Paddy Summerfield, Oxford Pictures 35
This substantial retrospective of the work of photographer Paddy Summerfield shows the stages of his creative evolution through comprehensive installations inspired by his five major publications as well as other significant bodies of work.
Paddy Summerfield (1947–2024) was a photographer who developed a new psychological vision of photography, turning the camera on the innermost workings of the human mind and heart.
Despite an ongoing battle with bipolar disorder, leading the photographer to continue living with his parents in Oxford, Summerfield rose to prominence in the 1980s. Later, his five critically acclaimed publications depicted Summerfield’s most intense and enduring photographic obsessions: desire and alienation.
This substantial retrospective of the photographer’s work shows the stages of Summerfield’s creative evolution through comprehensive installations inspired by his five major publications as well as other significant bodies of work.
The exhibition also offers a glimpse of both the physicality and mastery of Summerfield's unique and idiosyncratic relationship with the craft of photographic print making.
Paddy Summerfield
The Camera Helps
Blackwell Hall, Weston Library
Broad Street,
Oxford,
OX1 3BG
11 October–30 November
Curators Tour:
Saturday 25 October, 4pm - Patricia Baker-Cassidy & Alex Schneideman in Conversation
