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Earlier this year, I resurfaced my photos of kids playing in North Kensington during the summers of 1967-1969. The Greater London Council had just demolished 700 houses across North Kensington to build the longest elevated motorway in Europe, and a child in South Kensington had 10 times more public open space than a child in North Kensington. (You can read more …
Francis Whately interviewed me for the second part of his three part programme Andy Warhol’s America (2022). The series documents major events in the 20th century through the perspective of Warhol’s life and work. I’m featured in the episode “The American Nightmare.” The BBC wrote: “The second episode charts Andy Warhol’s response to the Civil Rights movement and the assassination …
The legendary Todd Haynes’ film The Velvet Underground (2021) has 47 of my photos in it. Time Out said: “If you already love the Velvet Underground, this is two hours of visual and aural bliss. If you don’t, same.” Here’s what some other publications wrote: BBC Culture: “Haynes’ film doesn’t try to explain The Velvet Underground to us, but does …
Chuck Smith’s documentary Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground (2018) includes 16 of my photos and an interview with me. As summarized on IMDb, “Life-long friend Jonas Mekas saved all her letters, creating a rich archive that film-maker Chuck Smith carefully sculpts into this fascinating portrait of a nearly forgotten artist. An avant-garde maverick, a rebel in a man’s …
I was happy to be included in the 2019 Portobello Film Festival at the Gate Cinema in a programme titled: ‘EMOTION AND ECONOMICS – THE HISTORY OF THE GATE CINEMA, NOTTING HILL GATE.’ I made a film: ‘Room 1301’, in New York about 1965 with a friend, Yvette Nachmias. It is a 17 minute short exploring New York 1960s office …
Very happy to be included in a new collectible limited edition box from ‘Wombat Art Boxes’ and also a featured interview on their excellent blog. Here’s what Wombat say: “With Wombat you receive every two months a limited edition box containing two numbered collectible prints and one artist’s portfolio. Follow the artists who make the news. Discover emerging talent or internationally renowned …
A good review on the ‘New York Extravaganza’ Velvet Underground show in Paris, featuring my photographs. “It is 50 years since The Velvet Underground & Nico album was recorded. A major new exhibition in Paris tells the story of the group which created it and of the New York scene which produced them. Parisians hold the Velvets in particular esteem …
“This Summer 49 of Ritchie’s photographs will be included in a major Velvet Underground exhibition, THE VELVET UNDERGROUND – ‘NEW YORK EXTRAVAGANZA’ at the Philharmonie de Paris, in Paris, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the group’s debut album, The Velvet Underground and Nico. In Ritchie’s sharp monochrome images we see a group in transition, shirtless and covered in ‘war paint’ …
Olivier Landemaine’s excellent and meticulously researched site about everything Velvet Underground. Go see it HERE.
Lou Reed 2nd March 1942 – 27th October 2013
All Tomorrow’s Parties: Andy Warhol, The Factory and the Velvet Underground ONO Contemporary Art Gallery Via Santa Margherita 10, Bologna, Italy: Dec 2011 – Jan 2012
