Each year Open Doors Gallery selects its Top Ten emerging photographic artists from the presentations at Free Range. This is the third year of the collaboration.
Now in its 26th year, Free Range has become a key destination for discovering new creative talent, bringing together standout graduate work from across the UK under one roof at London’s Truman Brewery. This years OD Top Ten for 2026 are listed below, and posted to our discovery account, @odtakeovers.
Every artist in the Free Range Top Ten receives discounted entry to the OD Photo Prize 2026. Our Free Range Top Talent, submits for free. We will email or DM you your code v soon! A huge congratulations to all participating artists this year.
The OD Photo Prize is our annual open call dedicated to discovering and supporting the next generation of photographic artists. Of the last nine artists we have shown at international fairs in London, Paris and Rotterdam, seven first came to us through the prize. This year’s work is judged by an international panel of artists, gallerists, curators and editors. Shortlisted artists, announced later this year, are exhibited in London alongside our roster of award winning artists. The winner receives a cash prize, gallery representation and an interview with 1000 Words Magazine. Submissions close on 11 August.
Submission deadline | 11 August 2025
Here is our Free Range Top 10…
Cara Boyce · Chemical Miracle
Edinburgh Napier University
A mixed media project on people’s personal experiences and relationships with medication. Each portrait was made as a cyanotype and sewn into a large quilt, the process chosen to mirror the chemical reaction that takes place in the body when medication is taken. NHS gown patterning, the name of each sitter’s medication and empty blister packets are worked into the surface. Winner of the Visual Arts Scotland Graduate Award.
Website · @cara_on_film
Molly Fisher · The 33rd County
Edinburgh Napier University
A documentary series on Irish diaspora and long-distance nationalism in Fisher’s hometown of Coatbridge, approaching the town as a site shaped by migration, labour and cultural memory, and asking how Irishness is performed, inherited and reconceptualised across generations. Accompanied by a book with a foreword by Des Dillon.
Website · @mollyfisherphoto
Eilidh Bonar · Thursdays Child Has Far To Go
Edinburgh Napier University
A work on the conflicting feelings attached to the idea of home, trying to decipher what the word means and what weight it holds in a life. Made in a house lived in since birth, where every good thing and every difficult thing has happened within the same four walls.
@eilidhbonarphotography
Richie Harold
Norwich University of the Arts
A practice built on collaboration, analogue photography and documenting creative people and their work. Two collaborations are shown together: photographs printed onto reconstructed 35mm film boxes and mounted on recycled wooden card, made with textile designer Sinead Burrage, and a larger print made with Fashion Communication student Fleur Saint Lewis from a shoot on skinhead and rude boy culture in Britain.
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Libby May · Murielli
Canterbury Christ Church University
A book dedicated to the artist’s grandmother, combining archives dating back to the 1940s, contemporary digital photographs and quotes drawn from her grandmother’s autobiography. Made to honour her effect on the family while placing her own words of reflection alongside the images.
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Etta Daniel · If Walls Could Talk
A series on nostalgia, grief and ephemerality, made after the death of the artist’s mother when she was 18 and the shift that followed in her relationship with the family home. The walls that once held childhood memories no longer felt warm, the objects on the mantelpiece no longer offered comfort, and a distance grew, to the point that she found herself visiting less and less, though it remains the house where her grandparents still live. The work traces the ways grief takes shelter within tangible objects, treating distance as both a form of separation and a method of coping. By solarising, blurring and layering her self-portraits, Davies confronts the emotional weight the house carries and opens herself to new ways of healing.
@ettaddaniel
Emily Goodwin · Sunday Tactics
Canterbury Christ Church University
A project on the faces, backgrounds and characteristics of players from two opposing teams, Thamesview FC and Chatham Town FC, reimagining young players in the Sunday Kent League through the style of 1970s and 80s Panini collectible cards, each on their own personalised trading card.
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Sadie Rose Tarrant-Willis · The Snake Woman’s SCUM Fantasies
Norwich University of the Arts
Collaged concertina zine. An inter-disciplinary artist and writer producing text and bodies of work that reflect autoethnographic statements, reflections, questions, confessions, wishes and fears pertaining to her position as a 22-year-old woman with a stammer, living in Britain. SCUM Fantasies takes the identity of an audible album experience and stands as another iteration in her efforts to reimagine the symbol, character and ending of Eve. Built from found imagery and stills from a series of performances and rituals, the collages are arranged as tracks, slipped between with a fictitious interview with the Snake Woman herself. The work explores feminine rage and feminist frustration in a supposedly post-feminist landscape, evoking the surreal and the ritual to enact the commentary.
@damsel.in.jest
Amy Liddington · 3am REM
Norwich University of the Arts
Photographic print on LED panels. A multimedia practice exploring perception, psychology and the relationship between physical and digital experience, drawing on a surreal and uncanny visual language of distorted imagery, symbolic objects and dreamlike atmospheres.
@amu_x_art · @amu_x_photography
Mollie Prior · Preserved in Light
University Centre South Essex
Preserved in Light reimagines the history of Crittall windows through photography and cyanotype. Drawing on the Crittall Windows Archive at Braintree Museum, situating Essex at epicentre of Modernist movement, sculptural work examines iconic language of fabricated symmetry, light and form. Reinterpreting artefacts, the installation explores Crittall’s industrial and residential heritage as a living, contemporary spatial and material legacy.
Website