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James Sparshatt El Barbudo Photography, Small Print on Brushed Aluminium, 2002
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
The bearded one… in Old Havana. The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dramatic changes of 1959 as young adults. They have a strength of...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Metal

El Amor by James Sparshatt. Baryta Silver Gelatin Photo, 2002
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
An image of adoration and worship. Holguín, Cuba during a festival of dance. James Sparshatt’s photographs of music and dance capture the emotion and intensity of people lost in the...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Silver Gelatin

El Ensayo by James Sparshatt. Baryta Silver Gelatin Print, 2002
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
El Ensayo (the rehearsal) was taken during the Romerias de Mayo festival in Holguin Cuba. The troupe were preparing for a performance of Afro-Cuban dance...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Navidad en Santa Maria by James Sparshatt. Baryta Silver Gelatin Print, 2005
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
Christmas day on Santa Maria beach on the outskirts of Havana, Cuba. James Sparshatt’s photographs of music and dance capture the emotion and intensity of people lost in the rhythm ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Silver Gelatin

A Moment with Mario by James Sparshatt. BW Photograph of a jazz trumpet player
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
A photograph of Mario locked in a harmonious embrace with his trumpet… a moment of magic in a jazz club in New Orleans. James Sparshatt’s photographs of music and dance capture the ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Ochun by James Sparshatt . C-type photo with Acrylic Face Mount, 2003
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
Dancing to the rhythm of the Gods in Santiago de Cuba… Ochun reborn… James Sparshatt’s photographs of music and dance capture the emotion and intensity of people lost in the rhythm ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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C Print

Ochun by James Sparshatt. C-type photo
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
Dancing to the rhythm of the Gods in Santiago de Cuba… Ochun reborn… James Sparshatt’s photographs of music and dance capture the emotion and intensity of people lost in the rhythm ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

Materials

C Print

Havana Café by James Sparshatt. C-type Photo with Acrylic Face Mount
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
Havana Café. El Escabeche is a bar about halfway along called Obispo in old Havana. It was late afternoon when the band began to play. Their new lead singer was performing for the fi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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C Print

Havana Café by James Sparshatt. C-type Print with Acrylic Face Mount
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
Havana Café. El Escabeche is a bar about halfway along called Obispo in old Havana. It was late afternoon when the band began to play. Their new lead singer was performing for the fi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

Materials

C Print

James Sparshatt El Ultimo Tango Photography, Framed Palladium Platinum Print
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
The last tango of the day en la Boca, Buenos Aires, Argentina. James Sparshatt’s photographs of music and dance capture the emotion and intensity of people lost in the rhythm of the...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Glass, Platinum

Las manos by James Sparshatt. Baryta Silver Gelatin Print
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
Dancers during the Romerias de Mayo festival in Holguin Cuba. James Sparshatt’s photographs of music and dance capture the emotion and intensity of people los...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Armonía by James Sparshatt. Baryta Silver Gelatin Print
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
A moment of harmony… male with female, African with Hispanic… joined together in the dance that is Cuba. James Sparshatt’s photographs of music and dance capture the emotion and int...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Silver Gelatin

La Mirada by James Sparshatt. Baryta Silver Gelatin Print
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
The school of Spanish dance is housed in the upper floors of the Teatro Garcia Lorca in Havana. The wooden floors of the rehearsal rooms are worn and pitt...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Reflecciones by James Sparshatt. Baryta Silver Gelatin Print
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
A moment of self-reflection in the School of Spanish Dance in the Gran Teatro of Havana. James Sparshatt’s photographs of music and dance capture the emotion and intensity of people...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Silver Gelatin

El Descanso by James Sparshatt. Baryta Silver Gelatin Print, 2000
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
Each day the students at the School of Spanish Dance in Havana strut and twirl and leap across boards tin dance studios hat have seen better days. The da...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Las Palmas by James Sparshatt. Baryta Silver Gelatin Print, 2000
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
Dancer in the School of Spanish Dance in the Gran Teatro in Old Havana. James Sparshatt’s photographs of music and dance capture the emotion and intensity of people lost in the rhyt...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Serenity At Dawn by James Sparshatt. Framed Archival Print
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
A frozen morning on the Bure River – a glass-like reflection of the over-arching trees James Sparshatt’s black and white landscapes from his Norfolk home emphasize the beauty of the big skies...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Rag Paper

The Flock and The Fisherman by James Sparshatt. Archival Print on Rag Paper
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
A fisherman late one balmy afternoon at Gore Point. The sun was setting, a gentle breeze lifting the sand and a flock of sea birds swooped and dived in the sky above… James Sparshatt’s black and white landscapes from his Norfolk home emphasize the beauty of the big skies...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Rag Paper

The Flock and The Fisherman by James Sparshatt. Framed Archival Print, 2017
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
A fisherman late one balmy afternoon at Gore Point. The sun was setting, a gentle breeze lifting the sand and a flock of sea birds swooped and dived in the sky above… James Sparshatt’s black and white landscapes from his Norfolk home emphasize the beauty of the big skies...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Rag Paper

The Skelligs by Moonlight by James Sparshatt. 34 x 24" Framed Archival Print
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
The Skellig Islands are off the coast of Kerry in Ireland. Once the home of reclusive monks they have gained notoriety recently as a retreat for Luke Skywalker… Lit by moon light reflected off the Atlantic Ocean swell they portray a calm at odds with the often stormy seas that batter them.. James Sparshatt’s black and white landscapes have an ethereal beauty. They are moments when the natural form of topography is given magic by the transient touch of the elements. The work is also available as a smaller archival giclee print and as a collectors edition Palladium Platinum print. Archival print on 300gsm Hahnemuhle rag Edition of 15 Dark wood frame with UV clarity glass Framed size 96cm x 72cm (38″ x 28.5″) Signed by the artist Certificate of Authenticity from the gallery Country: County Kerry...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Rag Paper, Glass, Wood

Fellaz on Frenchmen by James Sparshat.t Palladium Platinum Print, 2019
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
New Orleans is a mecca for music lovers from around the world. Wandering up Frenchmen Street on a sultry Louisianan evening is to be surrounded by competing sounds vying for attentio...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Platinum

Los Angulos by James Sparshatt Photography, Silver Gelatin Print, 2002
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
A dance troupe in harmony rehearsing in an old theatre in Santa Clara, Cuba James Sparshatt’s photographs of music and dance capture the emotion and intensity of people lost in the ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Silver Gelatin

El Beso by James Sparshatt. 20" x 16" silver gelatin print
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
A fleeting touch of the lips on a tango dance floor James Sparshatt’s photographs of music and dance capture the emotion and intensity of people lost in the rhythm of the moment. The...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

James Sparshatt El Recolector Photography, Silver Gelatin Print, 2001
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
A musician from the band Iroso Obba at home with his collection of discs James Sparshatt’s photographs of music and dance capture the emotion and intensity of people lost in the rhy...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Some Eyes Have Seen by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
John met this Wodaabe girl who was carrying her young child in a remote market village called Sakabal in the far north of Niger’s Maradi province. Like many Wodaabe women, she had ma...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Pure Wodaabe by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A portrait of a young Wodaabe man from a town called Bororo in Niger. Bororo is often regarded as the ‘capital city’ of his people. The name Bororo is also commonly used to describe ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Amongst the Camels by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Tuareg man 80 kilometres north of Timbuktu in the desert camp of Essakane. He was wearing a beautiful red metallic turban characteristic of the Tuareg from this part of Northern Ma...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Kolode by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Rendille girl in Kenya A return to Kenya. On this trip John took a different approach to lighting. Building makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets held up by four ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

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C Print

Lesirte by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Samburu warrior from Kenya A return to Kenya. On this trip John took a different approach to lighting. Building makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets held up by f...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

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C Print

Eture by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young Rendille girl A return to Kenya. On this trip John took a different approach to lighting. Building makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets held up by four war...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

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C Print

Naiio by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
This young Turkana girl in northern Kenya wears a goatskin known as an ‘egolas’. In traditional Turkana communities the inhabitants are excellent at making garments from animals, and...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

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C Print

John Kenny Pitali Large Portrait, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount, 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
Sometimes a more practical hair arrangement is needed for warriors and braids are rolled into a net that is tied to keep the hair firm. Once the hair is long, a warrior will only sha...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

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C Print

Loicherua by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
This warrior, like many of the Samburu, cares intensely about his appearance. There are two giveaway signs beyond the amount of jewellery he wears: a small pink pocket mirror, next t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

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C Print

Ikulme by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
This elder from a Rendille community in northern Kenya wears a typical bright coloured fabric wrapped around his body. It is essentially the same as the blanket-like ‘shuka’ worn by ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

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C Print

Emon by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
I met Emon in a small Turkana village called ‘Sarima’ in the North of Kenya. It’s a wild place that seems to sit in a wind tunnel that takes its power from the enormous water mass of...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

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C Print

Loile by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
The large circular earplugs worn by this stunning Rendille warrior are made of plastic and sometimes bone. In past times, and very occasionally today, you might see the same plugs ma...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

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C Print

Rendille mother and child by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait with Acrylic mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Like the Maasai, Rendille women and their children keep their hair very short. This mother, however, leaves a tuft of hair remaining on the front of her child which has been bleached...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

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C Print

John Kenny Ekerun Large Portrait, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Turkana elder in Northern Kenya John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to capture a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Karepo Nawa by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2010
Located in Coltishall, GB
I met this young Himba girl near to a place called Etengwa in the far north of Namibia. We trekked a few kilometres in the midday heat, over a rocky hill to a small village within wh...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Lakuru by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2009
Located in Coltishall, GB
Rendille warrior from Northern Kenya John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His subjects are lit with natural light and wear their day ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

La Vieja Guajira by James Sparshatt. 20 x 20” photo printed direct on aluminium
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
The old country girl from the Escambray mountains. I was hiking in the mountains, close to Trinidad, when I met the family. They invited me in and we chatted about our different live...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Metal

La Vieja Guajira by James Sparshatt. 36 x 36” photo printed direct on aluminium
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
The old country girl from the Escambray mountains. I was hiking in the mountains, close to Trinidad, when I met the family. They invited me in and we chatted about our different live...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Metal

Hombre de Media Luna by James Sparshatt. 20 x 20” photo printed on aluminium
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
It was almost 3am and we were still waiting for the band to start to play. I stood on the open air stage buffeted by the winds as the group and their roadies struggled to set up. Th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Metal

Hombre De Media Luna by James Sparshatt. Smiling man smoking a Cuban cigar
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
It was almost 3am and we were still waiting for the band to start to play. I stood on the open air stage buffeted by the winds as the group and their roadies struggled to set up. Th...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Metal

La Romera by James Sparshatt. 20 x 20” photograph printed direct on aluminium.
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
On a musical and pleasure seeking pilgrimage… during Las Romerias de Mayo festival in Holguín. The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Metal

La Romera by James Sparshatt. 36 x 36” photograph printed direct on aluminium
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
On a musical and pleasure seeking pilgrimage… during Las Romerias de Mayo festival in Holguín. The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dr...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Metal

El Finquero by James Sparshatt. 20 x 20” photograph printed direct on aluminium
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
A tobacco farmer from the Viñales valley. The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dramatic changes of 1959 as young adults. They have a s...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Metal

El Finquero by James Sparshatt. 36 x 36” photograph printed direct on aluminium.
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
A tobacco farmer from the Viñales valley. The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dramatic changes of 1959 as young adults. They have a s...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Metal

Graciela by James Sparshatt. 36 x 36” photograph printed direct on aluminium
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
Graciela was for many years an institution in Old Havana. Always dressed beautifully, a cigar clamped between her teeth, a grin at the ready. A witness to the Cuban revolution and 50...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Metal

El Revolucionario by James Sparshatt. 20 x 20” photo printed direct on aluminium
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
El revolucionario – a gentleman of Old Havana. The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dramatic changes of 1959 as young adults. They hav...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Metal

El Revolucionario by James Sparshatt. 36 x 36” photo printed direct on aluminium
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
El revolucionario – a gentleman of Old Havana. The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dramatic changes of 1959 as young adults. They hav...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Metal

El Tabaquero by James Sparshatt. 36 x 36” photograph printed direct on aluminium
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
A tobacco farmer from the Viñales valley in Cuba. In 1959 residents of Cuba were faced with a stark choice: stay on their island home and live as a “revolutionary” or leave. Some believed wholeheartedly in the new beginning, some were willing to be carried along and some abandoned everything they had and chose exile. The Buena Vista social club...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Metal

El Tabaquero by James Sparshatt. 36 x 36” photo printed direct on aluminium
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
A tobacco farmer from the Viñales valley in Cuba. In 1959 residents of Cuba were faced with a stark choice: stay on their island home and live as a “revolutionary” or leave. Some believed wholeheartedly in the new beginning, some were willing to be carried along and some abandoned everything they had and chose exile. The Buena Vista social club...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Metal

Mujer De Santiago by James Sparshatt. 36 x 36” photo printed direct on aluminium
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
A woman of Santiago de Cuba. The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dramatic changes of 1959 as young adults. They have a strength of ch...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Metal

Himba Siblings by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natural light and his subjects in their day to day attire. The C-t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Fula Nomad at Golondi by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
The man was sat in the shade during a huge village market in a place called Golondi in Niger. We drank the salty, sweet tea that the nomads of the Sahel and...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

The San Man by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A picture of joy. KhoiSan bushman from Namibia John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natural light and...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Assaita by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2008
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young man of the Afar culture in the town of Assaita. Many men spend the afternoons in loud debate in mud buildings and courtyards. Often with fistfuls of miraa leaves (ghat) and...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Fire of the Himbaby John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Himba women have a devotion to red ochre powder and butter fat that exceeds even the Hamer of the Omo valley in Ethiopia. They apply huge amounts to almost their entire bodies inclu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Lion of the Kalahari by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
This Himba elder was at a huge funeral gathering in the western Kaokoland between the largest town of the area, Opuwo, and Otjitando. The area was flat, and very dry, with a strong w...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

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