Highlights from Photo London 2024
Open to the public from 16th – 19th May, Photo London 2024 brought together some of the most groundbreaking work in contemporary photography, as well as paying tribute to the pioneers of the past. Below, Hundred Heroines volunteer writer Paula Vellet outlines the artists and photographs that particularly captured her interest!
Gina Cross and Jo Bradford
Gallery: Gina Cross Projects
I loved the camera-less photographs of Gina Cross – the vibrant, textural, abstract ‘Sculptural Movements’ – and the dreamy abstracts of Jo Bradford.
Images: Folds #1, 2023 Sculptural Movements
Washaway, 2022
Carolyn Gowdy
Gallery: England and Co
Wonderful to discover American London-based artist Carolyn Gowdy and her surrealist black and white work from 1977/1978.
Untitled (Male/Female) 1978
Untitled (Slumber) 1977
Katrin Linkersdorff and Susan Derges
Gallery: Purdy Hicks
The gorgeously delicate large-scale tulip photographs of German photographer Katrin Linkersdorf are stunning, hung in contrast to the quietly mesmerising photograms of Dartmoor-based Susan Derges.
from the series Fairies, 2020-2023
Larvae, 2007
Nanna Hanninen
Gallery: Persons Projects. Berlin
Finnish conceptual photographer Nanna Hanninen merges landscape and paint to transform iconic images.
Mesa in Blue (Monument Valley) 2024, archival pigment print, acrylic paint
Lydia Goldblatt
Gallery: Robert Morat Galerie
I loved London-based Lydia Goldblatt’s intimate photographic series and book on motherhood published by GOST Books. One of the series, ‘Eden’, won second prize in the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize, 2020.
Fugue, 2020-2024
Aisha Seriki
Gallery: Doyle Wham
Nigerian London-based multimedia artist Aisha Seriki uses the calabach as a metaphor in her series ‘Ori Inu’. It depicts her attempts to ‘mend the break between her mind and spirit.’ Aisha was shortlisted for the Photo London X Nikon Emerging Photographer award 2024 and was a winner of the V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography this year. The fabulous Doyle Wham gallery, run by Imme Dattenberg-Doyle and Sofia Carrera Wham, is the UK’s only contemporary African photography gallery.
Ori Inu 9, 2024
J.K. Lavin
Gallery: Alta Vista
I loved seeing the LA-based photographer J.K. Lavin’s incredible body of self-portraiture from the 1970s and 1980s, which presciently explored the effects of advertising on the female psyche.
Eye #1
