Close Gallery’s current exhibition, Forget Me Not, has been featured in the Financial Times luxury magazine How to Spend It, both in print and online now, highlighting the work of photographer Philip Sinden.
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Photographer Philip Sinden is putting his focus on tailoring
In late 2018, after almost 20 years of shooting fashion campaigns and editorials, Scottish-Pakistani photographer Philip Sinden swapped high-production sets for a simple artist’s studio in Bow, east London. Working only with charity-shop finds, a stylist, little equipment (not even a tripod) and emerging models, Sinden took a series of intimate portraits.
In soft focus and with natural light he captured the buttery textures of Turnbull & Asser shirts and tailored trousers, tapping into something he had long been interested in. “I have always liked the structure of tailoring,” says Sinden. “My father often wore suits and bow ties.” Nine of Sinden’s photographs, spanning this series as well as close-ups of flowers and landscapes taken on 5x4in film, are being exhibited at Close Gallery in Somerset, alongside works by photographers Andrew Cross and Mariano Vivanco and artist Denise Webber that explore memory as resilience. “Photography, for me, is partly an act of holding on,” says Sinden.
by ELLA MANSELL
Forget Me Not runs at CLOSE Gallery from 7 March - 11 April 2026. Open Thursday and Friday 11-4 and Saturday 11-3.
