"Light Industry" brings together the work of nine artists and photographers, across generations who have worked within the theme of industry. Each of them has focused their lens on human interaction with machines or large tools, industrial areas and their architecture, building sites or labour itself and the traces of these in post-industrial landscapes from the US to Russia, to Sweden, Italy, England and Wales. Viewed collectively, "Light Industry" explores how industries, past and present,…

"Stepping Stones: Three Photographic Journeys" connects the work of three photographers: Gerry Johansson, Guido Guidi and Mark Ruwedel. Focusing on a specific journey by each artist, three distinct conceptual, and personal, approaches to capturing place unfold. Gerry Johansson realised his series Motel Prints (1983) during a coast-to-coast long trip, beginning in Los Angeles in May 1983 and ending in New York, via Utah, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Arkansas to Me…

Mark Ruwedel's third solo exhibition with the gallery develops on from his on-going project Los Angeles: Landscapes of Four Ecologies. For over three decades, Ruwedel has photographed American deserts and wild spaces that bear traces of human intervention. In Ruwedel's Los Angeles series, he has identified and photographed four overlapping landscape 'systems': The Rivers, The Eastern Edge (transitioning from the basin to the desert), The Hills an…

Mark Ruwedel’s new exhibition at Large Glass is a selection of photographs taken from his in-progress epic Los Angeles: Landscapes of Four Ecologies, a work funded by a Guggenheim Fellowship awarded in 2014. At a time when predictions of climate catastrophe are becoming ever more frequent, these gelatin silver prints, hand printed and mounted by the artist, feel especially timely as evidence of this moment of escalating consequences, and are imbued with - in Ruwedel’s words - a &qu…

Large Glass is delighted to present the work of American photographer Mark Ruwedel and Italian photographer Cesare Fabbri. Mark Ruwedel will show a series photographs, which document the Los Angeles River. For over two decades, he has been photographing American deserts or the remains of abandoned railway lines in the western United States and Canada - epic places with evidence of human intervention. "His photographs of the channelized LA River, and of similar stretches of Califo…