adidas Originals Creator Network North – the 2026 cohort

Abi Black

Abi Black is a Manchester-based photographer and artist who was born and raised in Rochdale. They work across environmental portraiture and street photography to capture beauty within the everyday.

Their work explores sub-cultures and heritage, often taking inspiration from their own roots in alternative culture and their northern hometown. They often use analogue processes and produce textural work to create process-driven images that explore the notion of belonging.

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Albert Biney

Albert Biney is a photographer working across film and digital, focusing on portraiture and fashion. His work is defined by a controlled and structured approach, emphasising stillness. Everyday spaces play an integral role, defining the relationship between subject and styling. Through light, texture and composition, he balances intention with observation, creating images that feel deliberate yet natural.

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Anna Pugh

Anna Pugh is a creative working within art direction with experience across set dressing, prop building and art assisting. Coming from a background in graphic design and photography, her work is shaped by a strong image-led approach to composition and visual storytelling. Her work focuses on building atmosphere and place through identity, objects, texture and spatial detail. Her practice considers how the details of a space can shape mood, suggest character and make a visual world feel believable.

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Ayesha Ali

Ayesha Ali is a British South Asian artist who utilises a wide range of media including – but not limited to – photography, graphic design and curation. Her work explores culture, relationships and faith through the lens of her experiences as a woman of colour living in the UK.

Ben Brumpton

Ben Brumpton is a multi-media artist, born in Scunthorpe and based in Manchester. Through socially circulated language and imagery, he curates a landscape exploring the identity of post-industrial Britain, with a focus on subverting traditional British iconography and re-focusing within the context of today’s society. Brumpton’s work expands throughout publishing, installation, photography and video, with the goal of hearing, documenting and sharing as many stories as possible

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Daniel Amadi

Daniel Amadi is a director and filmmaker whose work explores family, struggle and fortitude. They are interested in their own tendencies, weaknesses and the limits of their knowledge – often explored through alternate realities or exaggerations. They are also deeply interested in enriching their work by meeting and learning from others.

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Daniel Oyegade

Daniel Oyegade is a writer, director and visual artist. His work takes place primarily at night. Side streets, estates and municipal spaces are treated as stages, lit by streetlights which become stage lights. He works across film, photography and mixed media, building small fictions out of everyday situations.

His work is concerned with how people construct meaning under pressure through belief, performance and delusion. It draws from folklore, postmodern theory, fashion imagery and everyday urban life to challenge the boundary between high and low art.

The northwest becomes the backdrop and the subject. His work returns to it repeatedly, looking for moments where something ordinary slips and becomes something else.

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Farah Khalil

Farah Khalil is a Mexican filmmaker based in the North of England whose work explores the immigrant experience and the quiet negotiation of belonging. A humorous, outsider perspective is at the heart of their practice.

Their first role was being the assistant of the assistant. Wanting to understand how a story is built, they spent years working across camera, sound, art departments and post-production. This journey across different countries shaped their current 360-degree approach as a producer, director and tutor at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Farah’s work is always an exploration of identity. Take capturing ‘90s Mexico in their award-winning short Tortilla (Whistler Film Festival 2025) or collaborating with Soup Co. and Factory International on multi-channel films with icons like Suzanne Lacy. From documentaries for the Imperial War Museum to scripted shorts with VKA Studios, their films connect where they came from with where they are now.

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Irene González

Irene González is a filmmaker, photographer and visual storyteller working across documentary and branded content. Her practice focuses on capturing identity and community through images that feel honest and emotionally resonant.

She's drawn to stories shaped by movement, culture, adventure and the subtle details that reveal the character of a person, place or community. Blending a documentary eye with a cinematic sensibility, she creates work that is both beautiful and real.

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Lara Ptolomey

Lara Ptolomey is a Scottish multidisciplinary artist and creative director working across colour, textiles, styling, print and graphic language. Their work explores music, fashion, sportswear and youth culture, shaping attitude and identity through product and visual storytelling.

Lara’s practice focuses on material, surface, styling and form, expressed through creative direction, design and experimental visual language. Informed by sound and contemporary culture, they create expressive outcomes across fashion, cultural and performance contexts.

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Letitia Colling

Raised in the west side of Yorkshire, Letitia Colling is a creative director and film photographer. Grounded in a perspective gained by proximity, Letitia’s work reframes nuanced identities and narratives. Her vision is shaped by authenticity in cultured communities with a primary focus on honesty in storytelling. Creating long-lasting impacts on the audience, Letitia responds authentically to each project with a unique visual interpretation.

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Liliana Estelle Muñoz Flannery

Liliana Muñoz Flannery is a writer and image maker from Leeds, based in Manchester. Stemming from a fascination with the everyday, her work uses abstraction, a focus on the sensual and personal storytelling to explore the complexities of the human condition, tracing our relationships with time, ritual, memory and the rhythms of the natural world.

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Pelumi Fatayo

Pelumi is a facilitator and film and podcast producer and editor (visual and audio) who produces work that is socially conscious. He is a board member at Contact Theatre and hosts a Saturday radio show at Pie Radio. He was previously producer on the award-winning short film Nexus, which was a co-production with young people, researchers and a production company. Pelumi also produces and co-hosts podcast Crisis Talk where they debate, discuss and dissect issues affecting society from their own perspectives as Black people. Pelumi is currently building Politics and Poetry – a programme which brings creativity and politics together to help make politics more digestible for young people.

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Phoebe Bonser

Phoebe Bonser is a creative designer and marketer working across strategy, comms and design, with a focus on immersive and brand-led experiences. They are particularly interested in how audiences engage with and shape the work around them.

Phoebe’s approach to accessibility is informed by their own experience of visual impairment, which has shaped how they think about inclusion, interaction and what it really means to design for people. They create bold, experimental work across 3D motion, XR, photography, video and graphics, with a focus on making experiences that are both engaging and genuinely accessible.

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Ramiyah Kofi

Ramiyah Kofi is a 22-year-old model, stylist and creative director driven by a passion for music and creativity. Rooted in British culture, their work draws on real life stories, brought to life through collaborative projects with peers. With experience both in front of and behind the camera, they create supportive environments that prioritise comfort and confidence, while building strong networks and telling authentic, meaningful stories through creativity.

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Rayyanah Munye

Rayyanah Munye is a writer and director whose work explores femininity through the lens of the surreal and fantasy. She began her career in fashion and commercial production before developing her practice in visual research and writing. Her debut short film Girl Creature was made with the BFI Micro Short Fund and is set for release later this year.

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Rosie Callaghan

Rosie Callaghan is a Manchester-based producer, event curator, filmmaker and photographer from the North East of England who creates campaigns that connect with young people, neurodiverse communities and sporting groups. With experience developing campaigns and events with brands such as Nike, Footlocker, Schuh, Google, NTS Radio and Clarks, she champions emerging young local Northern talent alongside a style of authentic storytelling which audiences will remember. Her work is rooted in representing and documenting unique stories with care and honesty, inspired by her own upbringing. She is aiming to create culturally resonant campaigns that amplify voices and celebrate communities that are yet to be given the spotlight.

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Spencer Dent

Spencer Dent is a London-born, Manchester-based multimedia visual artist and curator. They studied Fine Art Photography at Glasgow School of Art, graduating in 2022. Their work has been exhibited internationally in locations such as Taiwan, Germany and the UK. Their work focuses on the topics of ’genderlessness’, form and the organic environment. They take a multidisciplinary approach, examining these topics through mediums such as photography, weaving, sculpture, printmaking, painting.

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Toni McCoy-Hopwood

A multi-faceted visual storyteller, Toni McCoy-Hopwood crafts imagery with a distinctive visual identity. She creates captivating images, communicating narratives for artists and fashion brands/designers. She primarily focuses on photography and creative direction, which encompasses conceptual, editorial, documentary and portraiture styles. The next stage of Toni’s creative journey is showcasing her own experiences within her work.

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Yaroslav Prytula

Yaroslav Prytula is a Ukrainian-born, Manchester-based visual artist and photographer. His practice grew out of fashion and now focuses on work shaped by lived experience and memory. He works across photography, moving image and 3D, creating images that treat time as a material and a subject. His work questions the reliability of what we see, focusing on how reality is constructed, perceived and constantly redefined.

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