Jonathan May

Date
15 February 2012

The world captured through Jonathan May’s lens looks pretty bonkers. The eccentric subjects he documents seem like caricatures and parodies of their context. He embraces a sense of absurdity – way too muscly men, lamas etc – as well as building a clear concept and narrative. Looking through his portfolio of personal, portrait and advertising work, it’s often unclear how staged the scenarios really are. May’s talents have been acknowledged worldwide: The Embrace was exhibited as part of the Taylor Wessing Portrait prize 2011 and he was voted by Luerzer’s Archive Magazine in the top 200 Ad photographers worldwide for 2012/2013.

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