April 18, 2016 |
Remember that episode of Ab Fab where they get the Concorde to New York so that Eddie can procure a particularly nice door handle for her new kitchen? “How crazy!” we are willed to shout, “who would go to such lengths for a door handle?” But not us. No. Going across t’pond seems like a perfectly reasonable resolution for getting your hands on what you want. Or, in this case, our eyes, because we are seriously considering a quick heave ho over the Atlantic for Jamie Hawkesworth’s very first exhibition at the Red Hook Labs in Brooklyn. Because Jamie Hawkesworth is what we like to call a very good photographer. It was only week Ten Towers were collectively cooing over the British photog’s work. I mean, who else can make a Preston bus stop look like a place of great beauty?
The exhibition, entitled “A Short, Pleasurable Journey: 51 Photographs by Jamie Hawkesworth” (because that’s the best way isn’t it, short and pleasurable?), contains a selection of his images from the last five years – photographed everywhere from Antartica to Southshields to the Shetland Islands. Of the exhibition, Hawkesworth said to Vogue, “the idea of the show came from him asking what my work was about and what was important, and I said, “The most important thing is that it feels personal and authentic, to feel like me.” It’s a short journey, literally, as I’ve been doing this for five years.” Alongside the photographs, there will also be two short films, as yet unseen by human eyes. So, to borrow the words of chanteuse Oleta Adams – “you can jump on a speedy colt / cross the border in a blaze of hope / I don’t care how you get here / just get here if you can”.
Short, Pleasurable Journey: 51 Photographs by Jamie Hawkesworth is at Red Hook Labs, 133-135 Imlay Street, Brooklyn, New York 11231 until April 24th, 2016
