With a background in performance, choreography and contemporary dance, AdeY’s photographic works study subjects such as the human body’s balance, strength and physics. Here they photograph and portray the body in its purest form – bare, undressed and naked. The work seeks to create a non-sexualised and open-minded representation of humankind, which is based on a dream of acceptance.

A focus and attention to people’s right to differences drives the Swedish / British artist’s images, and here it is especially the differences that are about physics, gender, race and sexuality.

With a humorous and experimental approach, they seek to highlight our vulnerability, loneliness, and strengths, whilst capturing those little moments of social oppression, isolation, anxiety, and depression that appear to play a central role in the human condition. In practice, it is in many ways the perception of the body that is being challenged by the artist, based on their own background and experience of the human body, but it is also to a greater extent the perception of the viewer and the outside world, which is central to their artistic voice.

AdeY has exhibited extensively across the globe at prestigious venues such as Fotografiska (Stockholm, Sweden), CLAMP (New York, USA), Galerie XII (Los Angeles, USA), Chaussee 36 (Berlin, Germany), The Little Black Gallery (London, UK), The Finnish Museum of Photography (Helsinki, Finland), Fotogalleri Vasli Souza (Oslo, Norway), Falsterbo Photo Art Museum (Sweden), Paris Photo (France), and Unseen (Amsterdam, Netherlands).

His critically acclaimed photobook, UNCENSORED, first published to coincide with his debut U.S. show at Galerie XII (2021–2022), quickly sold out. The touring exhibition and the book's second edition were launched in London with The Little Black Gallery to coincide with Photo London, followed by highly successful exhibitions in Paris and Oslo later that year.

UNCENSORED Highlights