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Contemporary Portrait Photography

CONTEMPORARY STYLE

Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.

Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.

The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.

Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.

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Style: Contemporary
Item Ships From: England
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Himba Siblings by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2010
Located in Coltishall, GB
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 day to day attire. The C-t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait 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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait 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 Portrait 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 Portrait 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 Portrait 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 Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Inchoy by John Kenny. Portrait, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
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 Portrait 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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

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C Print

Learnesi by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
The Rendille are found across arid and semi-arid areas of northern Kenya and live in a harmonious arrangement with their neighbours to the south, the Samburu. It is often difficult t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

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C Print

Some Eyes Have Seen by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2008
Located in Coltishall, GB
John met this Wodaabe girl who was carrying her young child in a remote market village called Sakabal in the far north of Niger’s Maradi province. Like many Wodaabe women, she had ma...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Tuareg Vision of Intensity by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print
Located in Coltishall, GB
In January 2009 John Kenny went to the Festival of the Desert in Mali. The gathering of Tuareg musicians was, at the time, an annual event held in Essakane – about 100kms into the Sahara from Timbuktu, This striking Tuareg man was walking through the beautiful white sand dunes with his camels. He was on his way to join groups of Tuareg watching the setting sun from the top of the dunes and to join in preparations for the next days camel racing...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

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C Print

Tuareg Vision of Intensity by John Kenny. Portrait, C-type Print, Acrylic Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
In January 2009 John Kenny went to the Festival of the Desert in Mali. The gathering of Tuareg musicians was, at the time, an annual event held in Essakane – about 100kms into the Sahara from Timbuktu, This striking Tuareg man was walking through the beautiful white sand dunes with his camels. He was on his way to join groups of Tuareg watching the setting sun from the top of the dunes and to join in preparations for the next days camel racing...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Fula Shepherd by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2009
Located in Coltishall, GB
This young Fula shepherd, much younger than is perhaps suggested in this photograph, was walking through a small village with his animals in the searing midday heat of Niger. He was ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Fula Shepherd by John Kenny. Portrait, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
This young Fula shepherd, much younger than is perhaps suggested in this photograph, was walking through a small village with his animals in the searing midday heat of Niger. He was ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Fulani Bapteme Ceremony by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2009
Located in Coltishall, GB
One bright sunny morning in northern Benin my guide and I set off on a moped across remote dirt roads in the hope of finding wandering Fulani that might take us to visit their villag...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Fulani Bapteme Ceremony by John Kenny. Portrait, C-type Print with Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
One bright sunny morning in northern Benin my guide and I set off on a moped across remote dirt roads in the hope of finding wandering Fulani that might take us to visit their villag...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Konbaki by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2008
Located in Coltishall, GB
Konbaki – a portrait from a Fula woman from Niger in Africa. John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natur...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Konbaki by John Kenny. Portrait, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount, 2008
Located in Coltishall, GB
Konbaki – a portrait from a Fula woman from Niger in Africa. John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natur...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Amongst the Camels by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2009
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Tuareg man 80 kilometres north of Timbuktu in the desert camp of Essakane. He was wearing a beautiful red metallic turban characteristic of the Tuareg from this part of Northern Ma...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

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C Print

Oromo Lady of Bati by John Kenny. Portrait, C-type Print with Acrylic Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
The town of Bati is famous for the massive, bustling, weekly market that takes place on a hillside under a sea of umbrellas. Animals are still the measure of wealth for rural peopl...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Tuareg Warrior by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2009
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Tuareg warrior from Mali. 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 thei...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Lines that Lead to Perfection byJohn Kenny. C Print with Acrylic face mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Ydaco is from the Betammaribe culture in Benin. He lives in a small village in the Atakora mountains. His cheek bones provide the perfect surface for the beautifully intricate scarif...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

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C Print

Amuria by John Kenny. Portrait, C-type Print 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 ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

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C Print

The Fairground by John Kenny. Portrait, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Turkana elder photographed by John Kenny in Kenya. John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Ayoni and child by John Kenny. Portrait, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Ayoni and her child – a smiling Turkana mother. John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows h...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Lopayok by John Kenny. Portrait, C-type Print 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

Nakini by John Kenny. Portrait, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount, 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young Turkana girl John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to capture a remarkable l...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Gumatoo by John Kenny. Portrait, C-type Print 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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

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 Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Gumatoo by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 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

Kedenye by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Nakini by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young Turkana girl John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to capture a remarkable l...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Eture by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 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

Materials

C Print

Lesirte by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 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...
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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 ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Emon by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 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

Loile by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 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

Materials

C Print

Ekerun by John Kenny. Photographic Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 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...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Karepo Nawa by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2010
Located in Coltishall, GB
I met this young Himba girl near to a place called Etengwa in the far north of Namibia. We trekked a few kilometres in the midday heat, over a rocky hill to a small village within wh...
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 Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

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 Portrait 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 Portrait 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 Portrait 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 Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

John Kenny Malasso 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 wrapped in blankets. The Pokot and Samburu are engaged in a constant battle over grazing rights, the two groups tend not to mix even at the market. This lady and the women with her were watched carefully by armed Pokot warriors as they walked amongst the market’s wooden stalls. The journey to the market involves walking many kilometres across the valley floor and then a 1000m ascent to the mountain pass. When she left the market she carried no purchases with her an example of the exertions and huge distances that people in the north endure in order to trade and buy their basic necessities. John Kenny...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

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C Print

Lakuru by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2009
Located in Coltishall, GB
Rendille warrior from Northern Kenya John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His subjects are lit with natural light and wear their day ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Wodaabe Maiden by John Kenny. Portrait, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young Wodaabe maiden from Niger. 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 ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Metal

La Dama Del Callejón by James Sparshatt. 20" x 20" Photo on brushed aluminium
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 Portrait Photography

Materials

Metal

El Babalao by James Sparshatt. Baryta Silver Gelatin Photograph
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Babalao or priest of the Santeria religion The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dramatic changes of 1959 as young adults. They have ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

El Campesino by James Sparshatt. 20" x 20" 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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait 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 Portrait 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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Metal

El Sentinel by James Sparshatt. 20" x 20" 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 Portrait Photography

Materials

Metal

Puro… Alegría by James Sparshatt. 36" x 36" Photograph on Brushed Aluminium
Located in Coltishall, GB
Puro is Cuban slang for a cigar… alegria is Spanish for happiness… for Graciela both always seemed essential to her being. The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generati...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Metal

Puro… Alegría by James Sparshatt. 20" x 20" Photograph on Brushed Aluminium
Located in Coltishall, GB
Puro is Cuban slang for a cigar… alegria is Spanish for happiness… for Graciela both always seemed essential to her being. The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generati...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Metal

El Barbudo by James Sparshatt. 36 x 36" Photographic Print on Brushed Aluminium
Located in Coltishall, GB
The bearded one… in Old Havana. The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dramatic changes of 1959 as young adults. They have a strength of...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Metal

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