Idil Sukan: This Comedian, Embassy Tea Gallery

The biggest names in comedy captured in a new photography exhibition from emerging talent Idil Sukan

Idil Sukan: This Comedian, Embassy Tea Gallery
Comedian and photographer Idil Sukan reveals the inner workings of the comedy industry with 200 photographs of live performances and portraits of some of the biggest names around.

Who is Idil Sukan?

While she only bought her first professional camera five years ago, Idil Sukan is well known as an emerging photographic talent. She’s worked as official photographer for the British Independent Film Awards and you might have seen her enormous billboards and posters plastered across Edinburgh during the Edinburgh Festival. You’ll also recogniseIdil Sukan photography for the famous photographs ofThe Muppets. And with her portrait of actress Celia Imrie recently acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, London, Sukan’s reputation is only growing.

Photography exhibition, Embassy Tea Gallery

This retrospective of the last decade of Sukan’s work has some astonishing images of celebrities ranging from Miss Piggy, Olivia Coleman and Michael Gambon to transvestite Eddie Izzard. Sukan also ventures into a discussion of visual marketing and the idea of the comedian’s onstage persona.

So if you are looking for photography exhibitions London with a twist, pay a visit to the Embassy Tea Gallery and explore the showbiz of comedy.

20 Feb 2015 – 02 Mar 2015, 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM
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