Mike
Rutherford

A former advertising and commercial photographer, Mike put the camera down in the early 2000s, taking it up again in India two years ago. How work now, uses digital manipulation to turn photographs into moody, dark, painterly images that portray both the artist’s interpretations while allowing the viewer to project their own imaginings into the depiction.

Since 2020 Mike has won a Gold Medal at the San Francisco International Art Festival, Second Prize in the New York Center for Photographic Art Black and White Awards and exhibited in group shows in Texas, Greece and at the Los Angeles Center for Photography as well as having a solo show, Vital Signs (an interpretive exposition of the seen). He is also a finalist in the 2021 National Portrait Gallery Photographic Prize and was a finalist in the 2020 and 2022  Percival Photographic Portrait Prize. He also exhibited in the Ballarat International Foto Biennale last year.