From his teenage depictions of Brighton’s skateboarders to his Hitchcockian-lit 90s Prada campaigns, Glen Luchford’s raw and vivid images have come to redefine a new visual language of fashion photography over the past three decades. Now, a new exhibition, Atlas, dedicated to the British-born fashion photographer and portraitist, opens today (September 25) in Milan at the 10-Corso-Como Gallery. Running until November 11, the show marks Luchford’s first-ever solo exhibition, conceived and designed by the photographer himself as a dynamic, site-specific journey through his oeuvre.
With a career spanning 30 years, his work has transgressed many visual binaries. Whether it be a melodramatically supine Stella Tennant bathed in a rosy Wong Kar Wai-esque light, the stony-faced model positioned strikingly next to a stuffed tiger in his SS17 Gucci campaign, or Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore captured in dreamlike motion for the cover of Another Man, Luchford’s work is underpinned by a marriage between the cinematic and the subcultural.
Luchford’s expansive visual universe, described by the photographer himself as a “visual orgy”, will be displayed at 10-Corso-Como in a way that encompasses the full dynamism of his work. The exhibition will showcase some of the photographer’s most famed shots and fashion campaigns, including his now-iconic images of a young Kate Moss, taken while Luchford was still a self-taught photographer for The Face magazine.
Luchford’s distinct editorial imagery will be available to view in conjunction with collages, outtakes, mistakes and personal images, offering a unique and layered perspective into his working practice. Visitors will also be able to view a never-before-seen installation of his most notable fashion films, mirroring a connectivity between the static and the mobile (described by Luchford as “an in-between moment”) that reinforces the filmic flavour of much of his work.
Glen Luchford’s Atlas is on display at 10-Corso-Como Gallery in Milan until 11 November 2025.