Next Exhibition opens on 17th July at 19:00

Collection of the Gallery - Summer 2026

See prints by:

Emma Hartvig (for more info here)

Emma Hartvig (1990, Sweden)

Emma Hartvig works with photography to create images that inhabit the space between memory, myth, and self-invention. Drawing on cinematic language, painterly traditions, and autobiographical experience, she constructs photographs that function less as documents than as reflections of inner life.

Across portraits, staged narratives, and landscapes, Hartvig explores how people construct stories about themselves in order to navigate life, loss, longing, and change. Her subjects move through dreamlike spaces where identity remains fluid and reality slips into fiction. Rooted in themes of solitude, escapism, reinvention, female identity and self-mythology, her work examines the fragile boundary between who we are and who we imagine ourselves to be.

Born 1990 in Sweden, Hartvig moved to London in her late teens, and completed a BA in Photography at the University of the Arts in 2014. She has since lived and worked in Paris and Berlin, and is currently based in Vienna. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at FAS44 Gallery and The Hulett Collection in the United States, as well as solo and group presentations in Paris, Berlin, London, Milan, Venice & Vienna. She is included in Rizzoli’s Pools (2020) and Hatje Cantz’s The Swimming Pool in Photography (2017). Her work has been written about in L’Oeil de la Photographie, Fisheye Magazine, Die Zeit, Il Giornale dell’Arte, C41, and AnOther Magazine. She has received the Julia Margaret Cameron Award, the IPA, and the Aesthetica Art Prize and her work is held in several private and public collections, including the Sixteen Photography Collection.

Tom Millea

Tom Millea (1944-2015) began taking photographs at a young age, but he turned to photography intently only after completing a BA at the University of Western Connecticut. From 1967 to 1973 he studied independently with photographer Paul Caponigro, which he has described as a pivotal experience. During this period, Millea worked primarily as the director of the Underground Gallery in New York City, and as Director of Photography at the Photo-Graphics Workshop in New Canaan, Connecticut. In 1973 Millea moved to Carmel, California, where he began focusing on his own work, primarily portraits and landscapes.

He died in 2015, recognised both as a master of the platinum process and as an excellent photographer. His work is in almost every major photography museum in the world including LACMA, MOMA, the Smithsonian, and many others.

Michael Kenna

Michael Kenna (b. 1953) has established himself as one of the most distinctive voices in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century landscape photography. His black-and-white prints, characterised by long exposures and minimalist compositions, have been widely celebrated for their quiet, meditative quality. Among the recurring motifs in Kenna’s work—trees, piers, industrial ruins, and nocturnal landscapes—water occupies a particularly significant position. Far from being a passive backdrop, water becomes an active participant in his visual and conceptual language, shaping the mood, form, and philosophical underpinnings of his images. Read more on the homepage how Kenna employs water as a medium of minimalism, a register of time, and a site of spiritual reflection, positioning his work within both Western and Eastern photographic traditions.

Christian Klant

Christian Klant ist Spezialist für handgemachte, analoge Fotografie. Mit dem Kollodium Nassplatten Verfahren fotografiert er sogenannte Wet Plates für freie Projekte und Auftragsarbeiten. Mit einem eingespielten Team realisiert Klant aufwendige Produktionen und lässt Bildwelten entstehen, die der Zeit enthoben scheinen und gleichzeitig einen modernen Twist aufweisen. Marken, denen Wertigkeit, Authentizität und eine spannende Geschichte wichtig sind, wissen zu schätzen, dass Klant ein Meister darin ist durch seine Fotografien genau diese Attribute sprechen zu lassen.

Die außergewöhnliche Ästhetik und Tiefenwirkung seiner Bilder wird mit den Arbeiten von Paolo Roversi, Sarah Moon und Irving Penn verglichen. Christian Klant ist BFF Professional, Herausgeber des BFF Art-Lab Podcast, Treuhänder der Stiftung Photographie schwarzweiß, Sprecher des Deutschen Fotorates und berufenes Mitglied der DGPh. Er veröffentlichte 2022 sein zweites Buch „Places of Resonance“ und wird international ausgestellt.

“Unsere Natur und Werte wie Achtsamkeit und Authentizität sind der rote Faden meiner freien Arbeiten. Diese sollen inspirieren und neue Perspektiven eröffnen und werden international ausgestellt. 2014 wurde mein erstes Buch „100 Wet Plates - 100 Words“ veröffentlicht. Dem folgte 2022 das Buch „Places of Resonance“. Als BFF* Professional, Herausgeber des Art Lab Podcast, Treuhänder der Stiftung Photo- graphie schwarzweiß und Vorstandsmitglied des Deutschen Fotorates setze ich mich für die Fotografie ein. Forschungsprojekte u.a. über Gustave Le Gray für das Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam bereichern meine Arbeit. Darüber hinaus bin ich berufenes Mitglied der DFA, sowie der DGPh. Als leidenschaftlicher Printer bringe ich nicht nur meine eigenen Arbeiten zu Papier, sondern habe die Ehre, dies auch für ausgewählte KollegInnen tun zu dürfen. Der Prozess zum fertigen Bild ist jedes Mal auf ’s Neue eine wunderbare Reise.”

Bill Schwab

Bill Schwab (1959 - 2025) was an American photographer known for his emotionally charged yet peaceful urban and natural landscapes.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Central Michigan University in 1983. Schwab's career as a photographer and publisher spanned over 4 decades, with work in many private, corporate and museum collections around the world, including The Art Institute of Ohio – Cincinnati, Detroit Institute of Arts and the George Eastman House. He was a pioneer in the area of online representation and branding of his photographic art, having successfully managed a worldwide collector base for many years, as well as consulted with other artists and galleries on the subject. In addition to his work as a photographer, through his North Light Photographic Workshops, he facilitated classes in several photographic processes each year at his northern Michigan facility, as well as led expeditions of photographers to Iceland, the Faroe Islands and more. Bill was also founder and host of the "Photostock Festival", an annual gathering in June of photographers, collectors and enthusiasts for workshops, reviews, presentations and demos.

Having been shown in many group and solo exhibitions in the US and abroad since the early 1980s, Schwab's work continues to become more widely known and sought after.

Viki Kollerova

Born in Czechoslovakia, into a family of a plant virologist and an internationally recognized climber. After finishing her MA in Translation and Interpretation, Viki Kollerová continued her postgraduate studies focused on semantics and eventually abandoned the academic life to the passion for photography in 2009. One of the basic tasks of linguistic semantics is to study the relationship between form and meaning, which was easily applicable to her new field of interest. From her early photographs, Kollerova’s work represents a subtle balance between aesthetics of the form and the importance of the idea.

Her first solo show in 2012 titled Tied To My Own Strings features a collection of nude portraits depicted in self-inflicted confinement of a small apartment. The female figure explores the limitations of the living space, looking for imaginative escape routes. The themes of confinement reappear as well in her subsequent series Stuck, despite moving her subject out in the open air. Photographing in nature initially brought to Kollerova’s work the notions of vulnerability and helplessness of the human being, appearing small in the overwhelming surroundings. Photographer makes her nude figures literally disappear throughout the exhibition NoBody showcased in The Museum of Slovak National Uprising alongside Tono Stano in 2015. She establishes a light-hearted dialogue with the viewer by playing hide and seek in her pictures. With humor as a strong ally, the young woman tries to subvert the predominantly sexualized perception of the female nude and gently pushes the observer to discover the innate innocence of the naked human form.

In 2020, eleven works from Kollerova’s largest series Silver Island were selected by Fotografiska Museum for the exhibition NUDE, first opened in Stockholm in 2021 and later moved to New York, Berlin and Tallinn museums. With the subtitle - The Naked Body In Contemporary Photography, the exhibition shows 30 artists from different countries, exploring the nude from a feminine perspective.

Polly Chandler

Polly Chandler grew up in Southern Illinois and graduated with an MFA in photography from Southern Illinois University.

She has exhibited her work nationally and her photographs have been published in magazines such as Photo District News, American Photo and B&W Magazine. About her body of work, she says "There are those occurrences that sit with us and settle into who we are. Some are more forceful than others. I am seeking to explore those identifiable instances that seem to slow time, and through my photographs, share the understanding of these moments."

Kit Young

Kit Young (1984) set out on his photographic journey in 2009 when he moved to France where he joined a group of Paris-based photographers led by Gérard Moulin. It was during this period that Kit began to explore the infinite possibilities of darkroom printing and the juxtaposition of seemingly unrelated moments in time to create visual patterns as part of series-based work.

In this exhibition we bring together the best of his Paris and Scotland work. Look at the prints, they are here to be explored by the visitor like a poem. In fact they are poems.

They evoke the mood and the feeling of the places they show. Listen to the prints and they will whisper to you. You can feel the wind and the world in front of you. Paris is busy but Kit’s photographs show you the poetic side of Paris. Well known places but seen in a whole new way.

Scotland expands in front of you. There is the wind and the vast landscape in mystery for you to discover in these beautiful prints. Is it a wave or a mountain? Where does this road lead to? Cup of tea in a house or a wee dram of single malt? Look at the prints and hear again the whispers and sense the smell.

Kit Young is a film photographer who sees the subject in front of his lens and creates his powerful prints in the darkroom. A photograph which might be unimpressive and flat will get its power and meaning in the darkroom through the expert craftsmanship and the creative eye of Kit Young. The subject, which might be a city scene or a landscape or people gets is expression and mood only after the print has been made. This is very much how I like art photography, it is not some light pixels on a, sometimes tiny, screen but it is the object, the print which makes the art and brings the joy to the collector.

“I consider myself to be a photographer and a printer. I think that’s an important distinction to make. I don’t just take photos; I make photos too. The photographer in me is responsive, impulsive, reacting to subject matter on the spur of the moment, more often than not giving very little thought to anything more than the lines and tone of what’s in front of me; the printer in me is methodical, exacting, always working in a more meditative way. I do, however, think that both the photographer and printer in me are curious, inquisitive and often playful – and neither is afraid to make mistakes.”

Jock Sturges

Sturges (1947) schloss sein Studium 1974 mit einem BFA in Wahrnehmungspsychologie und Fotografie am Marlboro College ab und graduierte 1985 als MFA in Fotografie am San Francisco Art Institute.

Bekannt wurde Jock Sturges durch seine Aufnahmen an FKK-Stränden in Kalifornien, Spanien und vor allem in Frankreich (Montalivet). Seine Bilder stellen vor allem nackte Mädchen und junge Frauen dar. Anders als etwa David Hamilton sieht Sturges seine Bilder nicht als sinnlich, erotisch oder gar pornografisch. Sie sollen im Gegenteil in erster Linie Schönheit, Zerbrechlichkeit und Vergänglichkeit zeigen.

In den USA wurde Sturges’ Büro 1990 vom FBI durchsucht und seine Bilder und seine Ausrüstung beschlagnahmt. Grund war der Vorwurf der Kinderpornografie. Diese Vorwürfe konnten nicht aufrechterhalten werden und er bekam seine Ausrüstung und seine Bilder zurück. Später im selben Jahr wurde er von der religiösen Rechten angegriffen. Durch Auftritte in TV-Sendungen und die Verteidigung durch viele Liberale in den USA konnte er auch diese Angriffe überstehen.

Seine Werke kann man heute im Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, dem Museum of Modern Art New York, der Bibliothèque nationale de France, dem Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt und dem San Francisco Museum of Modern Art sehen. Außerdem gab es Ausstellungen in Galerien in Tokio, Berlin, München, Brüssel und weiteren Städten auf der ganzen Welt.

Rosalind Hobley

Rosalind Hobley (UK, 1963) is a London-based artist working with cyanotype, an early photographic process known for its deep, Prussian blue tones. Using heavyweight cotton rag paper, she hand-coats each sheet with a light-sensitive solution of iron salts, then exposes it to UV light under a large format negative. The process is careful and slow - a quiet collaboration between light, time, and material.

Hobley’s interest in plants is rooted in personal history. Her father and grandfather were seed merchants, and she learned how to garden from an early age. Today, she continues that tradition on a small scale, growing many of the flowers she photographs in pots on her balcony. Her large prints, in particular, carry echoes of childhood—when plants felt monumental, and you could lose yourself in the tiny, intricate details of a petal or leaf.

Her Swimmer prints also spring from her obsession with the water and being in the pool. They are meant to evoke the dreamlike and often euphoric feeling of swimming, the freedom of movement, and the unique visual effects of ripples and bubbles that Other swimmers pass silently, graceful and remote.

Trained in Fine Art Sculpture at Maidstone College of Art, Hobley’s work has been widely exhibited and recognised. She was awarded the Create Church St Grant and an LCN Scholarship, received first place in the Alternative Processes Series of the 16th Julia Margaret Cameron Award, and earned an Honourable Mention in the Portrait Series. Her cyanotypes have been shown at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Turner Contemporary, Hastings Contemporary, and featured in a range of publications.

John Wimberley

John Wimberley was born during July 1945 in Bermuda. His photographs have appeared in nearly 100 exhibitions, multiple international publications, and are found in hundreds of public and private collections around the world. In 2010, Wimberley received the Oliver Award from the American Rock Art Research Association for his book of American Indian petroglyphs titled Evidence of Magic.

Fritz Liedtke

Fritz Liedtke began photographing as a teen, carrying a Kodak 110 Instamatic on a US tour with his father at age 14, in their little blue Datsun B210.

Fritz holds a BFA in photography and printmaking, and has won numerous awards, grants, and residencies for his work. His images have been widely published by magazines such as National Geographic, Lenswork, PDN, Professional Photographer, View Camera Magazine, Rangefinder, Silvershotz, PhotoLife, Diffusion, and blogs such as Lenscratch, Photoeye, LensCulture, China Life Magazine, F-stop, and others. His work is held in such collections as the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The Hallie Ford Museum, The Haggerty Museum, Yale University Library, Lishui Museum of Photography, Scripps College Rare Book Collection, and more.

Aside from making art, Fritz enjoys creating unique images for his commercial and editorial clients, traveling, and teaching workshops on photography and the artistic life. He is constantly looking for new ways to approach the world through art. Fritz and his family call Portland, Oregon their home. They live on several acres outside of town surrounded by herons, egrets, ducks, bitterns, and frogs.

Ed Ross

Michael Edward Ross (October 27, 1965 – July 30, 2016) was an American tintype photographer and lawyer. His photography work spanned 27 years. His last six years were devoted exclusively to wet-plate photography. His focus as an artist was primarily on nude portraits and landscape photography.

Ross was born in Ukiah, California to Bill and Dorothy Ross and raised in Davis, California. He attended Jesuit High School in Sacramento, UC San Diego, studied at the London School of Economics, and the UC Hastings School of Law. He worked as senior legal counsel for the Apple computer company in Cupertino, California.

Ross had taken photographs for 27 years, and during the last eight years of his life used the Collodion process or wet-plates for his work.

Ross worked with three different cameras: a half-plate box-style camera made by Ty Guillory, an 8 by 10 inches (200 mm × 250 mm) bellows-style camera made by Black Art Woodcraft, and a 16 by 20 inches (410 mm × 510 mm) Chamonix. He used 'period' lenses, manufactured between 1850 and 1900, by Dallmeyer, Voigtlander, and Ross.

John Sexton

John Sexton was born in 1953. Education: Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, departmental honors, Art – Photography, Chapman University, Orange, California; Associate of Arts, with honors, Photography, Cypress College, Cypress, California. Sexton worked for Ansel Adams from 1979 to 1984 (when Adams died), first as Technical and Photographic Assistant, then as Technical Consultant. Sexton served as Special Projects Consultant to the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust following Adams' death.

Sexton has taught at numerous photographic workshops in the past, and continues to do so, with his wife Anne Larsen, a talented photographer in her own right, through his long-running eponymous fine art photography workshop program. For many years he was a co-director of the Owens Valley Photography Workshops with fellow co-directors Bruce Barnbaum and Ray McSavaney. Sexton also has lectured at many museums and universities. His work is in numerous permanent collections and exhibitions, and he has been the subject of many articles in the photographic press.

Sexton's process consists of large-format 4x5 photography and black and white silver gelatin prints. Like his mentor Ansel Adams, his prints are characterized by great tonal quality resulting from his darkroom virtuosity - Sexton provides abundant technical notes in his books. Most of Sexton's subjects are the natural world, however, unlike Adams, he is more interested in intimate scenes than wide or dramatic vistas, and often photographs them in long exposures made in the "quiet" light of dusk.

Paul Kozal

Paul Kozal, a Sea Ranch resident (California), has been contributing to the world of fine-art photography for over thirty five years. His work has been featured in leading photographic publications and art magazines. Kozal's photographs are in the collections of the Monterey Museum of Art, the Tokyo Cultural Center, the Cantor Center for the Arts at Stanford University and several corporate collections. His photographs are frequently selected for the Arts in Embassies Program. Kozal’s work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows throughout the United States. He is represented in several fine art galleries including his personal gallery, Studio 391 in Gualala, California.

“The majority of my images are inspired by the beauty of The Sea Ranch, a ten mile stretch of land of the Sonoma coast known for it’s distinctive architecture and commanding views of the Pacific Ocean. My primary desire is to communicate the beauty of my surroundings - a ray of sunlight gleaming across the sea; sheep grazing in the meadows; wooden barns in the afternoon fog; giant redwoods and windswept cypress trees; bluff-top trails skirting the ocean - these are the indelible images I seek to capture through my camera lens. “

Ruth Bernhard (1905 - 2006)

Geboren 1905 in Berlin wanderte Ruth Bernhard nach ihrem Studium an der Berliner Kunsthochschule 1927 nach New York aus. Dort arbeitete sie eine Zeit lang in der Dunkelkammer des Stadtmagazins The Delineator. 1935 traf sie auf den Fotografen Edward Weston und zog nach Carmel-by-the-Sea, um dort die Fotografie zu erlernen. Schließlich eröffnete sie ihr eigenes Fotostudio in Hollywood, in dem sie häufig Porträts von Kindern Prominenter erstellte. 1953 zog sie nach San Francisco.

Ruth Bernhard konzentrierte sich auf die künstlerische Darstellung von Stillleben und Kindern. In den 1950ern und 1960ern fand sie in der Aktfotografie ihre Leidenschaft, lange bevor diese gesellschaftlich akzeptiert war.

Weltweit gab es bereits mehr als 200 Ausstellungen ihrer Bilder. Seit 1996 sind ihre Werke dauerhafter Bestandteil des Archives der Princeton University.