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Surf Comber Motel, New Jersey 2025. 100 x 125cm Archival Pigment Print, ed of 5 - Thanks to old/new/internet friends for coming out last night. I’m really proud of the show and the work - including that of @blueswiftframers . Also grateful to @rawlinsonmark for the exhibition text and of course the lovely team @lbfcontemporary for making it happen. Whilst there are a range of locations, in many ways it’s all one project and interesting to see people unable to differentiate between Margate and the USA - the stories of these spaces are often so similar. I think I’ll be doing a talk during Photo London so will update here in case anyone’s interested. The show runs until 28th May, so please check it out if you can 💜. - Everything Beautiful is Far Away 1-28th May LBF Contemporary 13 Tottenham Mews London W1T 4AQ

Benidorm, published by @hoxtonminipress 2025. Now available to pre-order, shipping on 27th Feb. 🌊🌴🦩☀️

Silent Coast in the FT Weekend Magazine. Thank you @emmalbo @joshklustig @ft_weekend 🛝 🙏

Rob Ball Sunbeds, Benidorm, 2023 Archival pigment print 100 x 125 cm 39.3 x 49.2 in Edition of 5 plus 2 APs In the spirit of Photo London, join us on Saturday 16 May at 1pm for an artist walkthrough with Rob Ball (@rob.ball ) to learn more about his solo show, ‘Everything Beautiful is Far Away.’ Reserve your place via the link in our bio 🏖️

Cityscape, Benidorm, 2024. 100 x 125cm Archival Pigment Print. If you are in London this week for @photolondonfair and @peckham24photo please consider heading over to @lbfcontemporary to see Everything Beautiful is Far Away. The prints are richly detailed and reward slow looking. I’m giving a walk through talk on Saturday at 1pm, link in bio 🙏.

16 years ago I was invited for a tour around (the then closed) Dreamland by The Dreamland Trust. It was a bit sad, but we knew good things were happening in Margate. Turner Contemporary opened a year later and Dreamland 4 years after that. I wasn’t really thinking of making a project at that time but the access seemed like a gift. Since then my work at the coast has become my practice, rather than a series of projects. I’m giving a free talk/gallery tour about my work next week - link in bio.

We’re delighted to host an Artist Talk & Exhibition Walkthrough with photographer Rob Ball (@rob.ball ) next Saturday, 16 May, in the spirit of Photo London week. Join us to hear more about Ball’s practice and the works featured in his current solo exhibition, ‘Everything Beautiful is Far Away.’ Reserve your place via the link in our bio 🌴 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸 & 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗸𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗥𝗼𝗯 𝗕𝗮𝗹𝗹 Saturday, 16 May, 1 PM LBF Contemporary 13 Tottenham Mews, W1T 4AQ RSVP essential

New Jersey, 2025.

Currently on view in ‘Everything Beautiful is Far Away,’ running through 28th May. Rob Ball Palm Tree, Benidorm, 2023 Archival pigment print 125 x 100 cm 49.2 x 39.3 in Edition of 5 plus 2 APs To learn more about the exhibition join us on Saturday 16th May at LBF Contemporary for a public talk with Rob Ball at 1pm. Follow the link in our bio to reserve your spot 🌴

OPENING TONIGHT: Rob Ball ‘Everything Beautiful is Far Away’ ⛱️ Featuring fourteen photographs, the exhibition brings together works made over a ten-year period, drawn from a broader fifteen-year engagement with the Coast. Private View: Thursday 30 April, 6 - 8pm Running until 28 May 2026 LBF Contemporary 13 Tottenham Mews W1T 4AQ — 📸 Tom Carter (@tomcarterldn ), 2026 — For enquiries, [email protected]

Opening this week: Rob Ball, ‘Everything Beautiful is Far Away’ PV: Thursday 30 April, 6 - 8 pm On View: 1 - 28 May, 2026 LBF Contemporary 13 Tottenham Mews W1T 4AQ — ‘For Ball, this investigation feels deeply personal. Having holidayed on the Costas as a child in the 1980s and now living on the Kent coast, he returns to these coastal resorts as a working-class observer: at once connected by history yet critically distant as a photographic visitor. These photographs are not sneering; they avoid stereotyping or taking cheap shots at those enjoying mass-market recreation: the package holiday, the all-inclusive deal. Ball’s meditative approach to image-making, influenced by the New Topographics landscape photographers of the 1970s, stands in stark contrast to many documentary photography projects. One can detect in these photographs the sharp, analytical eye of Lewis Baltz or the Bechers, combined with the more empathetic gaze of Robert Adams. The result is a series of works built on affection and respect, but without nostalgia or naivety.’ - excerpt from exhibition essay by Dr Mark Rawlinson. Read the full text in the link in our bio 🔗 — Rob Ball Dreamland, Margate, 2023 Archival pigment print Edition of 6 + 2 APs 100 x 125 cm 39.3 x 49.2 in — Enquiries - [email protected]

@rob.ball will be having an exhibition 'Everything Beautiful is Far Away' at @lbfcontemporary congratulation! He is a #millennium_images contributor