Londinium: Photographs by Max Reeves

November 03, 2009 09:30

Published: October 23, 2009 10:10 by Max Reeves |

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Shoreditch (Hand of Glory)

Hyde Park

Spitalfields

Whitechapel

Paternoster

Bank

Tower of London

London Wall

City of London

City of London (Dante)

Londinium: Photography by Max Reeves

 

Photography exhibition at the Barbican Library

Tuesday 3 November - Saturday 28 November Private View: Monday 9 November
6.15 - 8.30pm

"Bethlem became...a ‘mirror of madness' reflecting the city's disordered
psyche, designed by the city fathers as an asylum for their own inpending
insanity." -Catherine Arnold
Max Reeves' photographs use London as a setting to investigate the
intersections and interstitials between life and myth, revealing the
complexity of London's psychological terrain. The verity of the city
morphs into a documentation of personal mythology populated with curious
characters, palimpsests, crows, protestors, children and apophenia. Blood,
authority versus the freedom of the individual and transcendence emerge as
themes through layered and often ambiguous images. Londinium embraces a
poetic vision of London superseding its geographic locality.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a poem by Cameron Bain ‘Londonium'

 

 

 

Contact email: m@s-kollective.com

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