The exhibition marks ten years since the passing of David Bowie (10th January 2016) - not by returning to mythology or tribute, but by revisiting a moment defined by clarity, restraint, and control.

If it’s easy to forget that celebrities are ordinary people, photographer Markus Klinko has never been interested in reminding us of that.

“I love fantasy,” Markus once said. “I’m not interested in reality. I try to block it out.”

That instinct - to move away from the everyday toward something heightened - sits at the core of his work. Markus doesn’t photograph people as they are. He photographs them as they choose to be seen. Which is why artists, musicians, actors, and models trust him with images they can’t afford to get wrong.

Before photography, Markus understood that world from the inside. A classical concert harpist performing with symphony orchestras around the globe, he knew what it meant to be watched, elevated, and judged - and the pressure that comes with it. When a hand injury ended that career, he didn’t step away from performance. He changed roles.

The turning point came in 2001, through Iman.

Iman had commissioned Markus to photograph the cover of her book I AM IMAN. During an editing session at Markus’s New York studio - just days before 9/11 - David Bowie arrived unexpectedly to help select images. Partway through the session, Bowie made a simple offer: Markus should shoot the cover of his upcoming album, Heathen.