Tag: photography

Hawthorne & Heaney visits ‘Wonderful Things’ at the V & A Museum

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‘Tim Walker: Wonderful Things’ is the new exhibition on at the V& A Museum this winter. Looking at the works of fashion photographer, Tim Walker; expect to be amazed and delighted by the fantastical worlds he creates for his photographs and the stunning presentation of them by world leading design museum, The Victoria and Albert […]

Hawthorne & Heaney visits the Night & Day Exhibition

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Beautiful sequined gown, early to mid-1930s. Sequins became popular in the 1920s, inspired by the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb. (1922) The 1930s followed the decade of the roaring 20’s, with the Wall Street crash in 1929, the years that followed saw a great deal of change for Britain and America. With the 1930s, came the […]

Frida Kahlo: Making Herself Up – Exhibition Visit

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The exhibition Frida Kahlo: Making Herself Up is currently at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and we recently took the chance to visit. This unique show gives a detailed overview of Kahlo’s life: her family and heritage; her politics; her relationship with mural painter Diego Rivera; the near-fatal accident that caused her a […]

Hawthorne & Heaney Visits the Louise Dahl-Wolfe Exhibiton

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The Fashion and Textiles Museum, London, has just opened an exhibition dedicated to Louise Dahl- Wolfe, an American photographer who is credited with modernising fashion photography. The exhibition spans the the whole of the long gallery as well as part of the upper area. It looks at Dahl-Wolfe’s early works and how she defined the […]

Hawthorne & Heaney Visits Burberry: Here We Are Exhibition

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Last month Burberry held an exhibition of British photography, in celebration of their September 2017 collection at the Old Sessions House which is a Grade II listed building. The exhibition spaned out across three floors in 14 unique rooms and was curated by Christopher Bailey, Alasdair McLellan and Lucy Kumara. The British photography used within […]

Hawthorne & Heaney at ‘Vogue 100: A Century of Style’

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The National Portrait Gallery hosts to an exhibition reflecting back on the last 100 years of Britain’s most well known fashion magazine, Vogue. Last week, Hawthorne & Heaney’s Intern Philippa Martin went to check it out for us. Vogue 100: A Century of Style sign   Every 10 years has a dedicated room to explore the […]

Hawthorne & Heaney for Sam Faulkner’s ‘Unseen Waterloo’

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Hawthorne & Heaney have been working very closely with Photographer, Sam Faulkner on his ambitious, most recent project entitled, Unseen Waterloo. For this project he has created a series of 81 life sized portraits which re imagine the soldiers from the battle of Waterloo, 1815. A painstaking amount of detail has gone into producing these […]