Photography: Eric Ruby paints a portrait of mortality in this stark series

Date
26 March 2014

Eric Ruby is based in Massachussetts, USA, which to my somewhat geographically-illiterate brain is about as far away from urban London as I can imagine. Indeed it must be, if the photographs from his series Do Not Go Gentle are anything to go by. Creating a new image of mortality from a juxtaposition of portraiture and landscape photography, Eric alludes to the very famous Dylan Thomas poem, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, using a desert-like setting which is all the more alluring for its strangeness. Bleak expanses of bleached white sand littered with gravelly stones sit next to images of the life-worn wrinkled faces of several old men, interspersed with ambiguously boney, feathery creatures. It’s a curiously arranged series, but it works a treat.

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Eric Ruby: Do Not Go Gentle

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Eric Ruby: Do Not Go Gentle

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Eric Ruby: Do Not Go Gentle

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Eric Ruby: Do Not Go Gentle

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Eric Ruby: Do Not Go Gentle

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Eric Ruby: Do Not Go Gentle

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Eric Ruby: Do Not Go Gentle

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Maisie Skidmore

Maisie joined It’s Nice That fresh out of university in the summer of 2013 as an intern before joining full time as an Assistant Editor. Maisie left It’s Nice That in July 2015.

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