Frida Kahlo: Her PhotosWhen Frida Kahlo died, her husband Diego Rivera asked the poet Carlos Pellicer to turn the Blue House into a museum that the people of Mexico could visit to admire the work of the artist. Pellicer selected those of Fridas paintings which were in the house, along with drawings, photographs, books, and ceramics, maintaining the spaces just as Frida and Diego had arranged them to live and work in. The rest of the objects, clothing, documents, drawings,

Studying with Lisette Model in the early 1970s

was quite singular both as an artist and as a family member and had continued photography within the limited living space he shared with Ushioda

only occasionally travelling further afield to the beaches of Rimini on the Adriatic or the Swiss Lakes

Since 1991 Ormerod’s archives have been held at the Millennium Picture Library in London

Using a large format camera and careful analogue techniques

but in fact artists

she created a zine with her friends entitled Joshikosei Tsuushin (High School Girl Times)

minimalism

immersing us in the urban chaos of this complicated time

but these images are timeless - they beg contemplation and immersion from the viewer

”' — John Muir

Shared offerings to the past manifest in codes hidden in plain sight