Maria Svarbova, L11, London, 2024. New Now: Modern & Contemporary Art, London.
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Maria Svarbova
My photos are minimalistic but also futuristic.
—Maria Svarbova
Prince Gyasi
Prince Gyasi, 4 A.M (For All Mankind), 2024. New Now: Modern & Contemporary Art London.
It’s about empowering Black people. That’s what my mission has always been.
—Prince Gyasi
Peter Beard
Peter Beard, Waterbuck Family on the Uaso Nyiro/ for The End of the Game/ Last Word from Paradise, 1968. New Now: Modern & Contemporary Art London.
Nature’s truth is always greater, stranger, more complex, and more incredible than mankind’s make-believe.
—Peter Beard
Sangbin IM
Sangbin IM, Central Park 2, 2007. New Now: Modern & Contemporary Art, London.
I depict urban fantasies and relish the bittersweetness that capitalism brings.
—Sangbin IM
Eiji Ohashi
Eiji Ohashi, Roadside Lights #146, 2022. New Now: Modern & Contemporary Art, London.
The vending machines downtown or in the wilderness, placed to stand in solitude, are an image of loneliness. They work tirelessly, whether it is day or night. But once their sales drop, they are taken away. If they do not glow and shine, they will stop existing. There might be something human about them.
—Eiji Ohashi
Evelyn Bencicova
Evelyn Bencicova, Not Your Dream, 2017. New Now: Modern & Contemporary Art London.
For me, starting isn’t the moment when you pick up your tool of expression whether it’s a camera, pen or brush. Rather, it’s the time before which I’ve spent daydreaming and imagining the stories which I create inside my head. My inner world is definitely where my work comes from.
—Evelyn Bencicova
Bastiaan Woudt
Bastiaan Woudt, Cycle II, 2020. New Now: Modern & Contemporary Art London.
This image is a key piece in my body of work, reflecting my fascination with contrast, minimalism, and the sculptural quality of the human form. It marks an important moment in my ongoing exploration of how light, shape, and texture interact to create depth and emotion.
—Bastiaan Woudt
Herb Ritts
Herb Ritts, Naomi Seated, Hollywood, 1991. New Now: Modern & Contemporary Art, London.
It was easy — it was always easy with Herb.
—Naomi Campbell
Anne Collier
Anne Collier, After You Get What You Want (Recto), 2017. New Now: Modern & Contemporary Art London.
I was always interested in photography’s relationship with material culture, how images circulated — on record sleeves, posters, in magazines, etc. — and how we develop personal relationships with these images.
—Anne Collier
Neeltje de Vries
Neeltje de Vries, Sunkissed, 2019. New Now: Modern & Contemporary Art London.
Longing for freedom became a purpose… In a way, I am creating self-portraits over and over again.
—Neeltje de Vries
Rala Choi
Rala Choi, Lovers, 2022. New Now: Modern & Contemporary Art London.
This piece captures my most honest moment. It reflects on what I thought love was, what I believed in, and the truths I could only understand with time. It lays bare the raw human instinct to hold on, to seek solace in each other. Perhaps that’s why Lovers, 2022 remains one of my most beloved works to this day.
—Rala Choi
Julio Rondo
Julio Rondo, Big Schlepp, 2025. New Now: Modern & Contemporary Art London.
It is not the restoration of the past encapsulated in memory as a figurative or narrative representation that is important to me. It is the ‘essence’ of the stored perceptions of people, events and places that is reflected in my work.
—Julio Rondo