Wednesday 18 November 7pm
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At London Art Fair in January 2020, during my internship with the L A Noble Gallery, I was proud to work on the very successful Photo 50 show Occupy the Void, guest curated by Laura Noble. It was in this show that I met Kim Shaw, a highly motivating, an incredibly kind and impressive woman who has a passion for photography.
Photography is in Kim Shaw’s blood. Her great-grandfather was a portrait photographer who worked from his 5th Avenue studio in New York. However, Shaw began her career in advertising, but then came back to her passion for photography after an assignment in Paris, a city she says was full of artists and dreamers.
Shaw studied photography the Pacific Northwest College of Art and then in 1997, armed with a pinhole camera and a Holga, she decided to go it alone in photography after attending a workshop run by Don Kirby and Stu Levy on the Oregon Coast sparked an interest in her in the expressive potential of landscape photography.
Shaw’s work has been featured in numerous group shows, including exhibitions at the White Sturgeon and the North Bank galleries in Vancouver, Washington and at the Portland State University Museum of Art. Her work is held in the permanent collection at the Broad Art Museum in East Lansing, Michigan. In 2014, her first solo show, “Paper Ghosts,” was held at Jenny Blyth Fine Art. Since then, her work has been shown at Soho Photo Gallery in NYC as a part of their international competition, Krappy Kamera, on three occasions. In 2017, she was named overall winner. In 2018, Kim was nominated for the Royal Photographic Society’s 100Heroines, and in 2019 her work was included in the RPS Heroines’ exhibition in London and Blackpool. In February 2020, her work was featured in London Art Fair’s curated exhibition “Photo50.” She has been featured in Huck, Photomonitor, BBC online, Uncertain States and the weekend FT.
Currently Kim Shaw is an Executive Director at Photofusion.