Everything was green at 20 Hoxton Square this week as Kilimanjaro Magazine Edits opened: forget the environment, it was the plentiful absinthe imparting a verdant hue.
The show features photos from Kilimanjaro, a self-described "vibrant printed space", and by common consent there was one heart-stopping beauty: Charlotte Rampling shot by Henry Roy, a Haitian expat. The photo catches Rampling in a distressed moment, looking away from the camera with a smear of bright pink lipstick providing the only colour. (The online version doesn't come close.)
Robi Rodriguez and J.H Engstrom were among the other photogs, and Alex Hoda provided rubberised sculptures of dogs mounting pigs, only with found objects interposed.
Alex Dellal, who runs the gallery, was on most affable form as he explained that the reason the photos were mounted in a weird system of created corridors was to reflect the unusual origami of the magazine itself. Even without the absinthe that would have made perfect sense.
And thanks in part to the fashionable connections of Alex's sister, Alice, the crowd was hipper than a night in the orthopaedics ward.
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