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Nelli Palomäki : Sons of Nakhimov

10 Nov-21 Dec 2012

The Wapping Project - Bankside
London SE1 9LR

Overview

New works by Finnish artist Nelli Palomäki. 'Sons of Nakhimov' is a series of large scale, black & white portraits of young pupils from the Nakhimov Naval Academy, a Russian military school in St Petersburg. In this body of work, which addresses the tradition of classic, black and white photographic portraiture, Finnish artist Nelli Palomäki depicts a group of teenage boys, whose appearance and demeanour hardly belong to this century. The timeless atmosphere of the boarding school, its rigorous discipline, the comradeship between pupils and the loneliness of some are captured in this quietly eloquent series, which raises questions about identity and coming of age.