Peter-John Freeman at Cape Town Art Fair 2013
A new series of black-and-white portraits by Peter-John Freeman (born 1975) will be the central exhibit on Deon Viljoen's stand at the inaugural Cape Town Art Fair (25-27 October 2013).
Freeman is a Stellenbosch-based artist with a strong interest in black-and-white portraiture. The images to be shown, from an ongoing project simply called Station portraits, are of commuters, vendors and characters found in and around the Du Toit railway station in Stellenbosch. With these portraits Freeman manages to convey his subject’s individuality and personal ‘colour’, despite the fact that they all were photographed against the same drab grey-painted walls of the station. Freeman’s achievement lies in his discerning eye and technical control of his medium in an environment continuously in motion. He neither caricatures nor patronises his subjects. Read on ...
