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Richard Learoyd Pace Gallery 7–31 October 2021 Palm Beach
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Created by way of the camera obscura, the nine photographs in this exhibition comprise direct-positive images as well as a contact print.

With an unparalleled passion for the medium and its history, Richard Learoyd explores new frontiers of photographic expression in his portraits and still lifes. Created by way of the camera obscura (Latin for ‘dark room’), the nine photographs in this exhibition comprise direct-positive images as well as a contact print.

Learoyd, who employs production techniques of bygone eras in his practice, occupies a unique place within contemporary photography. In his work, the artist borrows from the aesthetics of the finest figurative painters of the 19th and 20th centuries and draws inspiration from 17th century vanitas imagery. Imbued with art historical resonance, Learoyd’s photographs possess an undeniable timelessness and universality.

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About the Artist

Richard Learoyd (b. 1966, Nelson, United Kingdom) studied photography under the landscape photographer Thomas Joshua Cooper at the Glasgow School of Art. He is known for his large-scale portrait, landscape and still-life photographs produced using a camera obscura. Learoyd’s photographs were the subject of the solo exhibition Richard Learoyd: Dark Mirror at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2015–2016) and will be exhibited at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, in 2016. In 2015, Aperture, in association with Pier 24 Photography, published Richard Learoyd: Day for Night, a comprehensive monograph of the artist’s colour studio photographs. His work is in the permanent collections of institutions worldwide, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Learoyd lives and works in London.

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