Monthly Archives: May 2026

Robert Cumming – Studio Still Life

Posted on by David Campany

Robert Cumming was an artist of seemingly limitless skills who took up photography as a way to synthesize them all. He would design, draw, build and then photograph objects, sets and scenarios that were outlandish but somehow logical in their … Continue reading

LEMAIRE: A Box of Impressions

Posted on by David Campany

Some of my photographs are included in curatorial project “A Box of Impressions”, a box-sized exhibition put together by Lou Stoppard and Sarah-Linh Tran for Lemaire, Palais Royal, Paris. The exhibition invites 21 photographers to focus on the themes of … Continue reading

On Photographs

Posted on by David Campany

Thames & Hudson (UK), MIT Press (USA), Guilio Einaudi Editore (Italy), Eyrolles (France), Huazhong University of Science and Technology Press (China) Publisher’s Summary: In On Photographs, curator and writer David Campany presents an exploration of photography in 120 images. Proceeding not … Continue reading

Ken Russell, Teddy Girl, 1955

Posted on by David Campany

Ken Russell was best known as an iconoclastic film-maker, but he began with a still camera, aged twenty-three, in 1951. He was therefore slightly older than the Teddy Girls he photographed in January 1955. Born a little before or during … Continue reading