Othello De‘Souza-Hartley
From: The Line Series.
About:
Othello De’Souza-Hartley is a visual artist whose work embraces issues of identity. His imagery is an intoxicating paradox within a silent world; dark, but resolutely beautiful. Influenced by historical painting, he presents his subjects as components to an enigma, or indeed as enigmas themselves, neither touched by time extensions nor confined by age or race. De’Souza-Hartley seeks to unmask; to strip the veneer between a person and their world. His images are about revealing the psychological, social and emotional conditions of his characters.(text website artist)
From The Line Series.
Othello De’Souza-Hartley is a visual artist represented by Sulger-Buel Lovell Gallery working in the medium of photography and film. He received an MA in Fine Art from Camberwell College of Art and previously studied photography at Central St Martins.
All three from Masculinity Project.
Jan 2011 De’Souza-Hartley received an Arts Award from the University of Arts London.
De’Souza-Hartley is the recipient of a variety of commissions including the Museum of Liverpool, National Portrait Gallery, The Photographers’ Gallery, Victoria Albert Museum, Camden Arts Centre and Platform for Art. De’Souza-Hartley has had solo shows at The Camden Arts Centre and The Underground Gallery, in addition to appearing in group shows at the Gasworks Gallery and the APT gallery London
Africa Utopia.
His photography work has appeared in a range of magazines from, 160g Magazine, Le Journal De La Photographie, Trace Magazine, Neo 2, Monitor Magazine, The Guardian, Clam Magazine, and Amica Magazine.