The trip to the photographers gallery
Feast for the eyesFeast for the Eyes looks particularly at how food is represented and used in photographic practices and brings together a broad-range of artists all of whom harness the history and popularity of food photography to express wider themes. Crossing public and private realms the works on show evoke deep-seated questions and anxieties about issues such as wealth, poverty, consumption, appetite, tradition, gender, race, desire, pleasure, revulsion and domesticity.
Martin Parr |
Shot in SohoShot in Soho is an original exhibition celebrating Soho’s diverse culture, community and history of creative innovation as well as highlighting its position as a site of resistance.
Through a range of photographs, ephemera and varied presentations, the project reflects the breadth of life in a part of the capital that has always courted controversy and celebrated difference. Kelvin Brodie |
Shapes in Domestic objects
My Living room
Andreas Gurskey
Andreas Gursky is perhaps the best-known member of a loose association of German artists under the tutelage of the conceptual photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher. Gursky’s photos feature scenes involving enormous amounts of information. Subtly enhancing and adjusting the structure of the overwhelming visual settings, Gursky allows viewers to assimilate and consume more than we are usually able with our eyes alone. His images are symbols of both contemporary life and the classical need for order.
He is less known for taking photos around a room
He is less known for taking photos around a room
My Kitchen
Dan Tobin Smith
Dan Tobin Smith has over a decade of experience working as a photographer specialising in installation and still life photography. His work has been commissioned by clients across the fields of fashion, music, publishing and advertising — from Numéro, Wallpaper*, Acne Paper and Document Journal; to Absolut, Alexander McQueen, Nike, Louis Vuitton and Johnnie Walker.
My Bathroom
Uta Barth
Born in Berlin in 1958, Uta Barth moved to the United States as a teenager. She received a BA from the University of California at Davis in 1982 and an MFA from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1985. The predominant theme of her early photography was the gaze, as in a series of self-portraits shown at the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art in 1987. In the 1988–89 series Untitled, she began to explore questions of photographic abstraction, mixing painting reminiscent of Op art and preexisting photographs into her images.
Form over function
Jan Groover
Jan Groover (American, 1943 – 2011) was among the very best still life photographers since the medium’s invention. Her Kitchen Still Life photographs were first exhibited at Sonnabend Gallery. She received a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1979. In 1987, Groover had a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art which subsequently toured the United States. Her work has been exhibited and included in the collections of most major museums worldwide, and continues to influence a new generation of artists. Groover moved to France in 1991, with her husband, the painter Bruce Boice, who still lives there.