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All White Horses Standing in Calm Water, Equestrian, Meditative
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Dreamland"
This best-selling image features the white horses of Camargue congregating in the pools of water that form in their home in the South of France.
The print series Band ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Buddy Rich (1969) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Fancy Heel (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by David Redfern)
Buddy Rich, November 1969 Ronnie Scotts
Additional Information:
Unframed
Paper...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Outdoor Dining (1956) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Outdoor Dining (1956) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Diners at an outdoor restaurant,
San Diego, California, October 1956.
Additional Information:
Unfram...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Skiing Princess (1964) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Skiing Princess (1964) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Princess Luciana Pignatelli on a skiing holiday in Lech,
Austria.
Additional Information:
Unframed
...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Pink Accessory (1955) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pink Accessory (1955) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Film star Joan Collins in a pink and white bedroom with an accessory pi...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Sundowners (1958) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sundowners (1958) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Two bikini-clad holidaymakers enjoy a glass of wine outside the Carlton Hotel,
Cannes, 1958.
Additional In...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc (1976) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc (1976) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Guests standing by a white Rolls-Royce convertible courtesy car at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc,
A...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
In Capri (1958) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
In Capri (1958) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Robert Hornstein, the artist Novella Parigini and Prince Dado Ruspoli on Capr...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Jean Serpieri (1961) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Jean Serpieri (1961) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Madame Jean Serpieri sits in the ballroom of the Tour La Reine near Athens, wearing a gown that belonged...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
New England Skiing (1955) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing (1955) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Two women recline on improvised sunbeds in Cranmore Mountain,
New Hampshire, circa 1955.
Addition...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Marsha Gayle (1957) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marsha Gayle (1957) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Marsha Gayle of Paris enjoys a deserted beach near Calabash Bay, Andros,
Bah...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Marina (1960) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marina (1960) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
A large marina complex,
circa 1960.
Additional Information:
Unframed
Paper Size: 40x40''
Printed Later
Lim...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
The KLF - Signed Limited Edition Oversize Print (1997)
Located in London, GB
The KLF - Signed Limited Edition Oversize Print
September 17 1997 London
Personal Work
(photo Kevin Westenberg)
NB All prints are signed and numbered by the artist.
Unframed
Signed and numbered by the artist.
Edition limited to 10 only this size
Printed 2020
This size image: 30 x 40" / 76 x 101 cm
About the image:
The KLF were a British electronic band formed in London in 1987. Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty...
Category
1990s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Colin Tennant (1973) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Colin Tennant (1973) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner, on the island of Mustique, which he owns privately,
March 1973.
Addition...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Gerry Cranham 'Sundial Hat' Limited Edition Photograph 30x40
Located in San Rafael, CA
British dancer Rosemary Andree wearing a sunhat with a clock face design on a summer's day at the Roehampton Pool. (Photo by Gerry Cranham/Getty Images)
As an authorized Getty Image...
Category
1950s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Underworld - Signed Limited Edition Print (1993)
Located in London, GB
Underworld - Signed Limited Edition Print
December 15 1993
London Melody Maker
(photo Kevin Westenberg)
NB All prints are signed and numbered by the artist.
Unframed
Signed ...
Category
1990s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
David Gilmour - Signed Limited Edition Oversized Print
Located in London, GB
David Gilmour - Signed Limited Edition Oversized Print
David Gilmour, singer and guitarist of Pink Floyd, poses with his iconic black Fender Strat.
Album...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Erykah Badu - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Erykah Badu - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
American singer-songwriter Erykah Badu, the Queen of Neo-Soul, photographed for the cover of Musik Mag...
Category
1990s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Black and White
U2 Bono 2005 - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Bono - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Bono, lead singer of Irish band U2, reaches to grasp a fan's hand at a concert in Phoenix, Arizona.
Cover shoot for Mojo Magazine, Phoen...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Sean Penn - Signed Limited Edition Oversized Print (2001)
Located in London, GB
Sean Penn - Signed Limited Edition Oversized Print
Studio Magazine
May 15, 2001
Cannes, France
(photo Kevin Westenberg)
NB All prints are signed and n...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Laura And Naomi - Signed Limited Edition Oversized Print (2001)
Located in London, GB
Michael Stipe - Signed Limited Edition Oversized Print
Studio Magazine
May 16, 2001
Cannes, France.
(photo Kevin Westenberg)
NB All prints are signed and numbered by the artist.
Unframed
Signed and numbered by the artist.
Edition limited to 10 only this size
Printed 2020
This size image: 30 x 40" / 76 x 101 cm
About the image:
Laura Elena, Countess von Bismarck-Schönhausen, commonly known as Laura Harring, is a Mexican-American actress. In 1985, Harring became the first Hispanic woman crowned Miss USA. She later began her acting career in television and film.
Naomi Ellen Watts is a British actress and film producer. She made her film debut in the Australian drama For Love Alone and then appeared in the Australian television series Hey Dad..!, Brides of Christ, Home and Away, and the film Flirting.
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Signed and numbered edition of 25. cost $ 2,950
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24 x 30"
Signed and numbered edition of 25. cost $ 3,375
Size 4.
30 x 40"
Signed and numbered edition of 10 (+2 a/p). cost $ 5,605
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40 x 60"
Signed and numbered edition of 3 (1 a/p). cost $ 18,500
About the artist :
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists and movie stars for over 25 years. His technique of lighting, colour and composition has helped to produce his own unique visual style.
Shortly after receiving an Architecture degree he moved to London where he’s been based since 1983. Westenberg is self-taught and learned his trade working for the UK inkies “New Musical Express” and “Melody Maker” mainly throughout the late 80’s and 90’s documenting amongst others all the UK ‘Britpop’ bands.
The breakthrough came in 1993-1994 with the release of Sting’s Ten Summoner’s Tales and Mary J Blige’s Share My World. These two album covers changed the perception of the work worldwide and thus began a run of 20 years of commissions and choice opportunities.
For the last 25 years, his musical heritage includes portraits of Radiohead, Thom Yorke, Coldplay, White Stripes, Jane's Addiction, Sting, Bjork, Nirvana, Jeff Buckley, Luther Vandross, Nine Inch Nails, Stone Roses, The Pixies, Paul Weller, Rufus Wainwright, Michael Stipe, U2, Mary J. Blige, R.E.M., Black Sabbath, Massive Attack, BB King, The Rolling Stones, PJ Harvey, Marilyn Manson, Pete Doherty, Oasis, Soundgarden, Jake Bugg, and Bon Jovi among many others. Also included are 100’s of albums, singles, magazine & book covers from around the world. He’s also been chosen as official photographer for the LIVE 8 Hyde Park event in 2005 and for Led Zeppelin reunion concert at the 02 Arena, London.
The work & interest also include a wide range of artists portraits beyond the music world. David Lynch, Paul Auster, The Coen Brothers, Rupert Friend, Sir Tom Stoppard, Orla Kiely...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Marietine Birnie, Blue Lagoon, Malta, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Marietine Birnie snorkeling at the Blue Lagoon, Kemmuna (Comina), Malta, July 1959.
This ...
Category
1950s American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Amuria by John Kenny. Photographic Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
A portrait of a beautiful young Turkana woman photographed on the banks of Lake Turkana.
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Naiio by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
This young Turkana girl in northern Kenya wears a goatskin known as an ‘egolas’. In traditional Turkana communities the inhabitants are excellent at making garments from animals, and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Kolode by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Rendille girl in Kenya
A return to Kenya. On this trip John took a different approach to lighting. Building makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets held up by four ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Ikulme by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
This elder from a Rendille community in northern Kenya wears a typical bright coloured fabric wrapped around his body. It is essentially the same as the blanket-like ‘shuka’ worn by ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Inchoy by John Kenny. Photographic Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
The steady gaze of Inchoy and child.
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to captur...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
$1,475 Sale Price
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The San Man by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2012
Located in Coltishall, GB
A picture of joy. KhoiSan bushman from Namibia
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natural light and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Fire of the Himba by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2010
Located in Coltishall, GB
Himba women have a devotion to red ochre powder and butter fat that exceeds even the Hamer of the Omo valley in Ethiopia. They apply huge amounts to almost their entire bodies inclu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Lion of the Kalahari by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2010
Located in Coltishall, GB
This Himba elder was at a huge funeral gathering in the western Kaokoland between the largest town of the area, Opuwo, and Otjitando. The area was flat, and very dry, with a strong wind constantly whipping up fine, dry dust and flinging it across the landscape.
The funeral was quite different in feel. People were engaged in deep, animated conversations, they smiled and laughed a lot in more of a festival atmosphere than one of sadness. Long parted friends came together to celebrate the life of the man who had passed – a man of huge popularity and social status. The funeral was to last a week and the crowd was swelling each day. There were huge animal carcasses being cooked on fires tended carefully by younger Himba men.
I watched from a distance, concerned at the need for privacy at such a gathering, but a number of groups waved for me to come over. The elder maintained a natural authority within his small circle, and I noticed that others spoke to him with deference. In the past this man had hunted and killed desert lions. He then pointed to a large gouge on the man’s thigh – the results of one of these encounters.
The lower necklace on this man are made of the soft ears of lambs. The small metal spear...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Assaita by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2008
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young man of the Afar culture in the town of Assaita. Many men spend the afternoons in loud debate in mud buildings and courtyards. Often with fistfuls of miraa leaves (ghat) and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Himba Child l by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2010
Located in Coltishall, GB
In the far north of Namibia as you head towards the border with Angola at Epupa Falls, barely visible tracks radiate off the main dirt road into bush and disappear across sandy, dry river beds. Arid conditions and past hunting have left few animals and the barren terrain create few obvious landmarks, but the Himba are able to navigate easily.
Himba villages have a circular boundary around the kraal (village) staked out by tall, tightly packed branches and a single route in and out. The outer wall surrounds a number of huts, each inhabited by one of the man’s wives and her children. Sometimes there are 6, 7 or more wives in the Himba kraal, and a lot of children!
When they are young, Himba children of both sexes dress and look remarkably similar. Often the only way to differentiate is by the number of thick hair strands...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Malasso by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2009
Located in Coltishall, GB
I came across the intense stare of this Pokot lady at a Friday market on a mountain summit in northern Kenya; it was the same market where I photographed a Samburu goat herder wrappe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
'Head of David Bowie' Limited Edition Photographic Print by Getty, 30x40
Located in San Rafael, CA
British pop singer David Bowie in concert at Earl's Court, London during his 1978 world tour. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)
As an authorized Getty Images Gallery partner,...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Donald Trump
Located in New York, NY
Donald Trump, 1992
Archival pigment print
36 x 36 inches
edition of 10
William Coupon is an American photographer, born in New York City, known principally for his formal painterly ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
James Sparshatt La Dama Del Callejón Large Print on Brushed Aluminium, 2001
Located in Coltishall, GB
Every Sunday afro-Cubans gather in the Callejon de Hammel to play the drums and sing the harsh vocals of rumba.
The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cuban...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Metal
El Campesino by James Sparshatt. 36" x 36" photograph on Brushed Aluminiu
Located in Coltishall, GB
The Viñales valley in western Cuba is a place of stunning beauty where perhaps the finest tobacco leaves in the world are grown. The tobacco farmers live hard but proud lives.
The S...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Metal
El Sentinel by James Sparshatt. 36" x 36" Photograph on Brushed Aluminium
Located in Coltishall, GB
A man of gentlemany demeanour, content with his cigar. A sentinel watching the world pass amidst the endless sugar cane country of central Cuba.
The Spirit of the Revolution serie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Metal
Portrait of BB KING - signed Limited Edition Oversize print
Located in London, GB
Portrait of BB KING - signed Limited Edition Oversize print
BB KING JUN 12 2008 VICKSBURG MISSISSIPPI ALBUM COVER SHOOT.
Exquisite print of the Rhythm & Blues legend that is BB King.
unframed
signed and numbered by the artist.
limited to 10 only this size.
About the artist :
Kevin Westenberg is famed -
for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists and movie stars for over 25 years. His technique of lighting, colour and composition has helped to produce his own unique visual style.
Shortly after receiving an Architecture degree he moved to London where he’s been based since 1983. Westenberg is self-taught and learned his trade working for the UK inkies “New Musical Express” and “Melody Maker” mainly throughout the late 80’s and 90’s documenting amongst others all the UK ‘Britpop’ bands.
The breakthrough came in 1993-1994 with the release of Sting’s Ten Summoner’s Tales and Mary J Blige’s Share My World. These two album covers changed the perception of the work worldwide and thus began a run of 20 years of commissions and choice opportunities.
For the last 25 years, his musical heritage includes portraits of Radiohead, Thom Yorke, Coldplay, White Stripes, Jane's Addiction, Sting, Bjork, Nirvana, Jeff Buckley, Luther Vandross, Nine Inch Nails, Stone Roses, The Pixies, Paul Weller, Rufus Wainwright, Michael Stipe, U2, Mary J. Blige, R.E.M., Black Sabbath, Massive Attack, BB King, The Rolling Stones, PJ Harvey, Marilyn Manson, Pete Doherty, Oasis, Soundgarden, Jake Bugg, and Bon Jovi among many others. Also included are 100’s of albums, singles, magazine & book covers from around the world. He’s also been chosen as official photographer for the LIVE 8 Hyde Park event in 2005 and for Led Zeppelin reunion concert at the 02 Arena, London.
The work & interest also include a wide range of artists portraits beyond the music world. David Lynch, Paul Auster, The Coen Brothers, Rupert Friend, Sir Tom Stoppard, Orla Kiely...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons, Sugarbush Ice Bar
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Ski Fashion At Sugarbush
1960
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
American socialite and fashion writer Nan Kempner (1930 - 2005) at the Sugarbush Mountain ski resort in ...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Jerry Hall takes a call in the pool
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
Jerry Hall takes a call in the pool
1975
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso
Caption: American model Jerry Hall is photographed on the phone ...
Category
1980s Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print
La Vieja Guajira by James Sparshatt. 36 x 36” photo printed direct on aluminium
Located in Coltishall, GB
The old country girl from the Escambray mountains. I was hiking in the mountains, close to Trinidad, when I met the family. They invited me in and we chatted about our different live...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Metal
Hombre De Media Luna by James Sparshatt. Smiling man smoking a Cuban cigar
Located in Coltishall, GB
It was almost 3am and we were still waiting for the band to start to play. I stood on the open air stage buffeted by the winds as the group and their roadies struggled to set up. Th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Metal
La Romera by James Sparshatt. 36 x 36” photograph printed direct on aluminium
Located in Coltishall, GB
On a musical and pleasure seeking pilgrimage… during Las Romerias de Mayo festival in Holguín.
The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Metal
El Finquero by James Sparshatt. 36 x 36” photograph printed direct on aluminium.
Located in Coltishall, GB
A tobacco farmer from the Viñales valley.
The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dramatic changes of 1959 as young adults. They have a s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Metal
El Revolucionario by James Sparshatt. 36 x 36” photo printed direct on aluminium
Located in Coltishall, GB
El revolucionario – a gentleman of Old Havana.
The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dramatic changes of 1959 as young adults. They hav...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Metal
El Tabaquero by James Sparshatt. 36 x 36” photo printed direct on aluminium
Located in Coltishall, GB
A tobacco farmer from the Viñales valley in Cuba.
In 1959 residents of Cuba were faced with a stark choice: stay on their island home and live as a “revolutionary” or leave. Some believed wholeheartedly in the new beginning, some were willing to be carried along and some abandoned everything they had and chose exile.
The Buena Vista social club...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Metal
WOMEN OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES Large Photo NETA
Located in Surfside, FL
"Women of the IDF" Large Exhibition color Photograph
30 x 40 inches, mounted on masonite and laminated.
Edition of 4 + 2 artists proof. minor dings and bumps to edges Born in Tehran, Iran, Ashkan Sahihi moved with his family to West Germany at the age of seven. Although he began taking photographs as a teenager, Sahihi traces the beginning of his professional trajectory to New York in 1987, a thriving “pop culture metropolis” where he could do the kind of photography work that he wanted to do, exploring the underbelly of the society around him. Taking assignments from German publications such as the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazine, Der Spiegel, Dummy and GEO, he photographed subjects like prisoners on death row, players in the hip-hop scene, and the downtown art scene of New York. Neither black nor white, an insider among outsiders, he found himself able to navigate spaces and dynamics that others might have had difficulty entering. He considered this both a privilege and an obligation – to visit these places and tell these stories. His success led to commissions from American publications as well, including the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and Vogue.
Put off by the limitations of photojournalism (the expectation that he would illustrate the writer’s perspective rather than author a narrative of his own), Sahihi began to embark on independent, highly compact conceptual series. His main goal in these series has been to drive forward public discourse on topics he believes have not provoked enough or the right kind of discussion: drugs, gender in the media, women in the military, etc. His portraits draw on a familiar visual language – often seated subjects before a neutral backdrop – but push the viewer to feel and think about entirely new things. Although he constantly challenges the comfort level of both the viewer and the subject, Sahihi never removes himself from the line of fire; all of his work requires the artist to immerse himself in uncomfortable situations and challenge his own emotional fortitude.
Photographic Series
In the “Face Series”, latex-gloved hands manipulate the subjects’ features, stretching, pushing, squeezing, pinching at the whim of external direction – from the artist? The customer? The public? The “Hypnosis Series” comprises 8 portraits of hypnotized subjects each experiencing a single emotion, e.g. helplessness, withholding/anger, or regret. In a society that rewards the suppression of such naked emotion, the purity of these depictions is arresting.
In 2006, Sahihi photographed himself in the homes and with the families of six ex-girlfriends and one ex-wife, imposing himself more or less awkwardly on the constellations that emerged after he had exited their lives (“Exes Series”).
For Sahihi’s most well-known work, the “Drug Series,” he convinced 11 non–drug users to consume a particular drug, then took their portraits over the course of their trips. The series was born out of Sahihi’s frustration with the hypocrisy of the political conversation about drugs in the United States. “By attempting to present an objective image of drug use, the artist addresses the cultural politics that allow our society to simultaneously glamorize the ‘drug look’ in fashion magazines and the entertainment industry and meanwhile turn a blind eye to the complicated, and vast, problem of drug abuse.” Sahihi has exhibited this series at MoMA PS1 New York in 2001, in Dresden in 2008, and alongside his installation “100 Million in Ready Cash."
Sahihi’s dense explorations through small photographic series include “Women of the IDF," portraits of female Israeli soldiers...
Category
Early 2000s Portrait Photography
Materials
Masonite
Lady of the Arbore by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait with Acrylic Face-Mount
By John Kenny 1
Located in Coltishall, GB
The jewellery of the Arbore is among the most colourful in the whole of the Omo Valley: they are experts in recycling materials for beauty, particularly metal watch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Amuria by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
A portrait of a beautiful young Turkana woman photographed on the banks of Lake Turkana.
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Kedenye by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
Elder with a tale to tell
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to capture a remarka...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Gumatoo by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
John Kenny met this Gabbra woman on the road to Kolal in Northern Kenya in 2019.
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Lopayok by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young Turkana warrior
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to capture a remarkabl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
$1,743 Sale Price
20% Off
Kolode by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Rendille girl in Kenya
A return to Kenya. On this trip John took a different approach to lighting. Building makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets held up by four ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Lesirte by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Samburu warrior from Kenya
A return to Kenya. On this trip John took a different approach to lighting. Building makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets held up by f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Naiio by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
This young Turkana girl in northern Kenya wears a goatskin known as an ‘egolas’. In traditional Turkana communities the inhabitants are excellent at making garments from animals, and...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Loicherua by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
This warrior, like many of the Samburu, cares intensely about his appearance. There are two giveaway signs beyond the amount of jewellery he wears: a small pink pocket mirror, next t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Eture by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young Rendille girl
A return to Kenya. On this trip John took a different approach to lighting. Building makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets held up by four war...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
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C Print
Ikulme by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
This elder from a Rendille community in northern Kenya wears a typical bright coloured fabric wrapped around his body. It is essentially the same as the blanket-like ‘shuka’ worn by ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
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C Print
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Loile by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
The large circular earplugs worn by this stunning Rendille warrior are made of plastic and sometimes bone. In past times, and very occasionally today, you might see the same plugs ma...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
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C Print
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