Viewpoints

The Viewfinder Photography Gallery is pleased to present ‘Viewpoints’, an exhibition of documentary-style photographic projects by Mahtab Hussain, Jonathan Illingworth and Andrew Youngson.

© Mahtab Hussain

© Mahtab Hussain

© Andrew Youngson

© Andrew Youngson

© Jonathan Illingworth

© Jonathan Illingworth

Mahtab Hussain, Building Desires: Mahtab Hussain’s photographic practise attempts to answer the question, ‘what is a British Pakistani and if such label exists, what does it mean to the individual?’ Building Desires is a photographic investigation of the Pakistani male community and the idea of a ‘performance of masculinity'. Hussain’s work questions the need to demonstrate aggressive masculinity and why this has become a definition in the Pakistani male community of what a man should be.

Jonathan Illingworth, End of My Journey: Jonathan Illingworth has created a three-part series of photographs documenting his daily commute. Along the way strange themes and occurrences emerged. This final chapter of his journey is enigmatic, a project at the end of its days with a fate undecided. Thus an otherwise banal documentary project becomes an inner reflection of insecurity, waiting for the day that destiny catches up with us.

Andrew Youngson, The Devil’s Garden: Andrew Youngson documented the people and places he encountered traveling from Alexandria to Libya where beneath a featureless desert the Axis and Allied minefields have over seven decades drifted from where they were originally sown during the desert war. It is believed thousands of Bedouin have been killed or injured since the end of hostilities in this area.