Do you ever wonder how foreign visitors to Britain view the country and its inhabitants? How do we appear and what do they make of our ways and customs. Do we appear familiar to the outsider’s eye or are we strange and peculiar? Bringing together a stellar cast of 23 international renewed photographers, including greats Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank, and featuring previously unseen work, a new photography exhibition at London’s Barbican Centre, seeks to address these very questions by focusing on both the mundane, and eccentric aspects of life in Britain. So not too surprisingly rain sodden sooty pavements, derelict housing estates, and the bright lights of London as well as decaying northern towns are all on display here. But what makes this exhibition unique and the photographs on display utterly compelling is the story they tell about Britain and its changing cultural, social and political identity. The earliest images in the exhibition date from the early nineteen-thirties, and the most recent are from 2014. So as you wander around the exhibition you see desolate post-war Britain merge into the spirited 1960s with its mini skirts, nudity, student protests and optimism. The rigidity of the British […]
We first discovered photographer Gerrard Gethings through his adorable Instagram feed, filled with pics of his dog, Baxter, and son, Jarvis. So when we discovered his back cat(dog)alogue and his plans to photograph every breed of dog, we just had to find out more… If you could only photograph one subject for the rest of your life, what would you choose? A smart subject would be Caribbean landscapes or the interiors of yachts. Something luxurious. But if I really had to choose something It would probably be dogs. Perhaps not the most unexpected answer for someone in my line of work but I never tire of them. I always look forward to work when it’s a dog day. My own dog, Baxter comes along with me and for him it’s a fun day out. He can be a little distracting sometimes, and on occasion has been banished for disrupting the shoot, but he is always welcome. For The Company of Dogs portrait exhibition you photographed celebrities with their pooch pals. Who was the nicest celebrity? And which celeb had the coolest dog? You tend to find that most people behave really well around dogs. I have photographed people over […]
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