KIM THUE: LODE RECONSTRUCTION and a gaze full of

and a gaze full of quiet dignity

“They need to understand that I am not watching my sitters—it’s as if I’m part of the picture… A picture should not be beautiful

memories frozen in a time and place that felt very distant from the new reality that must be reckoned with

“Scarcely any other twentieth-century monument is more spectacular and more photogenic

KIM THUE: LODE RECONSTRUCTION and a gaze full ofABOUT: During the 2020 pandemic imposed lockdown and subsequent loss of his job bordering a paralysed music industry, Kim Thue grabbed the rarely presented opportunity away from everyday distractions to re engage with his otherwise neglected photography. Drawers full of previously unseen negatives and contact sheets generated from extensive travels from his home in London to far flung corners of China, Iceland, Spain and Sierra Leone had become an