Please join us in the Bookshop and meet photographer Neil Drabble who is presenting his publication Book of Roy, published by Mack.
From 1998 to 2005 Neil Drabble photographed an American teenager, Roy, as he grew from adolescence to early manhood. On one level this extensive body of work
can be viewed as a fascinating document of an always compelling transition. Closer scrutiny reveals further nuances; a collaboration, a partnership, a personal portrait
and at the same time a universal picture of adolescence.
Drabble chose not to depict significant events that might appear in a family album nor definitive moments associated with documentary photography. Instead, these photographs concentrate on the listless, off-scene periods, the ‘in between moments’ of everyday life. This focus on the marginal passages of disregarded time situates the viewer at the heart of adolescence, defined as the period between childhood and adulthood, suspended between longing (for the deferred promise of adulthood) and regret (for the loss of childhood as refuge).
By photographing the same person repeatedly and intimately over their formative years, a sense of mirroring began to emerge, reawakening something of the artist’s own adolescent self, blurring the line between portrait and self-portrait.
Neil Drabble is an internationally renowned photographer who specialises in editorial and portrait photography. He has worked for most of the major magazines
in Europe and America, including American Vogue and GQ. His work is part of numerous major museum and private collections around the world. His first book Tree Tops Tall, was published by SteidlMACK, 2003.
Thu 10 Oct, 18.00 - 20.00. Bookshop.
Free event, no Booking.
