Made From Home
Made From Home, an exhibition we hosted at Photofusion showcasing nine emerging photographers: Jannell Adufo, Charles Mensah, M Camila Bañol Montoya & Lizbeth E Peña Pilla, Atlanta Downes, Sage, Esraa Mohammed, Henos Adhanom and Erin Hambly.
Developed in partnership with agency Mini Title and Photofusion’s youth mentoring programme, The Creators’ Studio, the project supported young London artists to tell imaginative stories of youth culture.
Through stills and motion, fashion and documentary, the work explored music as a force that shapes memory, identity and community—whether in bedrooms, dancefloors, churches, street parties or on our phones. Subjects ranged from Muslim Sisterhood to Grime Culture, Pole Dance and beyond.
Supported by Cockayne Grants for the Arts, Mini Title, Capture One, The Central Film School and Imagine Studios.
Image credit: Sage
About the artists:
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(b. 2001) Is a London-based photographer, whose life changed three years ago. Since giving her life wholly to Jesus, music has played an emotionally sweet role in her life. Sound began to create a place of safety, comfort and honesty in front of God. First discovering a gift and love for photography at 15 years old, she continues her practice by letting us see a personal side of her. Whether wrestling with God about her “lack” of femininity, or dealing with the lasting effects of depression and persistent fear, worship music has helped tear down some of those walls that kept her from coming to God. The use of the word “tears" in her work titled Welcome Home, aren’t about sadness but rather her gratitude to God poured out visibly. Welcome Home, is her invitation for curiosity, both into the individual and communal experience of worshipping God. A journey that started with Jannell but she now sees spreading throughout London.
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Is a visual artist with roots in Ivory Coast and Ghana. Born in Paris, he's now based in London creating his art. His photographs take inspiration from James Barnor & Chi Modu and focus on a documenting a generation of French creatives, musicians and influencers living in London. For ‘Art for the Soul’, Mensah worked with singers Aanya and Doëlla and Creative Director Drucilla Pallas to create a series of stylish portraits.
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In ‘Nuestrx Viaje (Our Journey)’, Photographer and Director M Camila Bañol Montoya and Creative Director Lizbeth E Peña Pilla combine magic realism, fashion styling and DJ culture to create an otherworldly short film that revolves around a latinx fusion DJ set by Group 3 Incognito.
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Is a South London based photographer who puts storytelling and community at the heart of her work. Her new ongoing series Silver Linings explores the sounds, faces and bodies of a ‘pole’ community that have helped her to reconnect with herself and her femininity after facing traumatic events.
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Is a South London-based photographer and director whose work fuses editorial fashion with symbolic storytelling. His latest series, Made in the Manor, reimagines iconic urban London experiences, reframing them with a cinematic and fashion-inspired lens.
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‘Have Faith’ is a project set in Amna House, West London. Since her family moved to the UK in 2006, this has been the fifteenth home that young London based Iraqi photographer Esraa Mohammed has known.
Amna (Arabic for ‘safe’, or colloquially ‘the crib’) is the first place Mohammed has been able to call ‘home’. Amna’s walls have witnessed her experience sisterhood, shared Dolma, sleep, clothes and laughter. Having faith, gave Mohammed the confidence to translate these experiences into a new series of photographic images.
On the 3rd of August 2025, Mohammed’s family received their fifth Eviction Notice.
With 2 days' notice to vacate the property, this new work and her first ‘3azeema’ (dinner party) became her way of resistance.
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Is a South London-based photographer professionally known as Haych.
His series ‘The Journey….’ is a personal portrait of South London recording artist Deno. Presented as a triptych and short film, the work charts Deno’s journey from childhood dreamer, to singing on snapchat in his bedroom to finding his voice in school playgrounds, and finally having a viral moment when a post on YouTube in 2004 attracted. This collaboration between Deno and Adhahom, his cousin, became a way of preserving the memory of their growing up experiences with UK R&B/Afroswing, and becoming celebrities in their Eritrean community and beyond.
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(b.2000) Is a South London based photographer whose work centres around the experience of friendship, intimacy and how we connect with our bodies. Her project Solitary Sound explores the more introverted experience of how we consume music on a daily basis by ourselves, in our personal spaces.