Louis Porter
Londres, 1977
Louis Porter is a London based artist, photographer, researcher and educator in photographic processes. His work focusses on the circulation and recirculation of images, texts, ideas and the technologies of reproduction that enable this. Publishing and printed matter are an important part of his practice, via his own imprint Twenty Shelves, independent publishers and as a member of The Artists’ Books Cooperative.
He has worked as a museum photographer for nearly twenty years and currently runs the photography studios at the Postal Museum in London. He has exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria, the Centre for Contemporary Photography, the Noorderlicht Festival, SiFest, and the Brighton Photo Biennial, among others.
His books and multiples are held in numerous artists’ books collections including those of Tate Modern, MoMa, the New York Centre for Book Arts, The Victoria and Albert Museum and the Reina Sofia Museum. He has undertaken residencies at the Zentrum Für Kunst und Urbanistik (Germany), Awagami paper Factory (Japan), Australian Archaeological Institute of Athens (Greece) and The Red Gate Gallery (China).
