New Utopias #6

Born in London in 1964, Miles Aldridge is a fashion photographer who graduated from London's Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 1987. He came to prominence in the 1990s for his glamorous, colorful photographs. His photographs feature surrealist and pop stagings, which tend to exaggerate social stereotypes in order to reveal their shortcomings. According to the artist, documenting reality can be less honest than staging it. As a result, her photographs take the form of cinematic clichés, in which the female figure is often the main character. His work received worldwide acclaim after publication in Vogue magazine in 1996, and has since appeared in magazines such as The New York Times Magazine and Haper's Bazaar. He has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including at the Fotografiska Museum in New York and Stockholm in 2021, and at the Lumiere Brothers Photography Centre in Moscow in 2019. His work has also been included in prestigious museum collections, including those of the Albert Museum and the British Museum in London, the Fondation Carmignac in Paris and the International Centre of Photography in New York.