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Size: Large
Emon by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
I met Emon in a small Turkana village called ‘Sarima’ in the North of Kenya. It’s a wild place that seems to sit in a wind tunnel that takes its power from the enormous water mass of...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

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C Print

Ekerun by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Turkana elder in Northern Kenya John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to capture a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Himba Siblings by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Himba Siblings in 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 his subjects in their ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Fula Nomad at Golondi by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
The man was sat in the shade during a huge village market in a place called Golondi in Niger. We drank the salty, sweet tea that the nomads of the Sahel and...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Lion of the Kalahari by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait with Acrylic Face-Mount
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 w...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Malasso by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Himba Child l by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
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 ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Mukuru by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
The small settlement of Otjitando in Namibia’s Kaokoland doesn’t seem far off the main gravel road on the map. In reality it is a hellish journey that requires regular running in fro...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Himba Woman by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Himba woman from Northern 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 his subjects i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Himba Child ll by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young Himba child 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 natura...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Ltiriyan by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
I met Ltiriyan at the water wells in Laisamis, part of the Rendille lands of Northern Kenya. He was with nine or ten Rendille warriors relaxing in the heat of the day, and they happily sat around and talked with me through my guide for an hour or so before preparing their camels to head off into the desert again. Ltiriyan was the most outspoken of the young warriors...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Otjitando by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2010
Located in Coltishall, GB
Himba woman 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 his subjects in their d...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Nambuele by John Kenny. 26.5 x 18" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2012
Located in Coltishall, GB
Nambuele illustrates the hair craft of the Mumuhuila of southern Angola, whose women take an obsessive pride in their hairstyle. Although it may change as a girl enters different st...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

At the Heart of Huile by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Young Mumuhuile woman from the Huile region of southern Angola. John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with na...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Capote Cycling, Palm Springs, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons Capote Cycling Slim Aarons Estate Edition 1970: Truman Capote (1924 - 1984) on his bicycle in Palm Springs, California. Author of several novels including 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' which was made into a film. Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Chromogenic Lambda print from the original transparency Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century. The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Photograph is unframed Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp. Collector will get the next number in the edition * We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Getty Images. All photographs are printed and authorized by the Getty Images Gallery, London. Photographs are printed utilizing the original transparency held at the archive source. Internal: Vintage Literary photography, vintage writers, vintage glamour, vintage breakfast...
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1970s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Debbie Harry
Located in New York, NY
Debbie Harry, 1981 Silver gelatin print image size: 36 x 36 inches Signed and numbered edition of 15 William Coupon is an American photographer, born in ...
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1980s 85 New Wave Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

El Caballero by James Sparshatt. 36" x 36" Photo printed direct on Aluminium
Located in Coltishall, GB
The gentleman… a man of calm dignity and endessly kind eyes in Old Havana in 2016. The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dramatic chan...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Metal

Slim Aarons, Hotel Krone, Lech (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Traffic passing by the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960 Slim Aarons Hotel Krone, Lech Chromogenic Lambda print Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your fr...
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1960s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons, Palm Beach Pagoda, Everglades Island (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Three women enjoy the sun in front of the Chinese teahouse on Everglades Island in Palm Beach, Florida, April 1985. The teahouse was designed by Wyeth, King, and Johnson. Slim Aarons Slim Aarons, Palm Beach Pagoda Chromogenic Lambda print Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. 60 x 40 inches $3950 40 x 30 inches $3350 30 x 20 inches $3000 Pictured: Cynthia Eichler (sitting) with Vicky Schaft Bruder (centre) and Cathy Tankoos (Mrs Joseph Tankoos) Undercurrent Projects is proud to offer this vibrant photograph, printed by the Slim Aarons estate. It is part of the estate's only official limited run, of 150. Estate stamp embossed on recto, hand numbered in ink on recto, with certificate of authenticity from the estate (not a secondary gallery licensing from the estate). Increasingly heralded for his influence, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) made a career out of photographing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places." Aarons is known for his iconic images of Hollywood glamour and luxurious people, places and lifestyles. Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Getty Images. All photographs are printed and authorized by the Getty Images Gallery, London. Photographs are printed utilizing the original transparency held at the archive source. Aarons began his career as a combat photographer in World War II. Though he earned a Purple Heart for his service, he declared that combat had taught him that the only beach worth landing on was decorated with beautiful people enjoying themselves in the sun. Slim Aarons is noted for his documentation of the Beautiful People over 50 years, encompassing high society, celebrity, aristocracy, and the jet set. He was born and raised in New York City and New Jersey and later New Hampshire. He took up photography as a teenager. At the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the U. S. Army and was later appointed official photographer at the United States Military Academy at West Point. During World War II he served as an army combat photographer for Yank magazine in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. After the war he became a freelance photojournalist, first based in Hollywood, then Rome, then New York. His photographs appeared in many magazines, including Life, Holiday, Town & Country, Look, Venture, and Travel & Leisure. His first book A Wonderful Time (1974) is considered a classic. Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp. The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Internal: Slim Aarons, Slim Aarons, Palm Beach, Poolside Series, South Florida, Beach Photography, Vintage Palm Beach, Vintage Poolside, Vintage Glamour, Midcentury Photography, Vintage Teahouse, Vintage Everglades...
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1980s American Realist Color Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons 'Swimmer and Sunbather, Tahoe' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An underwater swimmer and a sunbather at the Cal Neva Lodge on the shore of Lake Tahoe, 1959. The Cal Neva resort and casino straddles the border between Nevada and California and th...
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1950s American Realist Color Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons 'Manoir du Coeur Volant, Louveciennes' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Comte de Paris, pretender to the French throne, with his wife the Comtesse and their children at their home, the Manoir du Coeur Volant, Louveciennes, France, 1956, Printed Later...
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1950s American Realist Color Photography

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Lambda

An Intense Encounter by John Kenny - Portrait, C-type Print with Acrylic Face
Located in Coltishall, GB
This Tamberma man is from a small village called Nadoba in Togo, about ten kilometres from the Benin border. The village is renowned for its facial scarification. A fiery wind b...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Slim Aarons, Esther Williams, Poolside (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Swimmer and movie star Esther Williams by the pool in Florida, 1955. Slim Aarons Esther Williams Chromogenic Lambda print Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer. 60 x 40 inches $3950 40 x 30 inches $3350 30 x 20 inches $3000 Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century. The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp. Collector will get the next number in the edition * We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Internal: Slim Aarons, Esther Williams, midcentury modern, Vintage Esther Williams, Vintage Poolside Series, Vintage Movie Stars, Vintage Swimmers...
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1950s American Realist Color Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons, Polo Party, 1981 (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Paul Butler, patriarch of one of America’s foremost polo families, with his son, daughter, grandchildren and son-in-law, Palm Beach, April 1981. Left to right: Adam Butler, Reutie Bu...
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1980s Realist Color Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons, Snorkelling (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1954: Two young women going snorkelling. Slim Aarons Snorkelling Chromogenic Lambda print Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer. 60 x 40 inches $3950 40 x 30 inches $3350 30 x 20 inches $3000 Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer. Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century. The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Photograph is unframed Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp. Collector will get the next number in the edition * We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Internal: Slim Aarons, Snorkelling, Vintage sport, Beach Photography, Vintage Ocean photography, Vintage snorkelling...
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1950s American Realist Color Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons, Pagoda Poolhouse (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A group of bathers in a swimming pool in Palm Beach, 1985. Behind them is a chinese pagoda poolhouse designed by John Volk. Slim Aarons Pagoda Poolhouse Lambda Print 4 sizes availab...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons, On the Beach in Bermuda (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sunbathing and swimming at a beach in Bermuda, June 1967. Slim Aarons On the Beach in Bermuda Chromogenic Lambda print Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to y...
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1960s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons, Il Pellicano Pool, 1969 (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests walking up steps at the Hotel Il Pellicano at Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1969 Slim Aarons Il Pellicano Pool, 1969 Lambda Print 4 sizes available Slim Aarons Estate Edition...
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1960s Realist Color Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons, C Z & Friends in a Model T, Palm Beach (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
American stage actress, author, columnist, horsewoman, fashion designer, and socialite, C. Z. Guest, ( aka Mrs. Winston F. C. Guest, 1920 - 2003) with her personalized Ford Model T t...
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1950s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons, Palm Beach Debutantes (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Young debutantes in Palm Beach, Florida, 1968. Slim Aarons Palm Beach Debutantes Chromogenic Lambda print Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, wo...
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1960s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons, Handball in Central Park (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A group of young men playing handball at a court in the 95th Street playground, Central Park, New York City, 1948. Slim Aarons Handball in Central Park Chromogenic Lambda print Slim...
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1940s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Palm Beach Arts Festival, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Palm Beach Arts Festival Procession, Florida, 1964. Slim Aarons Palm Beach Arts Festival Chromogenic Lambda print Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimen...
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1960s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Baragoi by John Kenny, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount,
Located in Coltishall, GB
The town of Baragoi is half a day’s drive from Lake Turkana. It is a green oasis amidst a parched landscape. The majority of the town’s inhabitants, including this striking woman, ar...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Samburu Shepherd by John Kenny, C-type Print with Acrylic Face
Located in Coltishall, GB
Every Friday the highest mountain pass in northern Kenya comes alive as its normally wind-battered and deserted shacks become the focus of a market. It is the only place in West Samburu where Pokot and Samburu tribal groups are able to meet in a tense and uneasy truce. From a cliff top, looking out over northern Kenya’s rugged scenery, a nervous Samburu trader pointed at small moving objects...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Samburu Adornment by John Kenny. C-type Print with Acrylic Face
Located in Coltishall, GB
I met this young married Samburu in the middle of a busy market in western Kenya. She was with a group of young women browsing the wooden stalls dotted across the dusty red earth in the lowlands of the Matthew’s Range. In Samburu communities young men spend years as warriors – a wandering lifestyle which make it impossible for them to marry. Instead they take girlfriends and give them beads and necklaces to indicate their relationship. Samburu girls adore receiving these presents and adorn themselves in more and more necklaces. The girl in this picture, although now married to an elder, still shows her beads from the time of being promised to a warrior: they are the band of 8 or so thin necklaces...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Turkana Girl of Loiyangalani by John Kenny, C-type Print with acrylic face mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
I met this girl from the Turkana community of Loiyangalani very near to the shores of Lake Turkana. She was walking with her head covered to provide some...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Cowboy of Wamba by John Kenny, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
I met this remarkable Samburu elder at the livestock market near to Wamba, a town in the heart of the Samburu district. It is a ‘Samburu Only’ event, where the social aspect of meeti...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Laura (Woman's head as seen thru water droplets which in turn are body parts)
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Laura" first looks like a color abstract. Then very slowly you realize it is an extreme close up of a young woman's face. Only slowly do the water droplets appear with each drople...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons, Barbados Bliss (Ava Marshall, Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons Barbados Bliss / Ava Marshall, 1976 Chromogenic Lambda print Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwi...
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1970s American Realist Color Photography

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Lambda

Acuan - Photograph by John Kenny, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A portrait of Acuan, a Turkana man from northern Kenya in 2019. John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with na...
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21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Black and White Photography

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C Print

Kakuwsa - Photograph by John Kenny, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A portrait of Kakuwsa, a Rendille man from northern Kenya in 2019. John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with...
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21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Black and White Photography

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C Print

Lekutano - Photograph by John Kenny, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A portrait of Lekutano, a Samburu man from northern Kenya in 2019. John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with...
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21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Black and White Photography

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C Print

Lemarleni - Photograph by John Kenny, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A portrait of Lemarleni, a Samburu man from northern Kenya in 2019. John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken wit...
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21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Black and White Photography

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C Print

Madina - Photograph by John Kenny, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A portrait of Madina, a Gabbra woman from northern Kenya in 2019. John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Black and White Photography

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C Print

Ltailson - Photograph by John Kenny, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A portrait of Ltailson, a Samburu man from northern Kenya in 2019. John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with...
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21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Black and White Photography

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C Print

Marietine Birnie, Malta, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s aerial landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Marietine Birnie snorkeling at the Blue Lagoon, Kemmuna (Comina), Malta. This is ...
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1950s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Merayun - Photograph by John Kenny, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A portrait of Merayun, a Rendille woman from northern Kenya in 2019. John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken wi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Black and White Photography

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C Print

Loha by John Kenny. Acrylic Face-Mounted C-type Print.
Located in Coltishall, GB
This portrait of Loha, a ‘Naga’ sadhu, was taken in Pashupatinath, one of Hinduism’s holiest sites. Lord Pashupatinath is a manifestation of Lord Shiva and the name translates to ‘protector of the animals’. Naga sadhus cover themselves in ash and typically wander naked from head to toe. John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to capture a remarkable level of detail. His subjects calm demeanor belies the reality of harsh arid winds, extreme temperatures and dust. John Kenny’s black and white photographic portraits are taken on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa and India. All shot with natural light and with the subjects in their day to day attire they reveal the pride and strength inherent in tradional ways of life. The C-type prints are mounted with an acrylic face mount...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Parvati by John Kenny. Acrylic Face-Mounted C-type Print.
Located in Coltishall, GB
A beautiful Meghwal girl from the edges of the white desert, the Rann of Kutch, an arid area bordering Pakistan in the far West of India. John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to capture a remarkable level of detail. His subjects calm demeanor belies the reality of harsh arid winds, extreme temperatures and dust. John Kenny’s black and white photographic portraits are taken on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa and India. All shot with natural light and with the subjects in their day to day attire they reveal the pride and strength inherent in tradional ways of life. The C-type prints are mounted with an acrylic face mount...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Kashi by John Kenny. Acrylic Face-Mounted C-type Print.
Located in Coltishall, GB
I met this Sadhu with such kind eyes in Kashi (another name for Varanasi) on one of the chaotic ghats. We tried and failed to take the portrait as crowds and sacred cows constantly streamed between us. Fortunately a group of young boat-hands gave up their relatively sheltered corner of the ghat, where they had been gambling over cards, to give us five minutes of calm space. John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to capture a remarkable level of detail. His subjects calm demeanor belies the reality of harsh arid winds, extreme temperatures and dust. John Kenny’s black and white photographic portraits are taken on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa and India. All shot with natural light and with the subjects in their day to day attire they reveal the pride and strength inherent in tradional ways of life. The C-type prints are mounted with an acrylic face mount...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Ramji Bhagu by John Kenny. Acrylic Face-Mounted C-type Print
Located in Coltishall, GB
I met this Sadhu with such kind eyes in Kashi (another name for Varanasi) on one of the chaotic ghats. We tried and failed to take the portrait as crowds and sacred cows constantly...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Glimpses by John Kenny. C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount.
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young woman of the Afar culture 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 in their day to...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Displaced by John Kenny. C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount.
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young man of the Nuer culture with distinctive scarification on his forehead. The photograph was taken in Ethiopia but like many of the Nuer he had been displaced from his home in...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Ode to Botticelli's Venus & Mars
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 3, 2 APs Large size: 15.25 x 36 inches STATEMENT: e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from t...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Assile Medium by John Kenny. C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Assile was photographed at a weekly market in Key Afar in the Omo valley. Key Afar is on a hillside near the mountains, and attracts hundreds of Hamer, Banna and Tsemai in an immensely colourful gathering of people. The market is divided between livestock with men trading goats and cattle and a separate section with women selling grain, nuts, containers, head stools...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Young Hamer Woman. By John Kenny. C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Markets are the lifeblood of social interaction in the Omo valley as they bring together widely scattered groups for a few hours each week. For the remainder of their time, many fam...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Bargi. By John Kenny. C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount.
Located in Coltishall, GB
Bargi, a young Hamer girl, takes a large amount of pride in her appearance. Her clothing, jewellery and hair are carefully arranged and require a lot of attention. Her key respons...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

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C Print

Mursi adornment. By John Kenny. C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young girl from one of the few Mursi villages in Mago National Park, in the lower Omo valley. The Mursi are often engaged in flood retreat cultivation around two main rivers: the O...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Nyangatom boy by John Kenny. C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
It was boiling hot as I walked the 3 kilometres to the Nyangatom village of Kangatan. A shimmering heat haze and occasional dust devils whipped fine powder across the flat, bare l...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Mursi Traditions by John Kenny. Acrylic Face-Mounted C-type Print
Located in Coltishall, GB
Mago National Park in southern Ethiopia is home to the Mursi, one of the most well known tribes of the Omo valley. The area is inhospitable to outsiders, because of the heat, humidi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

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