Paris Photo 2015

The Michael Hoppen Gallery is delighted to announce that it will present Masahisa Fukase’s iconic ‘Bukubuku’ series at Paris Photo 2015. Fukase is widely regarded as one of the pre-eminent Japanese photographers of the postwar period, and internationally famed for “The Solitude of Ravens”. Bukubuku is a personal and unique series of self-portraits taken in Fukase’s bathtub over a two-month period with a Nikonos camera. It is his last ever published photobook and the prints have never been seen outside of Japan prior to Paris Photo 2015. An extraordinary contemporary performance artwork, the series presents a whimsical if somewhat morbid game of solitaire that charts new territory for the photographic self-portrait. The entire set of Bukubuku will be exhibited at Tate Modern in 2015. The theme of ‘Performance’ binds the concept of the Michael Hoppen Gallery stand, and includes an entire wall which records the rise of punk culture in the United Kingdom with press photographs from Rex Images, whose tattered object quality mimics the movement they document. Rare vintage prints by Kati Horna will also be on display. Documenting her years in Mexico, the images capture her friends and fellow artists in theatrical and surrealist compositions. The Michael Hoppen Gallery will also present Eamonn Doyle’s new photobook, ‘ON’. His subjects stand out and strike out against their environments, often looming against skies in a way that speaks of possibility even as they nurse wounds or eye each other suspiciously. Following upon his acclaimed series ‘i’, this second body of work re-invents the often tired concept of street photography