Kevin Mackintosh

20 September 2022

The works from Kevin Mackintosh’s near decade-long photographic project are notable for the perceived ancient ‘mysticism’ of Africa fusing seamlessly with his own legacy of European fables: his effortless grasp of Fellini-esque surrealism with contemporary magical realism and his strangely unquiet magpie interiors of memories and objects lost and found, form part of Mackintosh’s’s universe – a meeting of landscape, still-life, culture, fashion, and theatre. At once an homage to the work of legendary photographers Sadibé, Keïta and Sanlé; Mackintosh, through considered sets, backdrops, props, and styling, creates his world entirely, and in doing so both reconstructs and modernizes the idea of the classic posed portrait.
Mackintosh’s work is featured in the Permanent Collection of the National Portrait Gallery (London), as well as multiple photography publications.