Lara’s Theme by Matt Irwin

from ’Awful’ is seldom a word used by any aspiring photographer to describe their work, but neverthless it’s one of just three adjectives chosen by Matt Irwin for his latest solo exhibition - the other being, perhaps more understandably, ’Punk’ and ’Perfect’. With equal honesty, Irwin describes his start as ’taking pictures of fucked up, lo-fi punk kids’ - and the immediacy of this point-and-shoot aesthetic can still be felt in his editorial work, albeit for the slightly less lo-fi likes of V Magazine, Self Service and numerous international Vogue editions. His third solo exhibition, ’PUNK. PERFECT. AWFUL.’ promises more of the same - inspired suitably enough by a Hole lyric, Irwin intends the exhibition to link his earlier work with his arguably more polished, and certainly more fashion-focussed, current output. That said, the work is no less about the subject, and certainly no less personal: witness the above film or, more abstractly, the above ’moving still’ - of mod