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London & Europe–based photographer specialising in documenting art, exhibitions, collectible design, architectural and luxury brand projects.

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Sad news today of the passing of Yayoi Kusama, aged 97.

I photographed this extraordinary work as part of the Veuve Clicquot La Grande Dame x Yayoi Kusama presentation at Solaire Culture in London.

An artist whose unmistakable visual language — dots, repetition, colour and infinity — became part of our collective imagination.

What an extraordinary life, and what an extraordinary legacy.

Yayoi Kusama, 1929–2026. 🟡🔴🟢

#yayoikusama #kusama #contemporaryart #veuveclicquot by @lelenthal

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a month ago

Near to the Wild Heart
27.06—01.08.26

A detail from Near to the Wild Heart at @approachgallery

Pictured is a sculpture by @borbaa Anderson Borba, whose work has long been one of my favourites. Drawing on Afro-Brazilian traditions and transforming wood through burning, carving and painting, Borba creates powerful, tactile forms that exist between abstraction and figuration.

It was a pleasure to document his works for this exhibition.

Photography: @lelenthal

#theapproach taken in The Approach by @lelenthal

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3 months ago

One of my favourite assignments in recent months.

Photographing Fathi Hassan’s exhibition at the Paul Mellon Centre was a rare opportunity to work with complete creative freedom, allowing me to explore not only the artworks themselves but also their relationship with the building and its remarkable spaces.

Designed by Thomas Leverton and completed in the late 18th century, the Paul Mellon Centre is a wonderful example of how historic architecture can coexist with contemporary design. It’s something Britain does exceptionally well—preserving heritage while allowing it to evolve.

The exhibition presents works created by Fathi Hassan during his 2024 residency with The Sunderland Collection. Inspired by its extraordinary collection of rare atlases, celestial maps and globes, the resulting mixed-media works explore history, memory, displacement, cartography and colonialism through richly layered compositions.

A thoughtful collaboration between the Paul Mellon Centre, The Sunderland Collection and Fathi Hassan, and an absolute pleasure to document.

@paulmelloncentr @fathihassanartist @sunderlandcollection #fathihassan taken in Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by @lelenthal

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4 months ago

Exploring memory, displacement, and cultural transmission through textile and sculptural forms, Desire Moheb-Zandi’s work exists at the intersection of craft, abstraction, and material culture.

‘East of Somewhere Else’ at Carl Kostyál, London.

Documentation by @lelenthal

@desiremohebzandi @carl.kostyal taken in Carl Kostyál by @lelenthal

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4 months ago

Documenting Eileen Agar at Alison Jacques — a joy to photograph an exhibition full of texture, rhythm, colour and surreal energy.

Agar was a key figure in British Surrealism, transforming everyday forms from nature — shells, rocks, birds, flowers, hands and faces — into dreamlike compositions between abstraction and imagination. This exhibition brings together paintings and collages from 1957–1985, showing how her visual language kept evolving well into her eighties.

On view at @alisonjacquesgallery, 5 June – 25 July.

Image @lelenthal
Work © Estate of Eileen Agar

#eileenagar #alisonjacquesgallery #artdocumentation taken in Alison Jacques by @lelenthal

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4 months ago

Now open at Approach Gallery: ‘Baby Blue Benzo’ by Sara Cwynar.

A monumental panoramic video installation, shot on digital and 16mm film, unfolds as a continuous horizontal scroll. Beginning with the Mercedes-Benz 300SLR, the work expands into a reflection on value, desire, and the role of images in capitalism.

Accompanied by photographs in the annex, set against wallpaper designed by the artist.

On view until 7 June.

Exhibition documentation @lelenthal

@cwynars @approachgallery #saracwynar taken in The Approach Gallery by @lelenthal

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5 months ago

I have documented Ian Kiaer’s work at his Oxford artist studio last week. This installation is being included in RETHINKING ROMANTICISM, at CAMeC @camec.laspezia – Centro d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, La Spezia, Italy, on view 11 April – 13 September 2026.

The exhibition reflects on the spiritual and visual legacy of Friedrich, Constable and Turner, and the ways their presence continues to resonate in contemporary practice.

Photography @lelenthal
#iankiaer #camec #studiovisit #artdocumentation taken in Oxford by @lelenthal

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7 months ago

I accidentally inverted the colours of this photo and ended up loving the result.

Sculpture by @takurokuwata photographed in Regent’s Park, London by @lelenthal

Now on view at @warwickarts until tomorrow 15 March 2026!

Sometimes mistakes create their own strange beauty…

#takurokuwata #warwickartscentre #artphotography #lelenthal #alisonjacquesgallery taken in Regent's Park by @lelenthal

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7 months ago

Spent time documenting this beautiful exhibition @vardaxoglou gallery today and felt so struck by how thoughtfully it has been put together. There’s such a quiet balance to the installation. Can’t wait to share more images with you soon.

Photography @lelenthal

#Aegean #artdocumentation #vardaxoglou #barbarahepworth taken in Vardaxoglou Gallery by @lelenthal

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7 months ago

An engaging and brief intervention in a former whisky shop in Shoreditch, ‘Bitter Spring’ activates the site with freshness and precision.

All images @lelenthal

Bitter Spring
5-12 March
Open daily 2-8pm
17B Kingsland Road, E2 8AA London

@mara_projects by @lelenthal

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7 months ago

📷 exhibition views by @lelenthal

Gordon Parks once said the camera was his “weapon of choice” — and you feel that force in every room of this extraordinary show at @alisonjacquesgallery

Curated by Bryan Stevenson of @eji_org and @legacysites , ‘Gordon Parks: We Shall Not Be Moved’ brings together era-defining images that move between injustice and resistance, violence and dignity: segregated Alabama, American Gothic, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., the March on Washington. Parks didn’t just witness history — he gave it form, intimacy and moral clarity.

A timely, devastating and deeply elegant exhibition.
Beautifully framed in The Guardian by Oliver Laughland.

All installations views @lelenthal
#alisonjacquesgallery #gordonparks #bryanstevenson @gordonparksfoundation taken in Alison Jacques by @lelenthal

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7 months ago

Prem Sahib — ‘Liquid Gold’
Installation at The Perimeter
The Blue Lion, London
27 Feb – 1 Apr 2026

Documentation by @lelenthal

Light spills from the pub interior like a liquid form, turning the building into a glowing vessel and inviting viewers to look in from the street.

Commissioned and presented by The Perimeter.

#premsahib #perimeter #liquidgold taken in The Perimeter by @lelenthal

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