Lot 485 - Emma Hardy - J-Cloths

C-type print from negative
2004
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Front with COA
Curated by Gemma Padley

About
Emma Hardy is a british photographer. She studied drama & French at Bristol University, then lived and worked in Paris for 5 years. Returning to London she worked as an actress for a few years until she realised she was much happier behind a camera. She started photographing portraits, documents and fashion for British Vogue, the Telegraph magazine, Vanity Fair, The Fader, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Time, Harpers Bazaar, among many other international titles, and had her first solo exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London in 2006 with a project titled ‘Exceptional Youth.’ Other exhibitions in London, New York and Milan followed, and she was invited to photograph a series of portraits for the London 2012 Olympics, again featured at the National Portrait Gallery. Thirty-nine of her portraits are in the permanent collection at the NPG London. In 2012 she was commissioned by Oxfam & The Economist to travel to Cambodia to document the citizens of Phnom Penh who were battling the governments land grabs—this series became an exhibition in London in 2013 titled 'Losing Ground,’ the exhibition travelled to Washington DC where the images were used as a lobbying tool to help the Cambodian situation onto the G8 summit list. Permissions, her first monograph, which documented her family over 20 years, was published by Gost Books in November 2022 and sold out swiftly. A selection of the images were exhibited at 1014 Gallery in Dalston, London, December 2022 - January 2023. Further solo exhibitions in Lisbon at Narrativa Gallery and in Brussels Belladone Gallery as part of the Photo Festival 2024. The work was long-listed for the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize 2024.