John Riddy's London

YT, 2015

"The artist's intensely considered photographs of London are a result of finding the "point of stillness" that is "absolutely and completely right" for each scene"


John Riddy (born 1959) is a British photographer who came to the fore after his solo exhibition at Camden Arts Centre in 2000.
his bibliography http://www.johnriddy.net/bibliography.html

• John Riddy: Photographs (2019), essay by Michael Fried and conversation with James Welling, edited by Liz Jobey, Göttingen: Steidl, ISBN 978-3-95829-566-7
• John Riddy: Views from Shin-Fuji (2013), published by Frith Street Books, London ISBN 978-0-9567757-0-2
• John Riddy: Palermo (2013), published by Frith Street Books, London ISBN 978-0-9567757-1-9
• John Riddy – 8 Skies (2004), published by Frith Street Gallery and Paul Andriesse ISBN 90-73215-12-9
• John Riddy (2000), published by Camden Arts Centre in association with the de la Warr Pavilion ISBN 978-1900470124
• John Riddy: Praeterita (2000), published by the Ruskin School of Drawing ISBN 978-0953852505
• Rome, published by Lawrence Markey Gallery, New York, 1999

I always appreciate it when sasah zib introduces me to a photographer new to me. Thanks.

I saw Riddy's work at an exhibition in a local museum a couple of years ago. I was pretty much blown off my feet. Sometimes the work of a photographer just feels so...familiar. And executed to absolute perfection, too.

sasah zib said:

John Riddy: Photographs (2019), essay by Michael Fried and conversation with James Welling, edited by Liz Jobey, Göttingen: Steidl, ISBN 978-3-95829-566-7

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My girlfriend gave me this one for my birthday recently. It's gorgeous...
(Coincidentally, she found Riddy's photography completely boring and uninteresting. I can only pray for her soul.)

A different approach than I have seen elsewhere.

certainly no 3 second look and swipe left!