George Booth Cole is a documentary photographer born in London(UK) in 1996 and is currently based between London/Paris(FR).
With roots in skateboarding, his practice is centered on social commentary through the production of self published zines and books. He has exhibited both in England/ France and internationally.
Contact: [email protected]
Box 14
George Booth-Cole and Max Critchlow
"Booth-Cole’s roots are in the skate zine community but, like Abel Kleinblatt (also featured here) his work often makes occasional, usually tongue-in-cheek forays into the art world. Box 14 is a collaboration with artist Max Critchlow. In May of 2021 the pair held an exhibition of wheatpasted posters in a community art space on the outskirts of Paris. Following the exhibition, the wheatpasted sheets were scraped off the walls, cut to size, and compiled into a suite of 20 unique zines. Creased and fingerprinted, held together flimsily with tape and thread, Box 14 channels the throwaway aesthetic of early skater zines while also, mischievously inviting us to treat it like an art object. Juan Orrantia’s Of Things Past (created by cutting up and reassembling two 1970s volumes on race relations in southern Africa) also uses non-archival materials, in the expectation that the work will continue to evolve and change. The deliberate ephemerality of works like these is a fresh alternative to the archival imperative that permeates so much of photographic culture. Objects age, they fall apart, they disappear."
Eugenie Shinkle
https://c4journal.com/zines-2021/
Selected Exhibitions
Solo/ 2 Person Exhibitions
2021 - BOX 14, The Garage@The Community, Paris France
2021- DOLNA, Nozbone, Paris France
2020- DOLNA/ObedBooks, Tago Mago, Paris, France
2019- EUROPE MEMORANDUM, Agent Troublant Gallery, Marseille, France
2018/19- YODO HITO, Process Supplies, London UK
2018- 18/19 Series, Rye Wax, The Run out festival, London, Uk
2017- BEAUTIFUL CITY, ACE GENERAL STORE, Kanagawa Japan
2017- BEAUTIFUL CITY, 819 Gallery, Kanazawa, Japan
Group Exhibitions
2023- Contrary To, Lot Projects, London, UK
2023- PAPER WORKS ART SHOW, Los Angeles, USA
2022- DYADE, Galerie PopUp, Paris, France
2022- GOOD PHOTO-Ace Hotel Kyoto, Kyotographie festival, Kyoto, Japan
2021- No Comply- Somerset House, London, Uk
2020- Panique 2 -Le Phare, Paris, France
2020- No Contact Sheets, Quai de Valmy, Paris France
2020- Panique 1- Le Phare, Paris, France
2018- TOUCH, The Gate Darkroom- London, UK
2016- Timeline Film Festival, Compound Collective, The Boardr- Tampa FL, USA
2016- Squashing Vibes Issue1, The Peckham Pelican- London, UK
Publications
2024- ‘L’Azote’, Self published, Edition of 50
2024- Los Angeles for BagLady, Published by BagLadySupplies, Edition of 50
2023- Paris for BagLady, Published by BagLadySupplies, Edition of 50
2021- BOX 14 with Max Critchlow, Self Published, Edition of 20
2021- ‘PAVÉ’, Self published, Edition of 130
2021- ‘Beche’, Self published, Edition of 130
2020- Uchu Nippon Enseki, Self published, Edition of 30
2020- DOLNA, Published by ObedBooks, Edition of 100
2019- EUROPE MEMORANDUM/Thomas Dettori, Self Published, Edition of 12
2019- EU Diary, Self Published, Edition of 20
2018- YODO HITO, Self Published, Edition of 200
2016- ROAD RAGE, SelfPublished, Edition of 114
2016- Bibitenno 2nd edition, Self Published, Edition of 100
2016- UK, Self Published, Edition of 100
2016- Planete Marseille, Self Published, Edition of 150
2015- Bibitenno, Self Published, Edition of 100