Ewen Spencer: Wag Lad
- story Peter Macia
- photo Ewen Spencer
UK-based photographer Ewen Spencer has contributed many memorable photos to The FADER over the last several years—from the prime of grime pirate sessions to Dungen’s pastoral home base—so it’s no surprise that his new solo exhibit at the KK Outlet in London, which opened tonight, looks pretty memorable as well. For those not familiar, Spencer is particularly gifted at capturing the peculiarities of young male behavior, and for Wag Lad, he turns his camera towards vainglorious dandies, with their meticulous dress and borderline insane attention to grooming. Like poodles if they had thumbs and a credit line. The exhibit runs until the 29th of October, and as Spencer himself writes on his blog, “Our Spotify playlist alone will be worth a visit.” Check the flyer on the click thru.
Congrats to FADER Photographers in the PDN 30
- story THE FADER
Every year Photo District News selects 30 amazing photographers it feels stand above and beyond the rest. Last year, FADER fam for life Dorothy Hong was awarded recognition, while this year not one but three FADER photographers were given the good look. Congrats go to Justin Maxon (whose frame-worthy image of Girls from F60 appears above), Dominic Nahr and Toni Greaves. We look forward to seeing their future work, both inside and outside the pages of The FADER.
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posted on Mar 5, 2009 in MUSIC NEWS tags Dominic Nahr, Dorothy Hong, Justin Maxon, PDN, PDN 30, photography, Toni Greaves
NYC: ICP Year of Fashion Opening Shows
- story THE FADER
The International Center of Photography has deemed 2009 “The Year of Fashion,” and they’ve scheduled some appropriately mind-ripping exhibits to celebrate it. “This is Not a Fashion Photograph,” which opens today, features original prints from their collection, shot by a stellar selection of documentary and art photographers who are not traditionally associated with fashion—Malick Sidibé, Bruce Davidson and Danny Lyon among them. Although their work wasn’t originally shot as fashion photogoraphy, each has an innate sensibility and style that has informed and influenced the direction of contemporary fashion photography. “The Weird Beauty” exhibition, which runs concurrently, features hundreds of tear sheets and magazine covers from both mainstream and independent publications by many of today’s leading fashion photographers. The inclusion of Krisanne Johnson’s ATL story from FADER #54 makes a connection between the two shows: a fashion story shot by a documentary photographer whose objective was to create imagery which feels as authentic as possible.
Both shows run from January 16 through May 3 at ICP Gallery, 1133 Avenue of the Americas, New York City.
Jason Eskenazi’s Wonderland: A Fairytale of the Soviet Monolith
- story THE FADER
Jason Eskenazi’s amazing new photo book Wonderland: A Fairytale of the Soviet Monolith was passed around the FADER office like a supermarket romance novel before ending up in the pages of issue 57. A Guggenheim fellowship recipient and Fulbright scholar, Eskenazi spent eleven years taking pictures in countries once behind the Iron Curtain, and the results are breathtaking in person. Check them out at the Leica Gallery, where they will be on display from November 14th through January 10th.
