Collectives Hub: Elephant

Elephant brings together four photographers whose practices share a belief that photography can shift not only how we see the world, but how we remember it. The work sits deliberately between fact and fiction, real and staged, giving you enough to look but not enough to decide. That refusal opens the door to humour, absurdity, poetry, and playfulness as a way of countering a heavy world. Underneath that surface aesthetic, the work is selective, constructed, closer to interpretation than record, inviting a multitude of possible narratives.

Emma Collins is a British visual artist and photographer working across staged photography, collage and digital process. Following an MA at Falmouth University, she has developed a research-led, autobiographical practice that explores family, belonging and the construction of identity, treating the domestic as a site of quiet pressure. Recognition includes the Lenscratch Student Prize and a place in the Photolucida Critical Mass 2026 Top 50, and she has exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Four Corners (London), and Fabrica (Brighton).

Hugh Fox is a photographer working across portraiture, documentary and observational photography, drawn to the ambiguity between the staged and the found. He studied Fine Art at Brighton University, where a multidisciplinary mix of photography, film, sound and sculpture shaped the curious, playful approach that defines his practice today. His work has won Gold and Silver at the AOP Awards, the Sony World Photography Awards Professional Portfolio, and Portrait of Britain five years running. Through his work, he uncovers the quiet poetry hidden in everyday, overlooked moments.

Ting Cheng is a Taiwanese-British photographer and artist based in Brighton. Her photography brings together everyday objects, found materials and playful arrangements, revealing poetry and humour in the overlooked. Moving between observation and staged compositions, she explores relationships between people, objects and nature. Her work has been exhibited at Fabrica Gallery, Phoenix Art Space, Zen Foto Gallery in Tokyo and the Taiwan Biennial.

Luisa De la Concha Montes is a Mexican writer and photographer based in London. She holds a BA from Cardiff University in English Literature, and a MA from the University of Sussex in Photography. Her practice brings shapeless states such as memory, diaspora, and grief into physical form through visual poetry, documentary photography and digital curation. Her project, The Activists of Brighton was exhibited at Photo Fringe 2022. Her writing has been published widely; and showcased at the National Poetry Library. She is part of the London Writers Centre 2026/27 Young Writers Collective.