Christopher Broadbent "Here today..." photo show

The photographic exhibition Christopher Broadbent “Here today […]” will be held in the Spazio BIG Santa Marta in Milan’s 5VIE neighbourhood

Since the 80’s he has turned to editorial and advertising photography, working frequently on commissions in northern Europe and the USA. From habit - and swimming against the digital tide, Broadbent uses a view-camera, long exposures and sheet film - tools with a strong link to craftsmanship. He builds the simple structures of traditional still-life with an orthogonal point-of-view, a few horizontal perspective planes and the chiaroscuro of window light. Broadbent became known in the fields of illustrative photography and short commercials for his use of light and composition, winning international recognition and some coveted awards

In 2000, he decided to dedicate his time to still-life photography as an art-form in where immediacy gives place to time indefinite. This is how his still-life images and the series “Here today […]” came to be (from the saying ‘here today, gone tomorrow’): here everyday things are actors on a stage suspended in time, perhaps forgotten or put aside the shadows. Occasionally, there are flowers just surviving. Broadbent represents the fading away of time, through images in which light becomes a tool that explores the present moment and the passing beauty

Spazio BIG Santa Marta Via Santa Marta 10