Henry Bourne exhibition, London

Henry Bourne, a Wallpaper* contributing photographer, has an exhibition of his extra-curricular work opening in London today.

See more of Bourne's work

Though still photographs, the pictures on show in the venue on Exhibition Road are not from his vast collection of editorial or advertising commissions but from his own personal archive.

Working around the globe on shoots and always working to the brief of a creative director left Bourne with a hunger to show the things he noticed away from the sets and scenery. These photographs are the results.

At first the pictures appear to be just snapshots of daily existence, an empty corridor, or a fly-posted wall. But on closer inspection they show Bourne’s canny eye for recording human presence in the absence of people. Each picture feels a bit like a portrait without the sitter.

6 November 2008 | Art