Utterly brilliant and exciting editorial photography from Anna Victoria Best

Let’s get this straight, Anna Victoria Best’s work is maybe some of the most exciting photography I’ve ever seen. That may sound like a total exaggeration but it’s true – it is not often that someone’s work is so consistently brilliant throughout an entire portfolio, or that a few simple portraits can hold such a huge amount of power. If I wasn’t taken with the photos of Ashley Williams (which I was, a lot) then the fashion editorial shoot for Varon was like the photographic equivalent of pudding. You can almost hear those shoes squeaking on the lino as they do the Twist.

There’s so much confidence and fun, mixed with style and intelligence – it’s like each project gets better and better. Brockwell – a shoot of some handsome lads in, I assume, Brockwell Park is so much more a portrait of London than any photos of red phone boxes or the Shard ever could be. Anna Victoria Best is already pretty big, but with the fizzing youth-factor of Corinne Day (particularly in Maddie) and the simple-but-effective streak of Annie Leibovitz, she’s not gonna stop until she reaches the top – and I for one look forward to witnessing that journey.