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Disclosure: I am Campbell Addy, the subject of this article, so I have a conflict of interest. I am not editing the article myself. The proposed text below was prepared with help from an assistant. I ask volunteer editors to add whatever meets Wikipedia's sourcing and neutrality standards, and to trim or decline anything that does not.

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Campbell Addy (born 1993) is a British-Ghanaian photographer, filmmaker and artist.[1][2] His fashion editorial, portrait and publishing work includes a focus on the visibility of Black, queer and other under-represented communities.[1] He founded the arts publication Niijournal and the casting and modelling agency Nii Agency while studying at Central Saint Martins.[2] His first monograph, Feeling Seen: The Photographs of Campbell Addy, was published by Prestel in 2022 with a foreword by Edward Enninful.[3][1]

His honours include the Isabella Blow Award for Fashion Creator at The Fashion Awards 2023 and the Royal Photographic Society's 2024 Award for Fashion, Advertising and Commercial Photography.[4][5] He was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2021 and to the BoF 500 in 2022.[1] He was the subject of an episode of National Geographic's documentary series Photographer, which won a Peabody Award in 2025.[6][7]

Early life

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Addy was born and raised in South London.[8] He grew up in a Ghanaian Jehovah's Witness family, left home as a teenager after his family learned he was gay, and received support from the Albert Kennedy Trust.[9] He subsequently lived in foster care with Richard Field.[2]

He discovered fashion photography while reorganising his school library, where he encountered books by Nick Knight, Norman Parkinson and Irving Penn.[1] He went on to study at Central Saint Martins, graduating in 2016.[5]

Career

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In 2016, during the final year of his degree, Addy founded Niijournal, an arts and culture publication, and Nii Agency, a casting and modelling agency, to address the lack of representation in fashion and culture.[10][2] Niijournal's fourth issue, Pride?, was published in 2024, following issues released in 2016, 2017 and 2018.[11]

Addy's editorial and portrait work has appeared in British Vogue, i-D, Dazed, Time, The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone and Garage.[1][3] His cover work includes Vogue Italia's December 2023 issue featuring Liya Kebede and American Vogue's Winter 2024 digital cover featuring Usher and Carolyn Murphy.[12][13] He photographed Beyoncé for Harper's Bazaar's September 2021 issue, and Cynthia Erivo for British GQ's 2025 Men of the Year coverage.[14][15] His sitters have included Kendall Jenner, FKA twigs and Tyler, the Creator.[1]

In April 2022 Prestel published Feeling Seen: The Photographs of Campbell Addy, his first monograph.[1][3] It opens with a foreword by Edward Enninful, then British Vogue's editor-in-chief, and closes with Addy in conversation with the curator and writer Ekow Eshun. The book pays tribute to the photographers Ajamu and James Barnor.[3]

In 2023 Addy presented I Love Campbell at 180 Studios in London, an exhibition combining photographs, paintings and a short film, with set design by Ibby Njoya.[16] The film was shot in Ghana, and the exhibition included a soundscape by cktrl.[17] In 2025 I Love Campbell was a headline exhibition of the Ballarat International Foto Biennale, staged at the Ballarat Mining Exchange.[18][19] In the same year, SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film in Atlanta mounted The Stillness of Elegance, his first institutional solo exhibition in the United States.[20]

In 2024 Addy was the subject of Campbell Addy: Feeling Seen, an episode of the first season of National Geographic's Photographer, following his preparations for a solo art exhibition.[21] The series won the arts-category Peabody Award at the 85th Peabody Awards, announced in May 2025. The award was made to the series, produced by National Geographic and Little Monster Films.[6][7]

His projects include Impermanence (2024), a film and installation created with Yagamoto for Jaguar's Miami Art Week presentation;[22][23] PLEASE (2026), an exhibition at PLEATS PLEASE ISSEY MIYAKE / AOYAMA in Tokyo created with Ibby Njoya;[24] and the AHLEM x Campbell Addy sunglasses collection, consisting of two numbered-edition frames honouring the photographers James Barnor and Malick Sidibé.[25] In 2026, he photographed Princess Diana's 1994 revenge dress for Sotheby's auction publicity.[26]

In 2024 he donated the diptych Am I paining you? (2022) to Whitechapel Gallery's Art Icon Auction, held in association with Phillips to support the gallery's education and public programmes. That year's Art Icon award was presented to Isaac Julien.[27]

Awards and recognition

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Addy's honours include the Royal Photographic Society Award for Fashion, Advertising and Commercial Photography (2024);[5] the Isabella Blow Award for Fashion Creator at The Fashion Awards (2023);[4] inclusion in the BoF 500 (2022) and Forbes 30 Under 30 (2021);[1] the inaugural NOWNESS Awards (2019);[28] the British Fashion Council's New Wave: Creatives (2018 and 2019);[29][30] Creative Review's Zeitgeist Award (2017);[31] and the Dazed 100 (2017).[10] He was nominated for the Africa MediaWorks Photography Prize in 2018.[32]

Selected publications

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Feeling Seen: The Photographs of Campbell Addy (Prestel, 2022).[3][1]

Niijournal I-IV (2016-2024), including Niijournal IV: Pride? (2024).[11]

Unlocking Seoul.[33]

Selected exhibitions

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PLEASE, PLEATS PLEASE ISSEY MIYAKE / AOYAMA, Tokyo (2026).[24]

The Stillness of Elegance, SCAD FASH, Atlanta (2025).[20]

I Love Campbell, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Ballarat Mining Exchange (2025).[19]

I Love Campbell, 180 Studios, London (2023).[16]

MAJOR, New School, 180 Studios, London (2022).[34]

Feeling Seen, Protein Galleries, London (2022).[35]

The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion, Saatchi Gallery, London (2022-2023).[36]

Get Up, Stand Up Now!, Somerset House, London (2019).[37]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "BoF 500 profile". www.businessoffashion.com. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Campbell Addy wants his photographs to make you feel seen". Dazed. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Prestel: Feeling Seen". prestelpublishing.penguinrandomhouse.de. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  4. 1 2 "British Fashion Council: Fashion Awards 2023 winners". www.britishfashioncouncil.co.uk. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  5. 1 2 3 "RPS Awards 2024 press release" (PDF). rps.org. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  6. 1 2 "Peabody Awards: Photographer". peabodyawards.com. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  7. 1 2 "85th Peabody Winners Announced". Peabody Awards. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  8. ↑ "My, myself and I: Campbell Addy's search for identity - in pictures". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  9. ↑ "Photographer Campbell Addy opens up about the struggle between his sexuality and spirituality". i-D. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  10. 1 2 "Campbell Addy Dazed 100". Dazed. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  11. 1 2 "Dazed: Niijournal IV (2024)". www.dazeddigital.com. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  12. ↑ "Vogue Italia: Liya Kebede December 2023 cover". www.vogue.it. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  13. ↑ "Vogue: Usher Winter 2024 digital cover". www.vogue.com. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  14. ↑ "Harper's Bazaar: Beyonce Icons issue (2021)". www.harpersbazaar.com. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  15. ↑ "British GQ: Cynthia Erivo MOTY cover". www.gq-magazine.co.uk. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  16. 1 2 "Dazed on I Love Campbell". www.dazeddigital.com. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  17. ↑ "Exhibitions". Campbell Addy. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  18. ↑ "Ballarat Biennale annual report: headline exhibition" (PDF). ballaratfoto.org. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  19. 1 2 "Ballarat International Foto Biennale unveils 2025 program". City of Ballarat. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  20. 1 2 "Campbell Addy: The Stillness of Elegance". SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  21. ↑ "Campbell Addy: Feeling Seen". Apple TV. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  22. ↑ "Jaguar: Impermanence at Miami Art Week". www.jaguar.com. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  23. ↑ "Dazed: Jaguar at Miami Art Basel". www.dazeddigital.com. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  24. 1 2 "Issey Miyake: PLEASE exhibition". us.isseymiyake.com. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  25. ↑ "AHLEM x Campbell Addy". www.ahlemeyewear.com. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  26. ↑ "Guardian: Diana revenge dress for Sotheby's". www.theguardian.com. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  27. ↑ "Whitechapel Gallery: 2024 Art Icon Auction". www.whitechapelgallery.org. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  28. ↑ "Nowness Awards". www.nowness.com. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  29. ↑ "British Vogue: New Wave Creatives 2018". www.vogue.co.uk. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  30. ↑ "i-D on Feeling Seen and Enninful". i-d.co. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  31. ↑ "Creative Review Zeitgeist 2017". www.creativereview.co.uk. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  32. ↑ "Africa MediaWorks Photography Prize". Nataal. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  33. ↑ "Forbes 30 Under 30 profile". www.forbes.com. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  34. ↑ "Major". 180 Studios. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  35. ↑ "Campbell Addy Launches Debut Photo Book Feeling Seen". Client Magazine. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  36. ↑ "The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion". Saatchi Gallery. Retrieved 25 October 2026.
  37. ↑ "Get Up, Stand Up Now: Exhibition highlights". Somerset House / Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 25 October 2026.

Campbelladdy (talk) 11:14, 24 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

In order for this to be reviewed, place the sources listed next to the text that they support (WP:INTEGRITY). Also you should update the references to use the WP:CS1 citation format. You may reopen the request after making these changes. Aloneinthewild (talk) 15:03, 25 October 2026 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for the guidance. I have revised the proposed text so that the references sit next to the statements they support, and converted them to CS1 citations. I have also narrowed or removed details where the sources did not clearly support the wording. My conflict of interest is unchanged: I am the subject of the article, and I am asking volunteer editors to review the proposal rather than editing the article directly. I would be grateful if the request could be reviewed again. Campbelladdy (talk) 22:58, 25 October 2026 (UTC)Reply
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