After a successful sold-out run, 13-15 November. Portraits: London by Jack Davison is back in stock.
13-15 November. Portraits: London follows a project conceived in response to Davison’s perceived lack of portraiture in his practice. To rectify, he set out to document as many faces as possible, using a simple, stark and pared-down style. In celebration of Davison's release, and portrait photography more generally, we have gathered a list of highlights from the PKB catalogue.
People and Portraits: Tender, Juggling is Easy, Stella Honey, A Bowl of Tears to Drink
Peggy Nolan’s Juggling is Easy is a tender and sometimes chaotic view into the artist's family life. In contrast to Nolan's documentation of a still-growing family, Reference Press’ Stella Honey, featuring the photography of Tatia Franchetti Twombly reactivates a family archive to bring the life and work of Franchetti Twombly back into the fore.
Other titles focus on the representation of hidden and interior lives. In Tender, Carla Williams studies the body in refined and intimate detail- almost detailed enough to anonymise it- and Suzie Howell’s A Bowl of Tears to Drink surveys the lives of Nuns at an Anglican convent in South Wales as part of a long-term collaboration between the photographer and the sisters of Tymawr.
Places and Spaces: 1990 Westwood Blvd, Venezuelan Youth, Strawberry Blue, Hotshoe
Many artists focus on bodies of work with a strong sense of place. Hotshoe issue 215 is all about the under-explored space of the film set, Strawberry Blue is a vividly-coloured collection of portraits from Marinos Tsagkarakis’ wanderings around his local park, and both 1990 Westwood Blvd, by Yann Faucher & Adam Winder and Venezuelan Youth, by Silvana Trevale understand different aspects of young-adulthood through the lens of charged and specific places.
Traces and In-Between Worlds: Tokyo Fishgraphs II, Cruising Archaeology II: Eurotrash
Finally, photographs need not feature a visible human subject to paint a picture. Traces of human interventions prevail in Naohiro Harada’s Tokyo Fishgraphs II, a series of living collages of fish and everyday objects paired with historical Ukiyo-e prints by Utagawa Hiroshige. Cruising Archaeology II: Eurotrash also traces collisions between the natural world and manmade objects, as Jack Scollard collects and archives items left behind in cruising sites, forming a portrait of the communities who gather there.
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