About
The Monochroma Gallery is a photography gallery without walls.
The gallery was founded to unite a curated selection of established and mid-career artists and promote their black and white photographic work in national and international exhibitions and fairs.
The Monochroma Gallery prides itself on not taking any commission from any sales that might come from exposure on the gallery's website, but kindly asks any buyers to address their requests or questions directly to The Monochroma Gallery through the CONTACT button, so that we can appraise the value of the gallery's input on our artists' sales.
All photographic prints are either darkroom printed silver-gelatine fibre prints or printed on archival paper.
All prints are sold either framed or unframed, and signed ( and numbered if part of ltd edition prints).
Collectors will be issued with a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.
We are actively looking to select more photographers keen to show their work under the umbrella of The Monochroma Gallery for its first exhibitions in 2025 and applicants should note that the gallery favours analog photographers and darkroom printed work but digital photography is not excluded.
If you wish to apply for consideration please CONTACT us with your website address, a short bio and instagram handles through the CONTACT button in the main menu.
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The Monochroma Gallery
Artists
Marella Oppenheim
Koo Stark Lucy Sewill
Sissel Annett
Marella Oppenheim
Marella Oppenheim is a Franco-British analog photographer represented
non exclusively by Anne Clergue Galerie, in Arles, France.
She works mainly with analog cameras, prints in her darkroom in the UK and is the founder of The Red Light Collective, bringing together South West analog photographers who print in darkrooms across the county.
Since receiving her MA (hons) in Documentary Photography from LCC in London, in 2019, Marella has been awarded the Photofusion Photographer’s Gallery Award given by Brett Rogers OBE; has been published in The Guardian, as a writer and photographer, and featured in specialised photographic magazines
She was a finalist for LUMA Dummy Book Award, KASSEL Dummy Book Award, for her long term photographic documentary on the German sect Colonia Dignidad in Chile, Under Dark Roots / Colonia Dignidad, in 2020; and twice finalist for the Freelens Award 2020 and 2021, for her photographic video montages ‘Voices from Little Haiti’, and ‘1 in 8 Men.
Marella's portraits of her friend and mentor, the late U.S photographer and diarist Peter Beard, were exhibited during the Rencontres de la Photographie, in Arles, France in 2021, and one graces the cover of his biography Wild, by Graham Boynton, published by St Martins’ Press US in 2022.
Her recent work on the effects of the Anthropocenic era on nature and wildlife, is expressed through evocative collages and multimedia work.
Marella lives in constant motion, a camera in hand, documenting world cultures and tribes, wild life and the wider world in which we live.
A portion of revenue from the sale of certain prints goes to the tribal people who welcome her in their midst with kindness and generosity and for which she is forever grateful.
Marella Oppenheim's photographs are held in private collections in the US, UK, EU and Switzerland.
Website link: www.marellaoppenheim.co.uk
Instagram: marella_oppenheim
https://vimeo.com/marellaoppenheim
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Koo Stark
Koo Stark was born in New York City in 1956.
In 1982 , the renowned photographer Norman Parkinson took it upon himself
to mentor Koo's work. He trained her eye and she remained his protégé from
1982 until he passed away in 1990.
Koo Stark has been widely exhibited in the U.K,most notably with solo exhibitions in
1983/85/89/93 at the Hamiltons Gallery, London; The Royal Festival Hall 1990; and more recently at The Leica Gallery in London and Manchester.
In Europe, she had a solo exhibition in Barcelona at The Malcolm Duke Gallery.
In 1994, her reportage book ‘Stark Contrast’, was published.
Her portraits feature in the National Portrait Gallery, V&A , Banbury museum and the museum of Chicago as is in private collections worldwide. She also contributes to group shows at Chelsea Arts Club group and Julia Margaret Cameron Trust and regularly donates photographs to charities requesting her support, most recently to:
Hearts of Gold, Blue Cross, Children with Special Needs, Parent Network, Great Ormond Children's Hospital, Julia Margaret Cameron Trust and Elton John AIDS Foundation.
Auctions and Promotions
1990 - 1996: Koo's work was included in Christie's 20th Century Photographers Auctions.
Her photographs have been included in auctions in UK, USA, Sotheby's, Christie's and for various charities.
Numerous personal and television appearances promoting photography in general as well as her own work.
Koo is now working on a new body of work titled Kintsugi, and lives in London with her daughter.
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Sissel Annett
Sissel Annett is a Norwegian photographer whose practice is underpinned by a form of personal storytelling which seeks to break through the superficiality of the modern world.
Sissel’s work reveals profound and singular artistic expression particularly present in her latest work 'Emotional Alchemy', an exploration of the alchemical process of transforming emotion.
In this series Sissel seeks to portray the metamorphosis that takes place when individuals confront and transform their pain, fear and struggle into healing and love while acknowledging the darkness that sometimes emerges from the human psyche.
All her work is made in the darkroom, and the subsequent print scanned and printed on archival paper in a ltd ed of 7.
This series was most recently exhibited at Head On Photo Festival, Sydney, Australia and at Gallery Ogrodowa8, in Poland .
Email: sisselannett@gmail.com
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Lucy Sewill
Lucy Sewill is a photographer with a diverse creative career.
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