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Toby Glanville
Toby Glanville cites several encounters with great works of art as his "Eureka" moments, some classical—Donatello’s “David,” the frescoes by Masaccio and Lippi he saw on a trip to Florence when he was 13—others, such as Fellini’s Casanova, simply classic. The London-bred, self-taught photographer, whose work is in the collections of London’s National Portrait Gallery and The Victoria & Albert Museum, has imbued this appreciation for the Western canon into his work as a master portraitist. When he’s not shooting stars such as John Hurt and Sam Riley for glossies, Glanville frequently trains his lens on artisans going about their daily routines; his 1992 portrait of a young laborer, “Plasterer’s Mate,” was included in the show Bruce Bernard: 100 Photographs at the V&A, and his lovely shots of the daily ebb and flow at Paris’s Rose Bakery accompanied the cafe’s cookbook, Breakfast, Lunch, Tea. “I fell into photographing people in their work environments, but since nothing happens by accident, I would admit to being attracted to the dignity and grace bestowed by work if it isn’t exploitative or humiliating,” he says. Glanville is currently working on a series of posters with Frith Kerr.
Self-portrait, 2007
