‘Still Time’: An ongoing body of work
Photographer Joe Smith’s 50-year retrospective opens at Valletta Contemporary
What’s in a name? For a photographer named Joe Smith, an everyman if ever there was one, the answer seems almost preordained. His work gravitates towards the quotidian, elevating the ordinary with a quiet, deliberate attention. It feels less like coincidence than a kind of inevitability.
In his exhibition Still Time, curated by Lisa Gwen Chetcuti, this sensibility is given structure. It is divided into four sections, including ‘The Ordinary and the Mundane’, ‘Form and Matter’, ‘People and Faces’ and ‘Spaces and Places’. Titles that might be considered elementary, were it not for the way they echo the democratic gaze at the heart of Smith’s practice, where the unremarkable becomes, under scrutiny, something enduring.
Read more about the exhibition on Times2.