cars & landscape photography
Jun 2007
George Kavanagh's powerful seascape peppered with gravestones (shot by Alex Howe) recently advertised Ghosts by idiosyncratic film-maker Nick Broomfield with much poignancy - many people keenly moved by the horrific drowning of 23 illegal Chinese cockle-pickers at Morecombe Bay, UK in 2004.
Award-winning images of the longest-ever hoarding scaffold in Dubai is a fascinating, almost abstract, collection bursting with dynamic construction on the one hand; yet, on the other hand, George is commenting on the juxtaposition of advertising massive wealth and the exploitation of the worker.
Stepping into the surreal with Canon, George's stunning new campaign, through Tequila, harks back to Magritte, compelling us to explore a slightly dark and disconcerting world....