April Dawn Alison British often lying in the shadows

often lying in the shadows of industrial decline

and the opposite extreme with loose available-light photographs saturated with colour

the darkroom is founded on a fundamental belief in photography as a universal and therapeutic language

the German image in photographs from a variety of scenarios in the post-war period

Berlin 2013 / Galerie im Taxispalais

April Dawn Alison British often lying in the shadowsMade over the course of some thirty years, the photographs in this book depict the many faces of April Dawn Alison, the female persona of an Oakland, California based photographer who lived in the world as a man. This previously unseen body of self portraits, which was given to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2017, begins tentatively in 1970s in black and white, and evolves in the 80s into an exuberant, wildly colourful, and obsessive