fresh faced and wild eyed 08 at The Photographers' Gallery

I went to The Photographers' Gallery yesterday. Here are two serials I like.

online gallery www.photonet.org.uk


Steve Schofield www.steveschofield.co.uk
My practice is concerned with the hyper-real. I reflect the desire of my sitters to create a utopian existence based on their obsessions and hobbies, each influenced by popular culture. By photographing science-fiction costumers in their own homes in Britain, I have sought to show how, through this strange sub-cultural world of fandom, like-minded people establish a fictional existence to escape the everyday.





Alex Sandwell Kliszynski www.ask-art.net
My work explores the idea of the human/doll composite. It is intended as a satirical take on the pornographic image, posing questions about desire and fantasy and their representation in mainstream post-feminist culture. I draw attention to the objectification of the body and, at the same time, the disassociation between the commercialised male sexual fantasy and everyday experience of intimate relationships.