Selina Mayer

Preparations for Interrobang are well and truly underway…

Leda 2010

I am in an exhibition this week, it opens on Thursday. All the details can be found here - THIRST water is art:art is water

This is one of the works that will be showing.

If you haven’t seen it already, I would highly recommend the Sally Mann exhibition at the Photographer’s Gallery. Must-see for those interested in old photographic processes (or just beautiful photographs). Click the photo for more info.

“I studied the little girl and at last rediscovered my mother” (detail)

Silver Gelatin Print, 2010

This is one of ten photographs that make up the piece “I studied the little girl and at last rediscovered my mother”. I will be posting a few more over the next few days, but if you would like to see the full work then come along to the Central St Martins BA Fine Art final show - the show is open to the public from 18th-24th June, 12-8pm (Sat 20th is invite-only friends, family and alumni, Sun 21st closed), and my work is installed on the Mezzanine floor.

Irving Penn, The Duchess of Windsor, New York, 1948

For those of you interested in portrait photography and you have yet to see the Irving Penn exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery - go! And go soon, the show closes tomorrow!

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Irving Penn created some of the most exquisite and visually arresting portraits I’ve ever seen. I often feel surrounded by flood-lit, airbrushed, perfect advertising portraits with no character, but Penn’s portraits utterly and beautifully contradict this ideal. His images have strong lighting, obvious staging, texture and vitality so often missing in the digital age. Certainly a photographer I look up to.