![]() The portraits of young British soldiers who suffered life-altering injuries during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan engage the viewer through their unexpected directness.īryan Adams (*1959) is a Canadian singer, songwriter and photographic artist. In addition, the exhibition features selected works from Adams’ highly prized series, ‘Wounded – The Legacy of War’. The resulting works are extremely intimate and extremely enjoyable studies, which have much to say about the nature of fame and humanity. The palpable sense of trust is perhaps only made possible by the comrade and friendship behind the camera. They speak to us of beauty and desire, but also of worldly weariness and rebellion. Testifying to the ever-changing trends associated with fame in our modern world, they reveal the contact between the photographer and each of his subjects – always with the ironic awareness that photography is a staged event. Perhaps the best known of all of Adams’ photographs, they are also among the most captivating. ![]() The works selected for this exhibition center on his portraits of personalities from the worlds of entertainment, fashion and the arts. His work to date has won prestigious awards and captured the imagination of gallerygoers the world over. His meteoric rise in the world of photography is due above all to his rare talent for capturing timeless elegance and subtle depths in his images that are as visually alluring as they are stimulating. World-renowned of course as a musician and composer, Bryan Adams has carved out a solid reputation over the past ten years as an internationally acclaimed artist-photographer.
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