🇬🇧 Wanderlusting / JOHN BYFORD ~ 1st ~ 31st May 2026
Showing SPACE. Silver Street, Lincoln.
Showing SPACE. Silver Street, Lincoln.
Wanderlusting - because life is a journey!
Wanderlusting
After many exhibitions and collaborations across Europe, Wanderlusting brings this work together as a lasting photographic project. It is a collection shaped by travel, curiosity, and time spent looking closely at the world.
John Byford’s photographs are rarely staged. They are made in the moment, guided by observation rather than planning. His images capture everyday life as it is — honest and unpolished — seen through a very personal point of view. He is drawn to the unusual, the small details that are often missed, and the quiet beauty found in ordinary places.
This exhibition at Showing Space invites us to see the world through his eyes. The photographs are sometimes surprising, never idealised, and always personal. They encourage us to slow down, look again, and simply enjoy what is in front of us.
> Showing Space, LINCOLN 1st ~ 31st May 2026
> The last remaining 'signed' copies of Wanderlusting will be available to purchase at the exhibition - 35.00 only. ISBN 9783982547008
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Exhibition REVIEW by Thomas Fischer [ Germany ]
It was warm again this Monday morning at the state garden show in Bad Gandersheim. Brexit or not, the "Pavilion" platform was entirely in British hands today. The national flag on the outside wall of the building unmistakably identified the pavilion as an English island in the realm of the State Horticultural Show.
This included a well-known personality from Bad Gandersheim's English twin town of Skegness - the artist and photographer John Byford.
John happily presents his latest work of art to me. A thick book with a series of his most beautiful, original and cheeky photographs all made on different trips. The title of this photo book is funny: "Wanderlusting", Byford's new neologism. A linguistic symbolism.
Byford's photographs tell many stories. And they're not just aesthetically beautiful. His point of view comes across as authentic. That means bitterly serious, cool and funny. "I don't look at it...", Elke Pilz commented on my question as to whether she could interpret all the photographs with her Christian self-image. Nina answered the same question simply and confidently: "I'll have to explain some of the pictures to my child...".
That's exactly how it is. Byford's picture book stimulates discourse on art and more!
