SoCal PhotoExchange

This video speaks for itself.

By Jim McKinniss

Photo 3-D copyright by Miles Aldridge

Photo Home Works #3 copyright by Miles Aldridge

The Fahey/Klein Gallery is pleased to present the upcoming exhibition, “The Pure Wonder” a retrospective exhibition featuring work by London based contemporary photographer Miles Aldridge. Equally obsessed with women and with color, photographer Miles Aldridge masterfully creates visually compelling images. Working in the manner of a filmmaker, Aldridge’s world is a confluence of dream and reality. His images contain hyper-real scenes occupied by impossibly beautiful women, each an embodiment of seeming perfection. Every image however belies a darker sense of mystery and unease. Staring off vacantly, a beautiful blonde stabs a birthday cake with a knife, screams into a phone, or nonchalantly lights her cigarette on a stove while the gas flames lick her hair. Each arresting scene Aldridge has created explores the complex dualities of contemporary life– perfection and damage, violence and passivity, the mundane and the bizarre. Aldridge has simultaneously created both a dream world and a nightmare where anxiety, melancholy, and boredom seem so beautiful, it is impossible to look away.

This show runs September 10th – October 17th

Reception for the Artist: Thursday, September 10th, 7 – 9 pm

Fahey/Klein is located at 148 North La Brea, Los Angeles, CA 90036

Phone: (323) 934-2250 Fax: (323) 934-4243 –

By Jim McKinniss