Julien Martinez Leclerc’s year has been one to remember. Graduating from London College of Communication in 2017, he signed with Mini Title agency and has since produced memorable editorials for a dazzling array of titles including Vogue Italia, Arena Homme+, Pop Magazine, Luncheon Magazine, Dazed, AnOther Magazine, Another Man, Buffalo Zine, and L’Uomo Vogue, as well as commercial ­projects for Helmut Lang, Hermès and ­Bottega Veneta. It is the industry debut that most new photographers could only dream of, and yet Martinez Leclerc has a pragmatic point of view on what’s to come.

He has an imaginative and often dramatic visual style, with rich geometric black-and-white compositions and a knowing nod to some of the greats of the medium, including the otherworldly, wide-angled distortion of Bill Brandt, the characters of Josef Koudelka and the studio craft of Richard Avedon.

His early work was as unafraid of the grotes­que as it was of elegance, and while his flourishing career as a fashion photographer has forced him to temper that slightly, ­Martinez Leclerc’s editorials are resolutely thoughtful, bold and playful, and offer an ­altogether different approach to fashion photography.