“I don’t know where my mom thought I was.” “We’d get on the bus all the way from Croydon” and ride two hours into the city. At 17, he met a young man from Lithuania on a website called Gaydar and began a relationship that he is still in today. Addy knew he was gay, but felt he couldn’t be open with his family or church.
It blends high fashion with photojournalism and immerses readers in his world: vibrant, moody and deeply Black.įrom a young age, Mr. His first book, “Feeling Seen ,” will be published in April. In 2021, he was included in Forbes 30 under 30, and he was the recipient of “New Wave” British Fashion Awards in 20. His fantastical Afrocentric vision has shown up in British Vogue and on the covers of i-D, WSJ and Dazed (among others), while his portraits of Black artists like Tyler the Creator and FKA Twigs, which seek to reveal their subjects’ inner character, have made him one of the top photographers of the moment. Addy, 28, is so busy taking on fashion shoots that he can barely keep up.
“It seems bad, but I’m so happy,” he said. It was filled with long tubes of backdrop paper, piled boxes of camera gear and random space heaters, which had yet to warm the room. He was wearing denim overalls, an exuberant corduroy baker boy cap from Nicholas Daley, an oversize rust-colored scarf and Doc Martens. LONDON - On a cold, wet day in South London, Campbell Addy, the Ghanaian-British photographer, filmmaker and artist, opened the door to his studio, grinning.