Up-and-coming fashion photographer Chadwick Taylor has landed his first solo gallery exhibition at the Honey Space in New York. The black and white series Tiberius features 52 emerging and established models in scenes reminiscent of the drought-stricken Southern Plains of the 1930s Depression. Tyler’s work is dominated by a successive series of delicate yet distressed figures […]
Chadwick Tyler At Honey Space
Up-and-coming fashion photographer Chadwick Taylor has landed his first solo gallery exhibition at the Honey Space in New York. The black and white series Tiberius features 52 emerging and established models in scenes reminiscent of the drought-stricken Southern Plains of the 1930s Depression.
Tyler’s work is dominated by a successive series of delicate yet distressed figures of high-fashion. Taking place in a small outdoor space on the porch of a four-storey building in Chelsea, the sequence deconstructs conventional beauty by placing models in macabre settings of loneliness and destitution. ‘Dirt is a part of everything that is beautiful,’ Taylor remarks, ‘and everything that is ugly in life. It is a broad range, but past that, I just like it. Nuances inspire me.’
Hailing from small-town Florida, Taylor’s own experience has been shaped by an upbringing of ‘storybook Americana’. The now New York-based photographer has featured in a number of indie mags including Tank, Qvest Plastique and is a favourite among big names such as Alexander Wang. His exhibition runs through to March 12.
Written by Emma Paterson
Images from Dazed Digital
