Anders Petersen: Early Portraits Russian When Gareth McConnell was commissioned

When Gareth McConnell was commissioned by the New York Times to photograph the wild horses of Iceland there was an apocalyptic feeling in the air from the  Russian invasion of Ukraine

Size:   30x23x23cm 288 pages                                                                                           ISBN:  15704874

and the times in which they were made

Its aim is to steer us away from screens and turn to real pages of inspiration

The artist’s work questions Western notions of identity

Anders Petersen: Early Portraits Russian When Gareth McConnell was commissionedWhen Anders Petersen was a student at Christer Strmholms photo school in Stockholm 1966 68, Christer went through Anders contact sheets and marked a C on the few photos he could come to terms with. I copied several of the negatives marked with C, small strange and hard images that were really just imitations of Christers own. They were vulnerable, and I liked them. But they felt as if they didnt belong to me. After some searching through the contact