Atlas Gallery is delighted to announce the first solo exhibition of photographs by Chris Simpson in London. Simpson’s Carnets de Voyage series of images taken during his years travelling the world capture the beauty of the places he went - including Madagascar, Namibia, Cuba, the UK and the people he met there. The clean lines and pared-back compositions of the photographs lend Simpson’s work a sharpness that cuts straight to the heart of the subject matter and a gravity that addresses the power of the natural landscape.
Simpson was born in 1952 in Zurich, and was raised in Africa and Mauritius. His unique way of seeing was influenced by the exoticism of the natural world that surrounded him. Simpson’s photographs exemplify his innate understanding of the simplicity of natural beauty and form.
Chris Simpson
Carnets de Voyage
23 May – 22 Jun 2019
Atlas Gallery
49 Dorset Street
W1U 7NF London
www.atlasgallery.com
CHRIS SIMPSON, Anse Source d’Argent, Coin de Mire, Mauritius, 1990. Archival pigment print
CHRIS SIMPSON Dead Vlei IV – Namibia, 1996 Archival pigment print
CHRIS SIMPSON Luderitz I, Namibia, 2007 Archival pigment print
CARNETS DE VOYAGE. CHRIS SIMPSON. Two Men in a Canoe, Madagascar, 1997. Archival pigment print.
CHRIS SIMPSON Allée des Baobabs, Madagascar, 1997 Archival pigment print
CARNETS DE VOYAGE. CHRIS SIMPSON. Poplars, South Island, New Zeland, 2003. Archival pigment print.
