Campbell Addy Up Close
nytimes.comLONDON — On a cold, wet day in South London, Campbell Addy, the Ghanaian-British photographer, filmmaker and artist, opened the door to his studio, grinning.
He was wearing denim overalls, an exuberant corduroy baker boy cap from Nicholas Daley, an oversize rust-colored scarf and Doc Martens. “This is my first studio on my own,” Mr.
Addy 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. “It seems bad, but I’m so happy,” he said.
Mr. Addy, 28, is so busy taking on fashion shoots that he can barely keep up. His fantastical Afrocentric vision has shown up on the covers of British Vogue, 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.
