Love By Derrick Santini

About

Derrick Santini will present a special collection of 9 lenticular works that span all his three series of works to date, all themed on the eternal and elemental nature of Love and indeed Sex.

For Santini, lenticular is story telling concentrated in one PIECE, a perfect balance between still image and a film. The photographer started his lenticular journey in 2008 by shooting three panels with Gwendoline Christie, and fell in love with the medium.

“As a photographer I have spent my life searching out something to photo- graph, hunting illusive moments, and channelling desired ones. These decisive moments, split seconds in time, create a photograph which in its self, is the very essence of the Art of photography. Amazing, incredible timeless moments, seen, cajoled spirited but ultimately captured in that moment and thus born.” – Santini states.

He continues - “Film is the other medium I covert, the power of suggestion and universality of film is truly awesome, equalled only by the abstract and arresting nature of a photograph.

What brings these worlds together, spawning their own beguiling incarnation are lenticulars. On one side I love the specificness of film but love equally, the abstractness of photography. The lenticular encompasses both these dictums, and hence its growing fascination with me as a technique and medium to create and communicate with.”

Santini’s lenticulars have a garnered a great deal of critical praise,  and secured some serious collectors including Damien Hirst, Adel, Lakshimi Mittal and Jemima Khan.

‘Love’ runs till 29th February at Paul Raymond’s Soho Revue above the legendary Madam Jo Jo’s space in London, Soho