Hidden in Plain Sight

Most of Richard Wotton’s photographs depict unpretentious, workaday structures going largely unnoticed. His new exhibition gently suggests these structures are not only worth noticing, but deserve remembering.

Wotton’s skill in orchestrating a bright, sharp light is a consistent feature of these new photographs. The plainest walls become animated by interplays of light and shadow, these brief interactions of time momentarily investing these structures with a dignity and simple beauty their builders never imagined and we rarely notice.