ALAN CHAPMAN: UNFILTERED — NIGHTS THAT NEVER ASKED PERMISSION

Before celebrity learned to behave, there were nights that blurred into morning and faces caught between performance and disappearance. Alan Chapman: Unfiltered, presented at Cramer St Gallery and curated by Lee Sharrock, drifts through that lost atmosphere — a time when images felt accidental, instinctive, and a little dangerous.

Shot across three decades between London and Los Angeles, Chapman’s black-and-white photographs move quietly behind the velvet rope. Amy Winehouse, Kate Moss, Mick Jagger, Madonna, Jack Nicholson, Lady Gaga and others appear not as icons, but as fleeting presences — tired, electric, amused, distant. The grain of the film holds the silence between flashes, the moments when nothing is being managed.

There is no nostalgia here, only fragments: late-night conversations, half-lit glances, bodies leaning against the edges of fame. In an era of perfect feeds and rehearsed spontaneity, these images feel almost rebellious — imperfect, intimate, and deeply human.

Alongside the exhibition, Chapman presents FRAME, a book tracing thirty years of encounters with the cultural underground and the mythology of nightlife.

Alan Chapman: Unfiltered
Cramer St Gallery, London
4–8 March 2026