John Stoddart and VEEN Waters
In todays modern society, there are very few people who force us to think with a simple photograph. In recent decades, photographers such as Helmut Newton, Annie Leibovitz as well as photojournalists such as Kevin Carter and Eddie Adams have stopped us to think about world that we live in.
John Stoddart is without doubt, a man who opened our eyes to new views of well known celebrities and people. A photographer who sites "maestro of horror" Alfred Hitchcock and Roman Polanski as his sources of inspiration.
His images make us feel uncomfortably aroused and at the same time, humanely equal with the photographed person. John Stoddart has been a pioneering photographer in `London for 25 years and many of his portraits have become the iconic images of his ‘sitters.'
LOVE AND LUST
Love and Lust is based on the two most powerful human emotions. The first part of the exhibition focuses on the power of female seduction, dressing to please herself and her lover. All the women in Stoddart's images have a confident and alluring quality, especially his photographs of pregnant women.
The second part of the exhibition, ‘Dirty Little Pictures', is a series of 68 black and white portraits of porn actors and the technicians behind the camera working on the sets of different British movies over a two-year period. Stoddart's interest in pornography began on seeing ancient frescoes in a whorehouses in Pompeii, followed by a discovery that Britain was the last country in Europe to make professional adult movies.
Coco de Mer is pleased to announce Love and Lust, an exhibition of images by photographer John Stoddart. The exhibition opens at Coco de Mer 108 Draycott Avenue, South Kensington, London SW3 3AE on Thursday 10th September 2009.
VEEN is a proud supporter of the event and the official water.
