Miles Aldridge re-imagines Mark Gertler’s ’Merry-Go-Round’
Follow the fashion photographer and provocateur as he interprets the British painter's artwork in honour of the newly redesigned Tate Britain
To celebrate the redesigned Tate Britain, fashion photographer and provocateur Miles Aldridge was among several of the country’s top creative minds invited by the Tate to re-envision an artwork from the gallery’s vast collection. Aldridge chose British artist Mark Gertler's ‘Merry-Go-Round’, painted in 1916 at the height of WWI, and the film follows his creative process as he re-imagines it through his lens.
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