Sotheby’s head of photographs chooses her favourite image from Photo London.

MR PORTER has teamed up with Photo London to ask some experts from the world of photography – as well as some enthusiasts from our own team – to select their favourite image from the fair. Read about the photograph chosen by Ms Brandei Estes, head of Sotheby’s photographs department, below.

Ms Estes, who runs the photography department at art auctioneers Sotheby’s, selects an image by Mr Erik Madigan Heck, the 34-year-old photographer from rural Minnesota who has risen to become a celebrated and respected fashion photographer.

“I stopped buying fashion magazines almost 20 years ago,” says Ms Estes. “I felt they did terrible things for women’s self-esteem and confidence. But Erik Madigan Heck is different. It’s rare to get a eureka moment in photography, but Heck’s fashion photographs are painterly and romantic. He is one of the artists today capable of making colour the protagonist, as Matisse did.”

Photo London is at Somerset House from 17 to 20 May