Idil Sukan

About Idil Sukan

Idil Sukan works as publicity and editorial art director and portrait photographer across the entertainment scene in comedy, music, film, and theatre, in her role as Creative Director of West London creative agency Draw HQ. Idil’s work is at the intersect between fine art and commercial portraiture. Her photos are regularly seen across the UK press, album covers and sleeves and book covers, most recently her portrait was the cover image of Paul Merton’s autobiography. Idil's portrait of Celia Imrie was recently selected by the National Portrait Gallery for formal acquisition. Idil is interested in different identities within one individual and the gaps between them - how we choose to portray ourselves, how our identity is shaped by a series of curated depictions of ourselves (photographs in social media, in the press, on our personal websites) in contrast to how we unwittingly come across to others. The different contextual identities we develop, socially, at work, or in photographs - and for a comedian, around which her upcoming exhibition, This Comedian, is based, the identity on stage that can simultaneously be confessional yet carefully cultivated.