Johnnie Shand Kydd goes to the heart of Italy

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That character clearly seduced Johnnie Shand Kydd, who devoted eight years to photographing Naples’ people, buildings and customs. The result is no travelogue but a personal, poetic exploration of its dark religious corners, bizarre customs in the transvestite community, everyday scenes including boys playing football using a goal painted on a church wall, a woman leaning on the balcony, smoking, and three posed Cadets outside Cade Gambrinus.

Throughout the exhibition, Shand Kydd’s cinematographic eye is at work: Three boys on Mappatella Beach and Father, daughter and dog (on a Vespa scooter) could all come straight from a Sixties Visconti film. His use of a Rolleiflex camera and black-and-white film endows the photographs with a timelessness and, for the paganistic-Catholic rituals of Easter, a mysterious tension.

He avoids sentimentality and constantly finds humour, is detached while being seduced. And the results are old-fashioned and without tricks, and possess a maturity lacking in the portraits which made his name, of YBAs in the Nineties.

Until September 12. 020 7704 9522, estorickcollection.com

Johnnie Shand Kydd: Siren City, Naples
Estorick Collection
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