AIPAD 2026: Sander Vos

Sander Vos (b. 1988) is a Dutch, London-based artist who constructs layered photographic images that disrupt automated seeing. He uses fragmentation, collage, and shifting perspectives to transform familiar subjects such as portraits, still lifes, and everyday objects into dreamlike arrangements that feel both alien and recognizable.

Viewers are invited to pause, search, and reassemble meaning, stepping briefly outside the illusions of constructed reality. Photography becomes not a record of the world but a tool for revealing how perception is actively assembled. Light, shadow, and negative space act as catalysts that interrupt habitual ways of looking and draw viewers in.

Working across digital and analog processes, Vos creates compositions that resist immediate clarity. Meaning unfolds gradually, revealing the delicate relationship between reality, perception, and consciousness.

His work has been recognized internationally and he was recently announced as juror pick at the Lensculture Portrait Awards 2025, recipient of the Graciela Iturbide Award, Museum of Avant Garde (MA-G), and Px3 Paris Photo Prize Fine Art Photographer of the Year 2023. He has exhibited internationally at venues including Photo London, The London Art Fair, and the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts.