Dennis Schoenberg

Dennis Schoenberg's photography operates within the tension between authenticity and artifice. His work meditates on how meaning is manufactured, circulated and displaced within the spectacle of popular culture.

His portraits and scenes, steeped in subcultural iconography, revisit the visual codes of underground cultures not as mere documentation but as a decaying cultural archive which is absorbed, aestheticised and neutralised by capitalism's endless appetite for the new.

Schoenberg responds not with rejection but with amplification. His photographs romanticise what was once raw, smooth what was once confrontational and turn marginality into allure. In doing so, he reveals how subversive forms are laundered by aesthetic desire. The lighting, composition and seductive surface of his images conspire to beautify rebellion, rendering it consumable. This act is not naïve but deliberate, almost performative.

The artist's gesture is both affectionate and ironic: a form of homage that knowingly participates in the very act of sanitisation it seeks to expose. His photographs inhabit the uneasy space between critique and complicity, sentiment and surface. They suggest that in a culture where every image, attitude and identity can be rep...

After earning a Master of Arts Degree in Photography in London, Schoenberg honed his craft under renowned photographers, assisting Steven Klein in New York City and managing Wolfgang Tillmans’ studio in London, U.K.

• MA Photography - Westmister University, London, England
• BA Communications and Audio/Visual Production Studies - London Metropolitan University, England

• 'Prurient Sanctity' Project was
shortlisted for the Nobuyoshi
Araki MA-g Awards and acquired
by the Museum of Avant-garde,
Mendrisio, Switzerland, for its
permanent collection.
• ‘Prurient Sanctity’ - Solo exhibition.
Peter Domenie, 10178 Berlin
• 'Young Soul Rebels' - Solo exhibition.
Topics, 12045 Berlin
• 'Young Soul Rebels' - Solo exhibition.
Tender, London WC2N 4HE
• ‘Don’t stop now: Fashion Photography Next’ - Group exhibition. Fashion Space Gallery, London W1G 0BJ
• ‘Hors-Champ’ - Group exhibition.
Joseph Soho, New York, N.Y. 10012
• 'Dust' - Group exhibition.
Babylon Gallery, 75018 Paris
• ‘Komakino’ - Group exhibition.
Envoy Enterprises Gallery, New York, NY 10002