#contemporary-culture

#contemporary-culture

My aspirations have remained the same: to document the contemporary cultural landscape and to produce a decent photograph a photograph that acknowledges the medium's allegiance to reality and that preserves for myself and others a unique and honest sense of the subject. The environmental details have been kept to a minimum. The subjects have the frame to themselves and do not compete with context for attention. This provides for a simpler, blunter, more intense encounter with character. It is character that animates the image.

Tyler Okonma seemed keen to deflate the kind of anticipation that arises when your last three albums have all been critically lauded, platinum-selling chart-toppers full of big ideas.

Jamie Lloyd has transformed the perception of contemporary theatre, earning acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, showcasing a directorial flair that pushes boundaries in productions.

In 2020, he tweeted of Donald Trump: "Has that tedious fat sex pest f**ked off yet?"