Jonathan Anderson (1965) & Edwin Low (1969) aka ANDERSON & LOW (Collab. Since 1990) - UK

Forest defender – Ptography archival pigment print - L 148 x H 115 cm – 2010 – Edition 2/5 - Edition number 1 : Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Gallery certificate will be given to the buyer. Jonathan Anderson and Edwin Low have been collaborating as the team “Anderson & Low” since 1990. Their work includes portraiture, nudes, architectural studies, abstract images, reportage, landscape, and highly disciplined studio-based images. They are currently working on a new color study in the concepts of identity, culture and costume that explores a hybrid art-form and involving photography, graphics and calligraphy. Anderson and Low are best known for their elegant portraits of athletes, military cadets, and circus performers. For their most recent project, Manga Dreams, they worked with teenagers and young adults on a series of portraits inspired by the extravagantly stylized figures of Japanese manga and anime. Together, the artists and models developed fictional identities based on archetypal characters—warrior, princess, gangster, street punk—and portrayed them by means of elaborate costumes, hairstyles, makeup, and digital image manipulation. The final photographs, as in this portrait of a young warrior crouching in a flat, cartoonish landscape, are exuberant cross-cultural hybrids of fantasy and reality. September 2015, Anderson & Low were awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society. Museums and Collections Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA Cleveland Museum Of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA The Baltimore Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio, USA Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California, USA Worcester Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Masschusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont, USA South East Photography Museum, Daytona Beach, Florida, USA United States Olympic Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK National Portrait Gallery, London, UK Science Museum, London, UK Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, UK Wilson Centre for Photography Elton John Collecton Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France Brandts Museet Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark Statoil Art Collection National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia