Photography meets Art - Miles Aldridge

To celebrate the opening of the new Tate Britain, Tate invited Fashion photographer Miles Aldridge to create a series of photographic prints, inspired by art.  Aldridge chose Mark Gertler’s painting ’Merry-Go-Round’, from 1916, and in this film we follow his creative process as he re-imagines it through his lens. Painted at the height of the First World War, Gertler’s painting shows rigid figures, seemingly trapped on an endlessly-revolving carousel.  Gertler lived near London’s Hampstead Heath, and the im