Jamie Maxtone Graham at Culture Hall

Hanoi photographer Jamie Maxtone-Graham‘s recent series of portraits has just been featured at curated online resource for contemporary art Culture Hall curated and with an essay by Emily Carter.

This series along with three other artists is presented under the title Holding Places in which, the curator contends, each of the photographers has described something specific out of the general and made it somehow universal.

Jamie wrote:

When Evening Comes: Night Market Portraits

The photographs in this body of work came to be out of a couple of different but complimentary impulses. The first was a simple curiosity of what the Long Bien night market in Hanoi, Vietnam – where I have lived since 2007 – actually looked like at night. I have often been past the market during the day when it is closed and very little, if anything, is ever happening. It is, in fact, asleep. I found it is an entirely different place after night falls.

The second, more personal, challenge for myself was to make photographs in a different mode – both technically and aesthetically – and to engage the subjects, the people who work and even live in the night market, in a manner that required collaboration and ultimately a trust. I wanted to bring some of the aesthetic of the studio into the street and to do this at night in this venue – a rough wholesale fruit and vegetable market in a tough section of the city near the Red River – seemed both absurd and entirely logical. I like that kind of friction…

Please check out Culture Hall’s official website to read the rest of Jamie’s writing.

You may also want to take a look at Jamie Maxtone Graham’s new website.