CANDELAR FEATURE: JUNE
JUNE 2026: Michael Young
June Candelar page featuring Young’s image, Double Take
Michael Young is a lens-based artist whose work explores themes of masculinity, personal identity, community, and memory. He has been named a Top 50 artist in Photolucida’s Critical Mass (2023, 2021), a Top 10 winner of LensCulture Critics’ Choice, and a winner of Feature Shoot’s Emerging Photography Award.
Select shows include Behind Closed Doors at The Ravestijn Gallery (NL), Sharp Cuts: Queer Collage at CLAMP in New York City, CURRENTS 2023 at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, a solo exhibition at the Rochester Museum of Art, Together Alone at Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Candela Gallery’s Unbound12! and Una historia (no) tan rosa at Archivo Arkhé in Madrid. Young’s images have also been exhibited in Portfolio 2023 at Atlanta Photography Group, Art of Pride at Southeast Center for Photography, Bodily Autonomies at Queer Festival Heidelberg, Center Forward 2022 at Center for Fine Art Photography, and Context 2022 at Filter Photo.
Young’s work has been published in Deeply Human (Verlag Kettler, Germany), both of GUP’s Fresh Eyes 2023 books (Documentary and Conceptual). His work has also been featured in Musée Magazine, Fisheye, EXIT, Float zines, and two issues of Der Greif. Online articles, interviews, and shows include LensCulture, Humble Arts Foundation, Fraction Magazine, Talking Photographs, The Guardian, Float, and F-Stop Magazine.
Introduced in 2022, the Candelar is a limited edition set of fine art photographic calendar cards juried through a free one-week open call. The Candelar card sets, printed in-house on Hahnemühle paper by Candela Photographic Arts, can be displayed pinned, clipped, framed, or propped.
