Campbell Addy
{{Short description|British-Ghanaian photographer and filmmaker}}
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| birth_place = South London, England, United Kingdom
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Campbell Addy (born March 19, 1993) is a British-Ghanaian photographer, filmmaker and artist.{{Cite web |date=2025-02-25 |title='Campbell Addy: The Stillness of Elegance' |url=https://www.scadfash.org/exhibitions/campbell-addy-stillness-elegance |access-date=2025-05-01 |website=SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film |language=en}}He is known working with high numbers of fashion clients Calvin Klein and more.{{Cite web |last=lisalangdonbanks |date=2021-09-21 |title=Campbell Addy // Calvin Klein - Naomi |url=https://www.postapollo.com/single-post/campbell-addy-calvin-klein-naomi |access-date=2025-05-01 |website=postapollo |language=en}} In 2021, he joined Forbes 30 Under 30 list.{{Cite web |title=Campbell Addy |url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/campbell-addy/ |access-date=2025-05-01 |website=Forbes |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2023-05-10 |title=Campbell Addy {{!}} BoF 500 {{!}} The People Shaping the Global Fashion Industry |url=https://www.businessoffashion.com/people/campbell-addy/ |access-date=2025-05-01 |website=The Business of Fashion |language=en}}
Early life
Addy was born and raised in South London. His parents separated during his childhood and he was brought up by his Jehovah's Witness mother in a low-income community.{{Cite news |last=Simons |first=Baya |date=2019-11-08 |title=Campbell Addy — ‘I have to bring my perspective’ |work=Financial Times |url=https://www.ft.com/content/b463eb5c-ffd7-11e9-b7bc-f3fa4e77dd47 |access-date=2022-03-24}}{{Cite news |last=Penny |first=Daniel |date=2022-03-17 |title=Campbell Addy Up Close |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/17/style/campbell-addy-feeling-seen.html |access-date=2022-03-24 |issn=0362-4331}}
When he was 17, Addy's brother outed Campbell's sexual orientation to their mother after he had uncovered a photography of Campbell and a boyfriend in his bedroom. Fearing being sent to live with his Muslim father in Ghana, Addy fled home. He was taken in by the Albert Kennedy Trust and subsequently put into foster care with Richard Field, a gay artist living in South London. Addy has since reconciled with his family.
In 2010 Addy was tasked with reorganising the school library, where he discovered the books of Nick Knight, Norman Parkinson and Irving Penn and realised that the possibility of using photography in an artistic storytelling way.{{Cite web |last=Huxtable |first=Isaac |title=Campbell Addy on his mission to champion Black visibility, creativity, and the pioneers that came before him - 1854 Photography |url=https://www.1854.photography/2022/03/campbell-addy-feeling-seen/ |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=www.1854.photography |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |last=Dazed |date=2022-03-29 |title=Campbell Addy wants his photographs to make you feel seen |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/55790/1/campbell-addy-photographer-feeling-seen-book-interview-2022 |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=Dazed |language=en}}
Addy studied Fashion Communications at Central Saint Martins, where he realised he wanted to be a photographer after an encouraging conversation with friend Ib Kamara.{{Cite web |last=Huxtable |first=Isaac |title=Campbell Addy on his mission to champion Black visibility, creativity, and the pioneers that came before him - 1854 Photography |url=https://www.1854.photography/2022/03/campbell-addy-feeling-seen/ |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=www.1854.photography |language=en-GB}} In the final year of his degree he launched his own magazine and agency Nii Journal and Nii Agency.{{Cite web |date=2017-03-17 |title=This London Creative Guru Is Changing the Way Fashion Thinks About Diversity |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/campbell-addy-photographer-nii-agency-magazine-london-exhibition |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=Vogue |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Fletcher |first=Gemma |date=2022-04-20 |title=Campbell Addy's journey to Feeling Seen |url=https://www.creativereview.co.uk/campbell-addys-journey-to-feeling-seen/ |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=Creative Review |language=en-UK}}
Career
Campbell Addy has worked with a number of fashion clients including Off-White, Calvin Klein, MAC. He has shot magazine covers for WSJ, Time, The Cut, Dazed and Rolling Stone, and photographed Tyler, the Creator, FKA Twigs, Naomi Campbell, Beyonce, and Edward Enninful.{{Cite web |last=Dazed |date=2022-03-29 |title=Campbell Addy wants his photographs to make you feel seen |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/55790/1/campbell-addy-photographer-feeling-seen-book-interview-2022 |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=Dazed |language=en}}
Addy's work has been exhibited in London, Paris, Melbourne, New York, Oslo, and Qatar, being part of exhibitions such as The New Black Vanguard at the Saatchi, Get Up Stand Up Now! At Somerset House and MAJOR at 180 the Strand.{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://campbelladdy.com/about |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=CAMPBELL ADDY |language=en-GB}}
Addy was included in Forbes 30 under 30, and the New Wave British Fashion Awards in both 2018 and 2019.{{Cite web |title=Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe 2021: Art & Culture |url=https://www.forbes.com/30-under-30/2021/europe/art-culture/ |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=Forbes |language=en}}
His first monograph Feeling Seen: the Photographs of Campbell Addy debuted in 2022.{{Cite web |title=Feeling Seen: The Photographs of Campbell Addy |url=https://campbelladdy.com/feelingseen |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=CAMPBELL ADDY |language=en-GB}}
Exhibitions
- I Love Campbell (stylized as I ♡ Campbell) @ 180 the Strand, 2023https://www.180studios.com/exhibitions-and-performances/i-love-campbell
- New School Represents: MAJOR @ 180 the Strand, 2022{{Cite web |title=Major — 180 The Strand |url=https://www.180thestrand.com/major |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=www.180thestrand.com |language=en}}
- Campbell Addy: The British Fashion Council x British Embassy exhibition, Paris, 2022{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}
- Haute Photographie @Amsterdam Museumsquare, 2022{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}
- The New Black Vanguard @ Saatchi Gallery, 2022{{Cite web |title=The New Black Vanguard - Exhibition - Saatchi Gallery |url=https://www.saatchigallery.com/exhibition/the_new_black_vanguard__photography_between_art_and_fashion |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=www.saatchigallery.com}}
- Feeling Seen @ Protein studios, London, 2022 {{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}
- The New Black Vanguard w/ Aperture @ The Rencontres D’Arles, 2021{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}
- The New Black Vanguard w/ Aperture @ Tasweer Photo Festival Qatar, 2021{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}
- The New Black Vanguard w/ Aperture @ Bunjil Place Gallery Australia, 2020{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}
- The Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, 2019 - 2020{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}
- Somerset House: Get Up Stand Up Now! 2019{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}
- Matthew 7:7 & 8, 2017{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}
Publications
- Feeling Seen: The Photographs of Campbell Addy, 2022
- Niijournal III, 2018
- Unlocking Seoul, 2017
- Niijournal II, 2017{{Cite web |title=Campbell Addy's 'Niijournal II' highlights mental health issues in ethnic communities |url=https://crackmagazine.net/article/long-reads/campbell-addys-niijournal-ii-highlights-mental-health-issues-in-ethnic-communities/ |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Crack Magazine}}
- Niijournal I, 2016
Awards and recognitions
- The Agent's Club Awards (2020){{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}
- Lovie Awards (2019){{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}
- Creative Review - Zeitgeist Award (2017, 2018){{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}
- Africa Media Works Photography Prize (2018){{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}
- Stacks Best Magazine of the Year Award (2017){{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}
- Dazed 100 (2017){{Cite web |last=Dazed |date=2017-04-06 |title=Vote for Campbell Addy on the #Dazed100 |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/projects/article/35398/1/campbell-addy-photographers-biography-dazed-100-profile |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Dazed |language=en}}
- British Fashion Awards: New Wave Creative (2018, 2019),{{Cite web |last=Tyner |first=Ashley |date=2022-03-22 |title=Campbell Addy on his new chapter and why he's ready to go full camp |url=https://i-d.co/article/campbell-addy-feeling-seen-book/ |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=i-D |language=en}} Isabella Blow Award for Fashion Creator (2023).{{Cite web |title=Qui sont les lauréats des Fashion Awards 2023 ? |url=https://www.vogue.fr/article/fashion-awards-2023-vainqueurs |access-date=5 March 2024 |website=Vogue France}}
- Nowness Award (2019){{Cite web |title=Nowness Fetes Inaugural Awards at the V&A |url=https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/nowness-fetes-inaugural-awards-v-000205754.html |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=www.yahoo.com |language=en-US}}
- Forbes 30 Under 30 (2021){{Cite web |title=Campbell Addy |url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/campbell-addy/ |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Forbes |language=en}}
- RPS (The Royal Photographic Society) Award for Fashion, Advertising and Commercial Photography (2024)
References
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Category:Ghanaian photographers