About

Renowned Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf started his career as a photojournalist documenting the nightlife of the 1980s. Today, Olaf exhibits internationally with 40 year's worth of work that often centres around society's marginalised individuals. In 2018 he completed a three part series of monumental photographic and filmic tableaux portraying periods of seismic change in three cities (Berlin, Shanghai and most recently, Palm Springs) and the citizens caught up in them. Like much of Olaf's work, it is contextualised by complex race relations, the complications of sexuality, and …