David Stewart: Photography

The first monograph on the first photographer to be awarded the Prize for Editorial, Advertising & Fashion Photography by the Royal Photographic Society, this extraordinary collection celebrates David Stewart’s surreal eye and his literal focus on the unusual, the bizarre and the deadpan presentation of the unexpected. Meticulously composed tableaux create off-centre observations of everyday life that are simultaneously familiar and disturbing. This groundbreaking survey of of a lifetime of looking, thinking, composing and creating exceptional photographic compositions of the absurdity, comedy and nightmarish potential of everyday life will resonate with all.

David Stewart is an award-winning photographer and director whose forty year career takes inspiration from the strangeness of everyday life, people, and pop culture. From photographing The Clash and The Ramones to BAFTA nomination, the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize and fifteen years of National Portrait Galley exhibition at their annual Portrait Prize his extremely sophisticated work takes pleasure in juxtaposing the familiar and the bizarre, celebrating the very narrow divide between the two.