This March, we are excited to be exhibiting for the first time at MIA Photo Fair in Milan with a special presentation of works by leading contemporary artists as well as a range of important vintage prints:
Nobuyoshi Araki | Peter Beard | Albarrán Cabrera | Siân Davey
Nobuyoshi Araki | Peter Beard | Albarrán Cabrera | Siân Davey
Eamonn Doyle | Lee Friedlander | Ori Gersht | Hiroshi Hamaya
Kikuji Kawada | Jacques Henri Lartigue | Deborah Turbeville
Tim Walker | Harley Weir | Brett Weston | Edward Weston
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Nobuyoshi Araki Dead Reality, 1997
Silver gelatin print, printed 2024, Signed verso, Image size: 38.5 x 57.8 cmNobuyoshi Araki is arguably the most widely recognized and controversial Japanese photographer active today. Born in Tokyo, where he continues to live and work, Araki rapidly attained celebrity status through his prolific and provocative output, which includes a diverse offering of photobooks, films, publications and exhibitions. As he embarks upon his eighth decade in 2020, his work continues to intrigue and astonish audiences across the world. -
Peter Beard Lake Rudolf diptych, 1965
Signed and variously inscribed by the artist with paint and ink. Two silver gelatin prints floated in a handmade frame with a canvas matt. Paper size: 21.9 x 16.3 cmPhotographer, writer, diarist, anthropologist, historian and socialite. A man of extremes, excesses, and possible contradictions, Beard led the kind of wild, rugged life fictionalized by writers such as Hemingway. -
Albarrán Cabrera, The Indestructible, #70010, 2016
Signed, titled, dated and editioned verso. Pigment print on cotton paper with gold leaf. Paper size: 77 x 51.7 cmAlbarrán Cabrera are the contemporary photographers Anna Cabrera and Angel Albarrán who work together as a collaborative duo based in Barcelona.The question running like a thread throughout their work is how images trigger individual memories in the viewer. Depending on their social and cultural backgrounds and on their personal experience, viewers will perceive images in completely different ways. Albarrán Cabrera are interested in subjects such as time, reality, existence, identity and empathy, but what they find the most fascinating is the relation between them. These relations are difficult to explain by means of words and that is why they rely on images. -
Siân Davey, The Garden II, 2021
C-print on Fuji Maxima paper. Paper size: 80 x 96 cmAt the start of 2021, Siân Davey and her son Luke decided to rewild the abandoned land behind her home and create a garden. Working through a moment of personal crisis, and at a time when the rest of the world was experiencing intense and unprecendented turmoil, the garden developed into a kind of therapeutic space. In the summer, when the seeds had germinated into a mesmeric fields of flowers, she began to take photographs of the people who came to visit.At a time when many were reevaluating their relationship with personal space and freedom, the garden attracted people 'seduced by colour, bees and love' as Davey puts it. She created a devotional space, in which people feel able to express themselves through her photography. The Garden called in the local community, it became a plae to express yearning, joy and connectedness. Everyone who entered had a different story, each unfolding in the garden, becaming a part of it and each other."Everyone has a place in our garden. I am the garden. Those who enter are the garden. Without distinction, without separation."
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The Garden series was shortlisted for the 2023 Prix Pictet, the world’s leading award for photography and sustainability. -
The Garden film by Siân Davey
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In the 21st century we cannot imagine life without our screens. But in the early 1960s, Lee Friedlander was documenting the moment in history when it all began. Travelling across America, he photographed various nondescript television screens he came across in motel rooms. The images document dark, lifeless spaces dominated by glaring screens featuring various icons of popular culture. Friedlander provides unique commentary on 1960s America, which was very much defined by the rise of TV and, inevitably, America’s obsession with pop culture.
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The series New Orders references the fragility and fragmentation of the European Union – by recreating, in three dimensions, individual still-life paintings by Old Master artists Chardin, Zurbarán and Morandi.For Evertime, Gersht commissioned masterfully crafted replicas of the vessels and bottles found in Morandi’s paintings. After carefully arranging and lighting them in a resolved composition, he fired on the ceramics with an air rifle, while simultaneously recording the destruction and fragmentation of the objects with a high-resolution camera. Sequences of images and panoramas relay a cinematic unfolding of destruction and collapse not otherwise visible in our normal experience of events.
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Sarah Moon, Maria Grazia Chiuri, 2017
Signed, titled and editioned verso. Artist’s blind stamp recto. Platinum print Image size: 40 x 50 cmEthereal and elegant, Sarah Moon's photographs are almost abstract in their painterly qualities. Texture, surface, seeing, believing, dreaming; it is difficult to summarise their content without pointing to the evident romantic and melancholic mood that emanates from the work. Moon - who came to prominence in the 1970s, breaks from the traditions of Fashion Photography, choosing instead to investigate a world of her own invention without compromise. -
Tim Walker, Codie Young, Blossom Fantasia, London, 2015
Accompanied by a signed, titled and editioned label. Archival pigment print Image size: 87.8 x 125 cmTim Walker's photographs are nostalgic for an era of innocence and exuberance; youthful imagination and a uniquely British aesthetic. At once modern yet familiar, his world is reminiscent of a childhood spent dressing up in ancient couture, dragging family heirlooms down to the bottom of the garden to furnish tree-lined ballrooms. These memories are retold with a sublimely reminiscent matured eye for drama and intrigue. Walker painstakingly stages each picture in camera, which reinforces the home-spun magic and texture shown in each image.Viewers will be drawn in to meticulously crafted scenes, otherworldly landscapes which reveal Tim's regard for British painters such as Eric Ravilious and Paul Nash. His seductive images demand to be read as more than fashion.- Greville Worthington, a former Turner Prize judge -
It was during the early 1930’s that Brett Weston began photographing the dunes of Oceano, California. This work played a significant role on the rest of his career and he continued to capture the desert. It was in the late 1970’s and 1980’s that he developed the Underwater Nude series, capturing the same shadows and fluidity evident in the desert sand. Often quoting painters as more influential to him than photographers, he maintained a strong sense of design: an inherent ability to reduce his subject to pure form.
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One of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century, Edward Weston is celebrated for making the ordinary look extraordinary — whether a pepper, nude or an egg slicer — the California-based photographer created exquisite, carefully composed images that perfectly embody the principles of Modernism.
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