Laras 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, lofi punk kids and the immediacy of this pointandshoot aesthetic can still be felt in his editorial work, albeit for the slightly less lofi likes of V Magazine, Self Service and numerous international Vogue editions. His third solo exhibition, PUNK. PERFECT. 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 fashionfocussed, 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