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No Parking, urban architecture photograph from Richard Heeps' series, A Short History of London. The stark Brutalist architecture has sense of beauty as the hypnotic symmetry draws y...

ICES Cornflower Blue, bold pop art street photography from Richard Heeps' series, On-Sea. Created as an ode to Richard's childhood visits to his grandparents living on the Sussex co...

Fishing Hut, Southwold, harbour architecture photograph from Richard Heeps' series, On-Sea. The modest fishing hut becomes a work of art set against a blue sky in the sunshine. This...

North Shore Motel Steps, mid-century architecture photography captured by Richard Heeps as part of his Salton Sea series. This artwork is a limited edition of 25 gloss photographic ...

ICES Pink Lemonade, bold pop art street photography from Richard Heeps' series, On-Sea. Created as an ode to Richard's childhood visits to his grandparents living on the Sussex coas...

North Shore Motel, photography by Richard Heeps captured in the Salton Sea, California. A classic American faded roadside Motel, the mid-century architecture stands against with blue...

Reviewing the photographs of Julie Blackmon, critic Leah Ollman of the Los Angeles Times wrote: “Each frame is an absorbing, meticulously orchestrated slice of ethnographic theater … that abounds with tender humor but also shrewdly subtle satire.” Blackmon is a native of Springfield, MO, and her photographs are inspired by her experience of growing up the oldest of nine children—including five sisters—in what she calls “a generic American town in the middle of the U.S.” In college, Blackmon was introduced to the work of artists Sally Mann, Diane Arbus, and Helen Levitt, and she describes herself as “obsessed” with their images. “When my three children were small,” she recalls, “we moved into an old house with a darkroom in the basement. Like any mother, I wanted to take pictures of my kids. But I didn’t want to be just the ‘mother photographer.’ I wanted my work to be more: more penetrating, more artful, more striking, more thoughtful, more a reflection of the times. “Over the next few years, I progressed from making documentary black and white photographs of my life and the lives of my sisters to creating colorful, fictitious images that offered a more fantastical look at everyday life. My work became more conceptual, as I began to realize that I was not obligated to capture “reality” exactly, but that I could work more like a painter or a filmmaker, actively shaping the images I was creating. This realization—that fiction can often capture the truth more memorably than reality—was a major shift in how I saw the world around me, and it transformed my work.” “It’s thrilling to see the most common aspects of everyday life as potential stories or themes for a photograph. It changes how you see things: suddenly, a Starbucks employee on a smoke break, or an outmoded beauty shop catering to an elderly clientele, can spark a memorable image. As Nora Ephron...

'Call Booth', photograph from Richard Heeps Salton Sea series. This cinematic neo-noir style picture shows the classic American roadside Phone Booth, something which we look at very ...

AILA Blue, from the Heidler & Heeps Tape Collection - The B Sides. The Heidler & Heeps collaborations are creative representations of Natasha Heidler and Richard Heeps’, personal pas...

ICES Red, bold pop art street photography from Richard Heeps' series, On-Sea. Created as an ode to Richard's childhood visits to his grandparents living on the Sussex coast, the art...

ICES Honey Yellow, bold pop art street photography from Richard Heeps' series, On-Sea. Created as an ode to Richard's childhood visits to his grandparents living on the Sussex coast...

AILA Purple, from the Heidler & Heeps Tape Collection - The B Sides. The Heidler & Heeps collaborations are creative representations of Natasha Heidler and Richard Heeps’, personal p...