Fashion Space Gallery, located at London College of Fashion has announced its latest exhibition Don’t Stop Now: Fashion Photography Next. The group exhibition, curated by Magdalene Keaney, will explore ideas and themes found in contemporary image-making and photography. The exhibition offers a glimpse into the wealth of contemporary practices in fashion photography which result in a dynamic, colourful and multi-faceted display. Featuring photographers who push the boundaries of fashion photography and who are developing new and radical ways to progress their art, this exhibition brings together the industry’s most exciting and maverick talent. Presented in two parts, part 1 will take on the themes of Materiality and Play, drawing attention to a new generation of photographers returning to analogue processes and technology and employing irony and humour to highlight possible tensions between ‘virtual’ and ‘real’. Part 2 will focus on two of the most prevalent approaches in contemporary fashion photography – Artifice and Authenticity. Keeping central to the idea of contrast between the two positions, it simultaneously acknowledges that divisions of ‘fantasy’ and ‘fact’ are often not simplistic or clear-cut in contemporary practice. Don’t Stop Now: Fashion Photography Next is initiated by Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam and co-produced with Fashion Space Gallery, London College of Fashion. The exhibition was curated by Magdalene Keaney and is accompanied by a book published by Thames and Hudson, Fashion Photography Next, 2014. The exhibition will be accompanied by an events programme of talks, screenings and masterclasses that will be announced in early January 2015. The press preview is scheduled this week – see Fashion and Beauty Insight Events.

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