Frith Street Gallery

b. 1959, Northampton, England

One of the most distinctive voices in British contemporary photography, John Riddy’s practice exists in a singular relationship to a particular photographic inheritance. His photographs are meditations on the individuality and poetry of certain places. His subject matter is broad – ranging from the unassuming domestic interior to images of Renaissance or Modernist architecture and the specific qualities of certain city spaces. Time, atmosphere, spatial illusion and cultural histories are compressed and extended in pictures that aim to defeat our expectations of photographic descriptions.

Selected Exhibitions

• 2010 – 2011 Romantics, a group exhibition at Tate Britain
• 2009 Low Relief: Photographs of London, a solo exhibition at Frith Street Gallery
• 2006 – 2007 Views from Shin-Fuji, a touring solo exhibition at Victoria & Albert Museum, London; The Fokus Foto Kunst Stadforum, Innsbuck
• 2005 Cloud Images: From Constable to Richter, a group exhibition at Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau
• 2000 a solo exhibition at Camden Arts Centre, London

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