This New Photography Exhibition Is a Raw Showcase of Vulnerability in Your Twenties
Bringing together five emerging photographers, ‘Cold Feet’ captures the uncertainty of a generation.
A new exhibition landing in Soho, London, is spotlighting a generation of photographers navigating uncertainty, intimacy and self-discovery. Titled Cold Feet, the group show opens at Southern & Partners, bringing together works by Timon Benson, Georgia Jones, Hamish McMillan, Kendal Walker and Elena Bianca Zagari.
The exhibition explores the shared emotional landscape of artists in their mid-twenties, tracing themes of vulnerability and possibility. Through portraiture, personal narratives and observational photography, Cold Feet captures defining moments in both the artists’ lives and careers, evoking feelings we are all too familiar with.
Among the featured works is Benson’s Impasse (2025), an almost life-sized portrait set against a room strewn with personal belongings, offering a glimpse into a moment suspended between relief and uncertainty. Elsewhere, Zagari debuts Sex Diaries (2026), a deeply personal series that examines women’s experiences of intimacy, desire and memory through the body as an emotional archive.
Walker brings a diaristic approach to portraiture, creating images that feel both intimate and unsettling, while Jones investigates the relationship between photographer and subject, often inserting traces of herself into the frame. McMillan’s observational photographs round out the exhibition, exploring longing and connection through the subtle remnants of human interaction.
This is a starkly intimate and raw portrayal of being a 20-something-year-old today.
Cold Feet is now open until August 1, so head on down to Southern & Partners.
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