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all pictures from the “Hackney Flowers” series

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Hackney Wick is a little known area in East London, and also STEPHEN GILL´s latest fascination. In Hackney Flowers, he collected flowers, seeds, berries and objects from Hackney, then pressed them in his studio and rephotographed them alongside his own photographs and other found ephemera, thus building up multi-layered images built from the area. The collage-like images thus produced are a reference to unexpected ecological riches while also serving as a metaphor for the beauty that may sometimes be found in the banal.

Six relevant dates in the life of STEPHEN GILL:

1. At an early age, STEPHEN was introduced to photography by his father.
2. In 1985, while still at school, he worked with a Bristol-based photographer, copying and restoring old photographs and helping to take family portraits.
3. Two years later, he began working full-time in a one-hour photo lab in the city.
4. In 1992 he enrolled in the Photography foundation course at Filton College in Bristol,
5. and a year later, he began to work at Magnum Photos in London, firstly as an intern and then full-time.
6. In 1997 he become freelance and since has continued to make a variety of personal photographic series. STEPHEN’s photographs are now held in various private and public collections and have also been exhibited at many international galleries and museums.

And good news: you can find the book “Stephen Gill: Hackney Flowers” in the WFW Store