Akin Brown

Akin Brown I like doing things; taking photos of everyone, everywhere, and everything is one of them.

This is often what stops me: a play in an ordinary passage, a person held by light, lives glimpsed through windows and t...
31/08/2026

This is often what stops me: a play in an ordinary passage, a person held by light, lives glimpsed through windows and the strange little coincidences life offers only when you’re looking.

What we keep becomes part of how we remember ourselves, and how others remember us. Not every portrait needs a face.
25/08/2026

What we keep becomes part of how we remember ourselves, and how others remember us.

Not every portrait needs a face.

“Between Places”A study of presence and place. How we occupy the city, and what changes when we stop to look. With Anast...
20/08/2026

“Between Places”

A study of presence and place. How we occupy the city, and what changes when we stop to look.

With Anastasiia, thank you for trusting the idea and bringing your presence to it. A joy making these together 👏🏾!

London, for me, is rarely the landmarks.
18/08/2026

London, for me, is rarely the landmarks.

For a moment, we’re both deciding what the photograph can be: what they might reveal, and when I should press the shutte...
08/08/2026

For a moment, we’re both deciding what the photograph can be: what they might reveal, and when I should press the shutter. Some people dance, sometimes we perform for one another. Sometimes trust arrives.

You never quite know.

1. ClassicBooth Sale, KingsCross, London. 2026
2. Nottinghill Carnival, 2024
3. Southbank, 2026
4. The History of Uk Skateboarding 1967 - 2002, Book launch. Anastasiya Cherkasyuk invited me to in Aries, Soho. May, 2026.
5. Nottinghill Carnival, 2024

Before the projects and the places, there is the way I look: for care, distance, gesture and the small clues that tell u...
04/08/2026

Before the projects and the places, there is the way I look: for care, distance, gesture and the small clues that tell us how a person inhabits a room. Seven photographs from different encounters, held together by that attention.

1. Eugenia and Neva at home. April, 2026. Stockholm
2. Arsenal Parade, London
3. Marrakesh, Morocco. 2025
4. Borough Market, 2026
5. Identify carried in hands and jewellery. Bristol, 2023
6. Bts at Ravi’s shoot, Kennington, London. Feb, 2026.

Before the projects and the places, there is the way I look: for care, distance, gesture and the small clues that tell u...
04/08/2026

Before the projects and the places, there is the way I look: for care, distance, gesture and the small clues that tell us how a person inhabits a room. Seven photographs from different encounters, held together by that attention.

1. Eugenia and Neva at home, Stockholm
2. Arsenal Parade, London
3. Marrakesh, Morocco. 2025
4. Borough Market, 2026
5. Identify carried in hands and jewellery. Bristol, 2023
6. Bts at Ravi’s shoot, Kennington, London. Feb, 2026.

27/07/2026

On the quest for taste embellishment, Wes Anderson is quite impeccable.

Portrait of , whom I met on Kingly Street, Soho. Arigatō
18/07/2026

Portrait of , whom I met on Kingly Street, Soho. Arigatō

I’m starting to realise I photograph people the way I remember places.
20/05/2026

I’m starting to realise I photograph people the way I remember places.

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