What is The Face Magazine ?

The face magazine celebrates iconic fashion images and portraits from The Face, which is a youth culture and style magazine that has shaped the creative and cultural landscape in Britain. The magazine also launched the careers of many leading photographers and fashion stylists, who were given the creative freedom to radically reimagine the visual language of fashion photography. The exhibition brings together the work of over 80 photographers, including Sheila Rock, Stephane Sednaoui, Corrine Day and many others. From 1980 to 2004, The Face played a vital role in creating contemporary culture. Musicians features on its covers achieved global success and the models it championed, including Kate Moss who became the most recognisable face of the time. The Face magazine relaunched in 2019, and the magazine continues to provide a disruptive and creative space for image makers, championing fresh talent in photography, fashion, music and graphic design.

The Face exhibition shows over 80 photographers work that is unique and different and shows how the styles of all there photography differs from each other.

What inspired the Face Magazine ?

The Face a British music, Fashion and culture monthly magazine originally published from 1980 to 2004 and then relaunched again in 2019. The magazine was first launched in May in London by Nick Logan who was a British Journalist and had been editor of New Musical Express and Smash Hits. He is best known for having founded the Face magazine which forged a new “lifestyle” sector in British publishing in the 1980’s and 1990’s.