ABOUT
Luke White is a British photographer based in London. White’s work challenges expected boundaries in its investigation of a wide range of subject-matter, from landscape and portraiture to the human form. Having had an international childhood growing up in India, Peru, Massachusetts and Paris, White started his career in the late 1990s as an assistant fashion-photographer working in Paris, London and New York.
Already established as a commercial photographer by the early 2000s, White began working on portraiture, interiors and architecture. A turning point came when in 2014 he was invited to lecture at the Sorbonne University in Paris. Preparing for these lectures rekindled his interest in a more conceptual approach to his work and for the art of photography.
Following an artist's residency at Hammersmith's Re:Centre in 2019, White has been working on a series of experimental large-format analogue photographs depicting both the human form and the environment. White's work plays with our contemporary notion of a photograph as the immediate product of a fast process. Whether he has manipulated his images digitally or printed them in his darkroom on an unexpected surface such as ceramic, White's prints are the result of a painstaking and considered process that creates new and engaging resonances.
His recent acclaimed series Solar - created using the solar plate intaglio printing method - was exhibited in London and across the UK in 2020 and 2021.
White's work has been published widely: in international magazines, and in numerous books on architecture and design. His portrait photographs have twice been selected for the prestigious Taylor Wessing Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery.
June 2024 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition - Royal Academy
March 2024 Group Show “Olympiade” - Bakery Gallery London
February 2023 Solo Exhibition Rebecca Hossack Gallery London
October 2021 Group Show Pollen Collective “ Circle” - 44 Great Russell Street London
May 2021 Group Show Pollen Collective - One Paved Court Richmond London
April 2020 Woolwhich Print Fair London
March 2020 Group Show - RE:Center London