PHOTO STORIES
"we need a face [?]"
Self-taught photographer Cristina Rizzi Guelfi’s series, "we need a face [?]" makes fun of the obsession with selfies, replacing faces with photographs from US archives from the 1950s and 1960s.
Hidden Portraits
Volker Hermes’ series ‘Hidden Portraits’ played with the idea of covering faces, long before it became necessary to do so. The series gained notoriety last year when it went viral on social media during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Color Line
Terrence Burford-Phearse is an artist, independent curator and writer living in New York. His practice investigates early African American photography and how this relates to the current issues surrounding the Black male body.
A Shaded Path
In his long term project ‘A Shaded Path’, documentary photographer Elliot Verdier tells the story of Kyrgyzstan, a landlocked country in Central Asia. His images capture not only desolate landscapes but also the people, their broken dreams and great aspirations.
Those dreams that do not wake up
Dreams, fear, rage, screams and violence – Italian photographer Giacomo Infantino researched internal mutations and transformations following the lockdown. Through discussions and shared experiences he created essential performances, which have been fabricated in front of the camera.
A Surreal Female Gaze
Photographer Petrina Hicks uses an ensemble of marble props, live animals, taxidermy, fabrics and colourful backgrounds alongside female models to create surrealist portraits. She offers a reflection of primal female identity and a subjugation of the male gaze.
Beauty & Nature
Ziqian’s work is self-portraiture, where she combines her body with plants and mirrors, constantly exploring the balanced state of peaceful coexistence between humans and nature. Her works rarely show her face creating an anonymous body to the viewer.
Color Blocking
Photographer Adam Frint explores the use of colour through found architectural compositions and layered street art. In his series Color Blocking, found graffiti cover-ups interact playfully with forms and shapes he adds to the composition.
Tommy Sussex
London-based photographer Tommy Sussex specialises in medium format film photography. His work attempts to render an individual social reality that carries political weight. Recently, he documented the anti-racism demonstrations in London and the impact of the pandemic in his community.
NEVER SAY DIE
Lockdown in 2020 gave photographer Julio Pardo the chance to create NEVER SAY DIE – a series of books looking back at 12 years of his work. Pictures only relate to each other visually and are put together in no specific order – they might be years and miles apart form each other.
40 Music Venues
For his project ’40 Music Venues’, photographer Alex Amorós photographed music venues across London to highlight the impact the pandemic had not only on the venues but also on the whole entertainment industry.
Quarantine Park
Chicago-based photographer Kambua Chema started to photograph the top floor of a multi-storey car park during lockdown. A few months later she captured what’s happening at ‘Quarantine Park’, as she dubbed the space.
366 Portraits
When London based photographer Jesus Lacalle started his daily portrait project in January, he had no idea how 2020 would turn out and influence his project.
Londoners
‘Londoners’ is a portrait project carried out over three years on the streets of London by photographer Alex Amorós. After observing the diverse people on the streets for a while, he decided it was time to break down boundaries and started taking portraits of them.