Forget Me Not brings together the work of five photographers whose practices reflect on a world in flux. Featuring Andrew Cross, Anna Mossman, Philip Sinden, Mariano Vivanco and Denise Webber, the exhibition draws together works spanning the early 1990s to the present in a powerful conversation about memory, responsibility and the fragile social bonds that hold communities together.
Taking its name from the delicate flower that symbolises remembrance, Forget Me Not speaks to the quiet dangers of forgetting — forgetting people, histories, places and the nuanced realities that shape everyday life. Across the exhibition runs a subtle but persistent thread of displacement: geographical, emotional and cultural.
Yet the exhibition is not defined by loss alone. Woven through its images is a quiet appeal for reflection, empathy and shared humanity — articulated through careful observation rather than spectacle.
Each artist approaches photography as a deliberate act of inquiry. Nothing here feels incidental; every image emerges from research, attention and intention. Together, the works ask viewers to reconsider what they see, what they believe and what they choose to remember.
Among the highlights is Andrew Cross’s Berbera (Z-Force) (2023), a project tracing the route of a colonial railway proposed in Somaliland but never built. Referencing early twentieth-century survey maps, Cross photographs landscapes shaped by histories of imperial power and the early military use of aerial bombardment.
Anna Mossman presents large-scale Cibachrome photographs from the early 1990s. In Confession (1) (1994), participants were invited to confess privately to the camera during a long exposure illuminated only by candlelight. The resulting images hold traces of experiences that remain partially hidden — moments that resist full visibility or understanding.
In Denise Webber’s Threshold series (2013–15), photographed in Singapore, women step across the raised entrances of Taoist temples. The small gesture of crossing into a sacred space becomes a metaphor for resilience and the opening of new possibilities.
Philip Sinden, known for his editorial work for British Vogue, Wallpaper, and Harper’s Bazaar, contributes portraits from his studio series, photographing new models stripped of styling and artifice. In Webster (Shot in Bow, London) (2020), the sitter meets the viewer with a quiet confidence, the focus entirely on presence and personality.
Fashion photographer Mariano Vivanco shifts toward still life in Lonely Brain (2015). Known for photographing figures from Rihanna and Angelina Jolie to Damien Hirst, Vivanco turns here to flowers, exploring photography as a form of preservation — a way of holding fragile moments before they disappear.
Co-curator and founder of CLOSE Gallery Freeny Yianni reflects on the exhibition’s wider context
“Is the world in crisis, or have we simply stopped listening? When truth fractures, when reality wears the mask of fiction and fiction tells the clearest truths, what role does art play then? Perhaps art becomes the witness. Perhaps it becomes the evidence. Perhaps it becomes the space where our stories are still allowed to breathe.”
Curated by Freeny Yianni and Richard Scarry, Forget Me Not positions photography as both record and reflection — a quiet but insistent reminder that attention itself can be an act of resistance.
Forget Me Not, 7th March – 11th April 2026, Close Gallery
