TOTEMS

An exhibition by Harry Carter

A young man with tattoos on his arms, wearing a black tank top and baggy pants, stands in a white art studio, surrounded by four large abstract collages on black backgrounds leaning against the white walls.
Black and white poster for an art exhibition titled 'Harry Carter Exhibition Totems,' featuring a close-up of a person's face. The event is on May 4th, 2-7pm, at Photomafia Studios, 10 Nene Enterprise Centre, Freehold Street, NN2 6EF.

Artist Harry Carter presented Totems on the 4th of May 2024, inviting us to conduct a deeper investigation into the relationship between images and text, focusing on the language of photography and its intersection with written word.

Totems presented four large mixed media pieces combining collages of black and white snapshot photography, painting and written poetry. Each piece playing with the interplay between text and image all lying at different points between the two mediums.

From our time talking with Harry he expressed a frustration with photography as a medium by itself, this state of ennui led him to filter his writing back into his photographic work and exploring the space where those two worlds collided.

A recent graduate from Falmouth University, Harry shows no sign of slowing down his artistic practice, Totems came alongside his latest photobook Unface (Silver+) a compilation of work up until now, exploring the morality of photography.

A person with curly hair in a sleeveless shirt is standing in an art gallery, writing or drawing on the wall, which has black and white photographs and faint handwritten notes.
An art gallery corner with four framed photographs on the white wall, a patterned artwork leaning against the wall, a table with maps nearby, and sunlight streaming through a window creating shadows on the floor.