Zoe May Whitfield

United Kingdom

Writer at Freelance

WRITING! @ various ~ commission me : https://t.co/7pnn1asqJ5. ⬇️ recent work ⬇️

Articles

How motherhood is being reframed in art

1 month ago | cnn.com | Zoe May Whitfield

London, United Kingdom CNN — In Caroline Walker’s 2022 painting “Bottles and Pumps”, various breastfeeding paraphernalia lies drying on a white tray. “That’s been an interesting one, in terms of how people have responded,” she wrote to CNN over email, relaying the painting’s reception as part of “Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood”, a touring group show curated by art critic Hettie Judah.
‘Fun, crazy and ludicrous’ images of Cannes before camera phones

1 month ago | cnn.com | Zoe May Whitfield

CNN — Photographer Derek Ridgers’ introduction to the Cannes Film Festival arrived in 1984, when he was commissioned to shoot the DJ and rapper Afrika Bambaataa — in town to promote his cameo in Stan Lathan’s “Beat Street” — for the music magazine, NME. “I don’t think I’d ever really thought about Cannes, or the film festival, before I went,” Ridgers, widely celebrated for his distinctive portraits of British subcultures, told CNN via email.
A book of physique photography celebrates clandestine visual culture

1 month ago | wallpaper.com | Zoe May Whitfield

‘A friend who visits a lot, always sits at my desk (where I have all these pictures), and has never shown interest in them, really responded once he saw my edit,’ says the revered critic, collector and sometime curator Vince Aletti, reflecting on an early phase of his new monograph.
Director Amalia Ulman on her Chloe Sevigny-starring new film 'Magic Farm'

1 month ago | wallpaper.com | Zoe May Whitfield

The first image Amalia Ulman dreamed up while writing her sophomore feature involved a radiant green field and a bright blue sky. In Magic Farm, which the Argentine-Spanish filmmaker and conceptual artist also directs and stars in, the scene features her real life grandmother driving a motorcycle, the surrounding landscape an echo of the Windows XP wallpaper introduced by Microsoft in 2001. ‘I always saw it as colourful,’ Ulman shares over Zoom.
In ‘Bonjour Tristesse’, Miyako Bellizzi’s dreamy costumes tell a fashion story of their own

1 month ago | wallpaper.com | Zoe May Whitfield

A distinctive black and white image, one of Larry Clark’s Tulsa photographs from his controversial 1971 series, sits behind costume designer Miyako Bellizzi when we meet on Zoom in anticipation of her new project, Bonjour Tristesse.
This knitwear collaboration is a playful exploration of the role of the fashion critic

2 months ago | wallpaper.com | Zoe May Whitfield

First published in 2020, Dal Chodha’s Show Notes is comprised of the kind of writing that rarely, if ever, find an audience beyond their author: pretty alien to readers of fashion writing, wholly familiar to anyone who’s at some point been tasked with analysing a 20-minute catwalk show in real time. Key descriptors and, occasionally, whole sentences (but never full stops) are formatted almost like poetry, darting across white pages in varying lengths, to a strict but impulsive rhythm.
Inside Fondazione Prada’s exploration of 20th century German photography

2 months ago | dazeddigital.com | Zoe May Whitfield

16 Images On 20 November 1969, German photographer Heinrich Riebesehl spent a total of five hours and 35 minutes discreetly documenting the patrons of a lift in the building that housed Neue Hannoversche Presse, a daily newspaper published in Hanover between 1946-71.
Yorgos Lanthimos: ‘I love taking pictures, sometimes more than film’

2 months ago | dazeddigital.com | Zoe May Whitfield

As the first exhibition of photography by Lanthimos opens in LA, the visionary auteur tells Dazed about his relationship with the medium, building a darkroom during Poor Things and finding an unlikely assistant in Emma Stone8 With the arrival of his photo book Dear God, the Parthenon is still broken last May, Yorgos Lanthimos re-introduced fans to a world they already knew via his lens, having absorbed the distinctive attributes of the filmmaker’s work viewing Poor Things some months earlier.
8 brilliant new art documentaries you need to see

2 months ago | dazeddigital.com | Zoe May Whitfield

If your instinct after having seen an exhibition is to seek out more of the same, documentaries can be an good place to start. Lee Shulman’s definitive new study of one of Britain’s most celebrated and consistently prolific photographers,I Am Martin Parr, is a great counterpart toCommon Sense: Martin Parr, currently on show at Rocket in Hackney (through May 31).
8 brilliant new art documentaries you need to see

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Zoe May Whitfield

2 hours ago“I want to awaken a sense of reverence,” says photographer Gleeson Paulino of his solo show Echoes of the Amazon. “A reminder that we are not separate from nature, but a part of it; a call to remember, to respect, and to reconnect.” Paulino’s evocative photography explores the cultural, social and …