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Bryan Adams
Exposed
18 June–25 September 2016 at Fotografiska
Exposed, is an exhibition that covers Bryan Adams’ multifaceted and
exciting photographic output. The well-chosen title, Exposed, provides
a succinct description of Bryan Adams’ photography. With exquisite
sensitivity, he exposes the viewer to an extreme range of impressions,
expressions and imprints of life. From the glamorous world of celebrities
depicted in Exposed to the harrowing Wounded: The Legacy of War,
comprising photographs of British servicemen and women who have
suffered life-changing injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan.
With his numerous commissions for magazines such as Vogue, Harper’s
Bazaar and Zoo Magazine, Adams has provided us with access to the
closed and seemingly carefree realm of celebrity and escapism. However,
the title of the exhibition hints at hidden depths: What happens to people
who are exposed 24:7? What do these revealing portraits say about life
behind the façade of celebrity?
In sharp contrast to the slick surface of glamour, Adams has also portrayed
a fractured Britain whose young armed forces personnel have paid for the
political conflicts of the 2000s with their bodies. Mutilated and scarred, they
pose, proud of who they are, while bearing witness to war’s visible and
invisible life-long consequences. Young men and women who went to war
and returned to a life they could never have imagined. Adams’ camera reveals
their scars and mutilated bodies, challenging the viewer with heartrending
testimonies that etch themselves indelibly on the retina.
For more images, please contact
Fotografiska’s PR/Marketing Manager
Margita Ingwall +46 (0)70 456 14 61
Bryan Adams
Exposed
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18 June–25 September 2016 at Fotografiska
» Bryan Adams’s camera captures and exposes two contrasting worlds –
glamour and escapism versus the real world of sacrifice and suffering.
The series Exposed is a journey into a seemingly carefree life of celebrities,
a world which most of us observe from the outside and which is constantly
present in our lives through art and popular culture. In contrast, Wounded:
The Legacy of War projects a powerful exposé of the individuals behind the
headlines of the brutality of war, people who are often too quickly forgotten.
It is a life-long sacrifice that not only raises questions about the existence of
war but also about those who never returned «, Pauline Benthede, Exhibition
Manager at Fotografiska explains.
The second part of the exhibition Exposed comprises fashion photography
of the highest order, published in the world’s most renowned fashion
magazines, as well as images of friends, colleagues and other personalities
that Adams has photographed in the course of several years in the worlds
of entertainment, fashion and art, stars like Jim Morrissey, Ben Kingsley,
Amy Winehouse, Michael Jackson, Louise Bourgeois, Lindsay Lohan and
Judi Dench.
The exhibition presents works from the beginning when Adams the musician
also harboured a great love for the art of photography – until today when he
is a long-standing and well-established fashion photographer commissioned
by major global brands. Works for which he has been awarded the prestigious
Lead Award three times in Germany, and in 2015 he was given an Honorary
Fellowship with the Royal Photographic Society in London.
Now this exciting Odyssey can be experienced in full at Fotografiska.
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For more images, please contact
Fotografiska’s PR/Marketing Manager
Margita Ingwall +46 (0)70 456 14 61