Portfolio Catalogue

Naglaa Walker,
Grand Ampitheatre,
Sorbonne, 2002

Joel Sternfeld,
Glen Canyon Dam,
Page, Arizona, 1983

Nina Beier and Marie Lund, You Like Me, 2004

Bettina von Zwehl, Rain #7, 2003

This issue presents innovative photographic art created or shown in the UK in 2004. Bettina von Zwehl is known for her work which depicts psychological states. Her new series of photographs of women in the rain are sensual images which register the transformative powers of rain and its psychological impact.

Bettina von Zwehl, Rain #2, 2003

Peter Fraser’s meticulous photographic studies transform banal everyday materials into exotic, colourful objects. Michael Bracewell discusses the experience of viewing these works.

Peter Fraser, Untitled 2002-2003

Can photographs created within the context of photojournalism make a seemless transition into the world of art? Mark Durden discusses this issue in the work of Luc Delahaye, which he argues is informed by the histories of both photography and painting.

Luc Delahaye, Kabul Road, 2001

Ian Jeffrey assesses the work of Joel Sternfeld, winner of the Citigroup Photography Prize 2004, through a discussion of his complex photographs and the critical writing surrounding Sternfeld’s American Prospects.

Helen Chadwick, Viral Landscape No. 3, 1988-1989
(c) The Helen Chadwick Trust

The Barbican Gallery’s retrospective of Helen Chadwick’s work has created an opportunity for us to present the late artist’s Viral Landscapes (1988-1989). One of the earliest andmost ambitious art projects to involve computer technology, the series is an example of the Chadwick’s profound engagement with medicine and science.

Olivier Richon, Financial Still Life (with whippet), 2003

We also have pleasure in presenting new work by David Williams, Olivier Richon, Daniele Puppi, Christopher Stewart, Rose Frain, Sarah Lynch, Naglaa Walker, Nina Beier and Marie Lund.

Gloria Chalmers
Editor

Christopher Stewart, United States of America, 2002