Phil­ip Mont­go­me­ry — Ame­ri­can Cy­cles: Do­cu­men­ta­ry pho­to­gra­phy bet­ween con­flict and ho­pe

Deich­tor­hal­len Ham­burg is curr­ent­ly pre­sen­ting “AME­RI­CAN CY­CLES”, the worl­d’s first ma­jor in­sti­tu­tio­nal so­lo ex­hi­bi­ti­on by Me­xi­can-Ame­ri­can do­cu­men­ta­ry pho­to­grapher Phil­ip Mont­go­me­ry. Known for his haun­ting, ico­nic images, Mont­go­me­ry’s pho­to­gra­phic works sum­ma­ri­se the cur­rent con­flicts and al­li­ances in Ame­ri­can so­cie­ty — from po­li­ti­cal rifts and so­cial uphe­aval to mo­ments of so­li­da­ri­ty. The ex­hi­bi­ti­on at PHOXXI shows bo­th award-win­ning pro­jects — ori­gi­nal­ly com­mis­sio­ned by re­now­ned ma­ga­zi­nes such as The New York Times Ma­ga­zi­ne and The New Yor­ker — as well as pre­vious­ly un­pu­blished ma­te­ri­al and the la­test in­de­pen­dent pho­to­graphs for the first time.

Phil­ip Mont­go­me­ry, born in 1988, works re­gu­lar­ly for lea­ding in­ter­na­tio­nal pu­bli­ca­ti­ons and was ho­no­u­red wi­th the Na­tio­nal Ma­ga­zi­ne Award in 2018 for his re­por­ta­ge on the opio­id epi­de­mic. His work de­mons­tra­tes a deep, em­pa­the­tic en­ga­ge­ment wi­th so­cial hot­spots, ra­pid mood shifts and quiet ever­y­day dra­mas. The ex­hi­bi­ti­on not on­ly of­fers a cross-sec­tion of Mont­go­me­ry’s im­pres­si­ve work, but al­so al­lows vi­si­tors to im­mer­se them­sel­ves in the mul­ti-laye­red cy­cles of the Ame­ri­can pre­sent — ho­nest, un­em­bel­lished and full of vi­su­al in­ten­si­ty.