Paddy Summerfield, Untitled 20 April 2023
After twenty-five years of urging by his friend, the distinguished photographer John Goto, Summerfield finally acquired a limited, lo-tech digital camera, so limited that the pictures yielded unforeseen (and usually unrepeatable) vagaries of flare, colour shift, distorted perspective, and other oddness.
The prismatic shards and the unpredictable effects intensify Summerfield's photography, yet viewers familiar with his work will recognise the composites, the unfocused glimpses, the pattern of echoes that have appeared within his black and white work over decades.
These are his final images. The exhibition also includes a collection of the photographer’s early photographs.
Paddy Summerfield
Beginnings and Endings
ronapainting gallery
34 Walton St,
Oxford,
OX2 6AA
23 October–
15 November
Tuesday–Saturday 11am–5pm
Private View
Thursday 23 October 6-8pm. All welcome.
