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THE FAIR

We have come to the end of our selection and after an interesting journey getting
to know the previous four shortlisted artists we’re excited to finally present the winner!
This is Cluster London Getting to know… Lucy Shortman, winner of the first edition
of the Cluster Photography & Print  Residency Programme.
Let’s take a closer look at her work!

This is Cluster London Getting to know Tayo Adekunle, one of the shortlisted artists from the first edition of the Cluster Photography Residency Programme.

This is Cluster London Getting to know… Guillaume Hebert, one of the shortlisted artists from the first edition of the Cluster Photography Residency Programme.

Cluster London interviews Italian photographer Maurizio Ciancia to unravel the layers behind his minimalist vision.

Cluster London launches a new series of interviews titled Getting to Know…
Here we'll take a closer look at the winner and shortlisted artists
from the first edition of our Cluster Photography Artist in Residence Project.
This is Cluster London Getting to Know... Toby Binder.

Cluster get’s behind the lens with fashion photographer and video maker Anna Bertozzi. From Vogue shoots to the magic of stage theatre we chart her photographic voyage and uncover her exciting, varied career. Here we explore Anna’s reportage photography and talk about the seductive illusion within the fashion industry. Her brand of mean, moody and magnificent photography is hard hitting and unpretentious. Yet always strives towards an aesthetic appeal for freedom in body and mind.

In celebration of Women’s History Month 2021, Cluster is proud to interview Bangladeshi photographer Mou Aysha. Her striking work features raw and beautifully soulful female portraiture. Here we discuss wonder women, bravery and the inner magic within all woman-kind.

Cluster gets to grips with nudity, intersectional feminism and body related taboos with Sicilian photographer Simona Vaccaro.

JANUARY 2021

The close-knit relationship between identity politics and photography was born with the invention of the camera. Even though the early developers of the camera aspired to create a device that aids scientific observation and easy reproduction, its use for reinventing the art of portraiture was what made photography a widespread practice.

Cluster Photography & Print is pleased to welcome social documentary photographer Dougie Wallace to Cluster Artist in Residency Jury Panel. Read further in our article insights into his project Harrodsburg, his approach to social documentary photography and thoughts on photojournalism.

A careerist from the age of 17, Fait began her creative endeavours as an assistant in audiovisual production, publicity, film festivals, music videos and short films. And by 2017 she upped sticks, moving to Rio De Janeiro as a production assistant in audiovisual projects. It was here that Denise Fait became managing partner of Fait Films, guiding artists and producing audiovisual and theatre projects.

The New Yorker, Michelle Peralta, entertains the notion of dichotomies and split-second happenings in day-to-day living, particularly with the themes: dynamic versus inert, love versus loss and presence versus absence. The motif being: all these themes are the result of a single moment; the cock and snap of the shutter; the crystallisation of glass and locking of aperture blades.

The eclectic ranks of Cluster London’s past exhibitors feature an exciting, all-embracing scope of photographic practice. Comprising over 60 contemporary photographers, the work traverses an unshackled range of thematic photographs and prints.

We are very pleased to have WREN Agency’s founder & agent Jenifer Turner as a Jury Member as part of our Cluster Photography Residency Program. Hear Jenifer’s insights into the industry and her approach to mentorship.

One enigmatic composer of visual art from Cluster’s past exhibitions is the Italian Francesca Rossi, who lives and works in Milan. Rossi’s practice weaves through notions of familiarity and the discernment of her own comfort zone, of which she notes, ‘Through the photographic survey of my body and the physical context in which I move I express myself with a particular attention at the details. Through their details the objects show themselves in a new way and they change their sense.’

Polish-born photographer, Helga Paris, is one of Germany’s foremost chroniclers of a time past: the divisive splitting of Germany into states. The East, otherwise known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was formed four years after the close of the Second World War.

Malian-born photographer, Malick Sidibé is best known for his spirited and radiant pictures of celebration and joy. He worked mainly in black and white, and prolifically documented young people in elegant get-up.

Many readers of Francesca Woodman’s photographs see a collection of self-portraits alluding to a troubled state of mind, a foreshadowing of the macabre; but Woodman’s parents refute this assessment, and instead, remember their daughter as the witty, amusing child, full of fun and photographic prowess.

The show was titled The Family of Man, comprising 503 photographs by 273 artists, from 68 countries; the result of a painstaking fine-tuning of 2 million archival pictures. Ambitious, innovative and forthright in its execution, the exhibition was Edward Steichen’s artistic version of deténte — an easing of tensions amidst global malaise

Both a rebel and poet, with a photographic oeuvre and hellraiser reputation preceding him, William Eggleston is perhaps, the American South’s greatest living photographer. And only last month, Steidl’s latest publishing, William Eggleston 414, by Juergen Teller and Harmony Korine, gives readers a chance to peer into the enigmatic life of Eggleston.

The painterly, wistful eye of Saul Leiter was largely unheard of by the wrong-headed art community in 1950s New York. It’s said that he remained on a lower podium than his contemporaries, Diane Arbus and Richard Avedon. Leiter was a pioneer (a term he humbly accepts, but also challenges) of colour photography, and one of the first photographers to regularly capture the city in colour.

Walker Evans (1903–1975) the photographer, writer, designer, editor, and tireless journalist is mainly known for his towering and eclectic work in photography. Some of his best works are some of the most instantly recognisable photographs in the history of the medium.

With many art galleries still unable to open to the public, curators are finding new ways to bring art to the public with a series of virtual exhibitions.

Whether you are a landscape painter, an abstract expressionist or a filmmaker, like-minded artists are never too far away.

Cluster London is delighted to announce the launch of its first artist-in-residence programme, which will offer early-career artists living outside of London the opportunity to experience the capital’s creative vibrancy through a fully-funded residency, and to develop their network in the city through a tailored mentorship programme.

Black liberation has seen many proponents of its cause, and one trailblazer, should be considered again. His name is Gordon Parks; a man who once declared “Racism is still around, but I am not about to let it destroy me”. 

JEFFREY WALL - A CLOSER LOOK

Cluster Photography & Print Journal continues with exploring photographers from all around the world. With this piece we take you through Jeffrey Wall’s work. He is a Canadian artist best known for his large-scale back-lit Cibachrome photographs and art history writing. He has been a key figure in Vancouver's art scene since the early 1970s.

Ivette is a Cluster artist working in portraiture and photography, and we chatted about how the pandemic has changed her practice, the difference between photography in Mexico and the UK, and how she wants her practice to develop.

For the launch of Cluster Photography & Print Journal, writer Kieran McMullan talks about the first comprehensive survey of Samuel Fosso’s multifaceted oeuvre. Since the mid-1970s, the artist has focused on self-portraiture and performance, envisioning variations of identity in the postcolonial era.