin, Ireland, and ''lives in the Wexford countryside with her handsome man, cat, dogs and chickens''. She spent her preschool days playing in her mother’s toyshop: grew up in the world of fashion design, and worked as Perry Ogden’s photo assistant and studio manager for ten years. All of this has influenced her photography, which is a combination of the playful and the sophisticated – ''charming'' can come across as patronising, but in this case we are charmed. See the work at missmaryfurlong.com

Kirk Ellingham

He says: 'My ongoing strategy in dealing with the world and its problems is to use the photograph as my tool. With my work I am dealing with transient and often surreal aspects of the human condition. As time passes I am continuously and often desperately trying to fathom the hard facts of life (love, despair, anxieties and hopes) through these small stories, both intimate and distant, both foreign and here, upon my own doorstep.'

We say: Based in Poland and England, Kirk Ellingham's gentle but penetrating eye finds beauty in scenes of domestic desolation. See more at kellingham.viewbook.com

Jenny Wicks

The Evening Standard (London) says: 'Jenny Wicks's fascination with the unexpected appearance of two ginger-nuts in her brother's family led to this magnetic, sometimes eerie collection of portraits of babies, children and adults possessing the mysterious ginger gene. Walking among these portraits has the air of a scientific sampling, like a Victorian survey. And in some ways it is; Wicks's fascination is as much with the journey of the ginger gene as with photography as art, and that element is just as striking as the work's value as an exquisite portrait collection.'

We say: Glasgow-based photographer Jenny Wicks takes traditionally soft and intimate subjects (children, the family) and filters them through a sharp, modern, and often very witty lens. See more at jennywicksphotography.co.uk

Aaron Joel Santos

He says: 'Some Girls straddles the line between fantasy and reality and aims to explore the lifestyles of the transgendered community in Thailand, from the city lives of young women in Bangkok to the sex workers and cabaret stars of Pattaya and beyond. In the real world, some girls are born boys. The dream is to escape or transcend that body, to flourish and transform into a more beautiful and more feminine being. Oftentimes these worlds merge in wonderful and weird ways. Life becomes a stage where the myths and stereotypes of gender are all played out'.

We say: Aaron Joel is originally fromNew Orleans and is currently based in Hanoi, Vietnam. See the whole series of images from Some Girls plus more at aaronjoelsantos.com

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