TYLER UDALL – BOYS

Posted on 2015-05-04

As an emerging photographer, Tyler Udall, 34, has already made a big impact in the world of photography. In his four short years as a photographer he has shot for several prolific fashion and art magazines, published a sold-out book of his haunting imagery, and had his debut exhibition in London (2013). His images are reminiscent of other great fine-art photographers Juergen Teller and Ryan McGinley

Based in London in the early 2000’s, Tyler Udall was Senior Fashion Editor at Dazed & Confused, Another, and Another Man and was involved in creating iconic covers of Kate Moss, Kirsten Dunst, Tilda Swinton and Nathalie Portman. He returned to New York to take up the role of Creative Director for the agency ‘Fred and Associates’, where he teamed up legendary fashion greats with world leading artists. He is currently based in Vancouver as Fashion Director at the Blanche Macdonald Centre – Canada’s top fashion school.

Talking about his photographs Udall said: 
”Photos are meant to be a kind of diary for me. It’s a record of the people and places in my life and how I see them. I suppose I want to present a body of deeply honest memories, often times through distortion. Everyone I photograph is very near and dear to me for one reason or another.”

Exhibition runs through to June 7th, 2015

The Little Black Gallery
13A Park Walk
London
SW10 0AJ

www.thelittleblackgallery.com

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JUERGEN TELLER & XIANG JING

Posted on 2015-05-04

Works by Juergen Teller (b. 1964, Erlangen, Germany) and Xiang Jing (b. 1968, Beijing, China), juxtapose and subsequently explore disparate expressions of desire. While Teller’s photographs are laden with overt references to human sexuality and desire, Xiang Jing strips such notions from her sculptures of female bodies.

In Teller’s photographs of chef Antonio Guida’s extravagant menu at Hotel Il Pellicano on the Tuscan coast in Porto Ercole, Italy, the glistening, candy-colored dishes conjure a level of fetishized decadence bordering on the grotesque.

Xiang Jing’s approach to her hyper-realistic sculptures of nude female figures presents a way for her to circumvent the traditional notions of the male gaze that construes a woman’s body as an object of desire. The nude and often hairless figures rendered in fiberglass or marble are stripped of the overtly sexualized markers of the female form, and are personally representative, for the artist, of a pure, virginal state of being that is unaffected by patriarchal constructions.

Opposite – Food No.23, Hotel Il Pellicano 2010, 2010

Exhibition runs from May 21st to June 27th, 2015

Lehmann Maupin
407 Pedder Building
12 Pedder Street
Central, Hong Kong

www.lehmannmaupin.com

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PHOTO LONDON

Posted on 2015-05-04

With the generous support of the LUMA Foundation, Photo London has commissioned four exhibitions at Somerset House to open concurrently with the fair this May: Beneath the Surface, some 200 rarely-shown photographic works from the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Photographs Collection; previously unseen large-format platinum prints from Sebastião Salgado’s Genesis series; the first UK exhibition of Iranian photographer Kāveh Golestān’s Prostitute series and The Teaser, a public lightbox installation to be shown in the courtyard produced by Rut Blees Luxemburg in collaboration with Alexander García Düttmann and Nuno Salgado.

Programmed in spaces ranging from cafés to lecture theatres around the site and beyond, Photo London’s lively talks and lectures programme, curated by Professor Francis Hodgson, will feature some two dozen luminaries from the field, including Don McCullin, Sebastião Salgado, Susan Derges, Todd Hido, Mitch Epstein, Rineke Djkstra, Rankin and Stephen Shore. The programme will also carry a special focus on collecting photography and the issues surrounding it, whether for the individual collector, corporations or major cultural institutions.

Celebrating London’s vibrant music scene, the Deadhouse space beneath the courtyard will host four evening events as part of the public programme, in which music photography will be matched to live DJ sets. This programme will include collaborations with YoYo, Just Jam and Rinse FM with imagery from Beth Lesser and disco photographer Bill Bernstein.

Photo London runs from May 21st – 24th, 2015

TICKET PRICES
Adult Day Ticket (over 17): £20
Child (4 – 16): £14
Concession: £17
Family Ticket (2 Adults, 2 Kids): £52
Sat and Sun Entry: £29
Groups 10+: £18.20 each

Somerset House
Strand
London
WC2R 1LA

www.somersethouse.org.uk

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