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“Brasilia” adds to a body of work that includes “Osaka”, “Moscow”, “Shanghai”, “London”, “New York” and “Las Vegas”.
“The virtue of the city is that it provides an abundance of forms and chance encounters. When recorded, they become a catalogue of the photographer's values. My cities are places where people shelter in solitude, or strive to make their voices heard. They are microcosms of calmness and emptiness, where the camera records the quality of light and the quality of things.” John MacLean 2006.
Born in Buckinghamshire in 1969, John MacLean began to use a camera at the age of 14. In 1985 he discovered the work of Garry Winogrand, Robert Frank, Lewis Baltz and John Gossage through the book “American Images” (Penguin). Published to coincide with an exhibition at The Barbican, it revealed the camera's potential as a means of salvaging the visible world.
MacLean, a graduate of Photography at Derby, now works as a freelance architectural photographer based in London. However, he continues to produce personal work for exhibitions and books. “21 Recent Photographs”, published last year, is available at the Photographer's Gallery, Great Newport Street, London. He has worked with Millennium Images since 2005.
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