ILONA JOY West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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Photographer, artist and creative director. Born in post-industrial northern England in 1994, the last generation with flip phones. Left a marketing career to pursue art. Graduated from Leeds Arts University with a first-class BA (Hons) Fashion Photography in 2024. Working across photography, AI, 3D, games design, digital art and moving image.

My practice moves between photography, generative AI, moving image, photogrammetry and digital environments. I’m interested in using technology not simply as a tool for producing images, but as part of the subject itself - particularly the ways it influences identity, culture and how we understand ourselves.

Much of my work begins with photography before moving between physical and digital processes. I’m particularly drawn to moments where technology behaves unexpectedly: glitches, inconsistencies, distortions and unintended connections that would normally be corrected or hidden. Rather than removing them, I allow these artefacts to become part of the work.

Across my practice I explore the tension between individuality and conformity, physical and virtual identity, and the increasingly blurred relationship between people and the technologies through which we experience the world.