Introducing CULTURED’s 2025 Young Photographers Listing

Vanishingly few photographers on this checklist, who vary in age from 24 to 35, keep in mind life earlier than smartphones. But their publicity to an limitless stream of visible media has solely strengthened their skill to discern what makes {a photograph} work. To choose this yr’s class of Young Photographers, CULTURED requested high names within the pictures world to appoint one rising expertise and provide you with questions they’d like them to reply. In the pages that comply with, we introduce 12 rising image-makers via their reflections, pictures, and self-portraiture.

For generations, photographers have been motivated by the will to seize dispatches from a faraway land. But these Young Photographers experience staying nearer to house. Whether they’re working in a conventional darkroom fashion or experimenting with the newest A.I. instruments, they plumb their private histories for inspiration. Their work serves a twin goal: providing a window into their lives for audiences world wide—and a mirror during which their communities can see themselves.

Adali Schell, 24, Los Angeles

Ashley McLean, 29, New York

Camille Farrah Lenain,  35, New Orleans, New York

Charlie Denis, 31, Los Angeles

Chris Cook, 33, New York

Hannah Altman, 30, Boston

Hero Bean Stevenson, 29, New York

Iva Sidash, 30, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Jak Bannon,  26, Paris

Jasmine Clarke, 29, New Haven, Connecticut

Michael Wolever,  28, New York

Sara Messinger,  26, New York