Open Studio is a temporary studio presenting the work of four London-based artists all working with photography; Roei Greenberg, Emil Lombardo, Gisela Torres and Isabelle Young. These artists do not currently have independent studio spaces therefore have come together to create this working space to welcome visitors to see their projects in progress, offering an insight into their working practices. Located within an ex-dairy warehouse in Marylebone the studio will host several events and talks to coincide with Photo London. 

Opening hours: By Appointment
Contact: contact@elombardo.co.uk
Address: 21 Plympton Place, Marylebone, London NW8 8AB

Artist Talk with Sacha Craddock
21 Plympton Street, Marylebone, London NW8 8AB
Thursday 16 May 2024, 6.30pm
Free to attend - no booking required
On occasion of Open Studio, Roei Greenberg, Emil Lombardo, Gisela Torres and Isabelle Young discuss their work and projects in progress with the art critic and curator Sacha Craddock.

Roei Greenberg is a London based artist who graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2020. His photographic practice is concerned with landscape as a complex intersection between culture, geography and autobiography. He grew up on a Kibbutz in Israel, located on the Lebanese border. The concept of boundaries (political and social) and the relations between land, power, belonging and legitimacy are amongst the issues investigated in his work. Combining an objective aesthetic with strong emphasis on research and critical approach, he creates multi-layered photographic perspectives; pictorial and alluring yet seeking to disrupt traditional modes of landscape representation. “Greenberg has developed a very idiosyncratic visual language in his work. The landscapes are seductive and almost hypnotising, drawing the viewer under their spell. But the appearance is too good to be true, because one does not trust the conjured harmony and an irony breaks its way in, which reveals the complexity of these pictures."  (Andreas Gursky)
www.roeigreenbergphotography.com  @roei_greenberg

Emil Lombardo is an Argentinian photographer based in London, with projects extending to Paris and Buenos Aires. Starting as a self-taught photographer, Emil dedicated years to refining his skills before pursuing a Photography MA at the Royal College of Art, graduating in 2021. Emil's work focuses on social issues that underscore the human condition. His photography seeks to illuminate the complexities and interconnections of society, from body politics and visibility to the intersections of identity, including gender, sexuality, immigration, race, and socio-economic status. More recently, Emil is setting his sights on photojournalism, eager to apply his eye for storytelling to current events and issues, hoping to engage a wider audience with his work.
https://elombardo.co.uk  @emil.lombardo

Gisela Torres (b. New York City) is a London based photographic artist with a BFA in Film and Video (Honours), School of Visual Arts, NYC and an MA in Photography Arts (Distinction), University of Westminster, London. Most recently her 3D print mapping video, Reverie and Slumber was part of the group show The Pleasure of Text at MBAL, Le Locle, Switzerland. She is a winner of Peckham 24 Open Call with the installation Looking for Edmonia (Self-Portrait) in 2022 and has exhibited in Climate in 2022 and Reclaiming Magic in 2021 at The Royal Academy Summer Shows. Her practice engages with still and moving images, self-portraiture, performance, sculpture, print making, assemblages and emerging media to reimagine narratives of under-represented histories, body politics and mourning.
www.giselatorres.com @giselafoto

Isabelle Young (b. 1989, London, UK) is an artist working between London, UK and Italy who graduated from the Royal College of Art, London with an MA in Photography (2022). Isabelle Young: Stills, her first solo exhibition in London with Galerie Fabian Lang, presented a photographic series rooted in neorealist cinema (2023). She recently curated the exhibition Painting with Light at 79 Wardour Street and online with Vortic Curated (2023). The architectural form is central to her photography which Young approaches as an unreliable narrator who, akin to the cinematographer or novelist, is also omnipresent within the world she has created. Collections include Credit Suisse Collection, Switzerland; Museo Casa Mollino, Turin, Italy; Katrin Bellinger Collection, London, UK; Simmons and Simmons, London, UK; and Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy.
www.isabelle-young.co.uk  @isabellelyoung