From 15 February 2025, the CAMERA WORK gallery will be presenting the exhibition I'm Not Here with around 40 photographs by Steve Schapiro, a selection of which will be shown for the first time worldwide.
Image gallery
Schapiro - Barbra
Schapiro - Andy and Velvet Underground
Schapiro - The Whisper
Schapiro - The Worst Is Yet to Come
Schapiro - MLK with Flag
Schapiro - Gene Wilder Laughing
Highlights include two portraits of Muhammad Ali - unique pieces signed by both the boxing icon and Steve Schapiro - as well as other rare vintage prints.
It is the largest presentation of works by a gallery since the artist's death in 2022.
The theme of ‘freedom’, to which Steve Schapiro felt a deep connection throughout his life, is the leitmotif of the exhibition. Against this backdrop, I'm Not Here is dedicated to Steve Schapiro's impressive life - from his work as a photojournalist to his iconic film set photographs, which document unforgettable moments in film history on famous film sets such as The Godfather, Taxi Driver, Apocalypse Now and Rocky. His portraits of important pop culture personalities such as Andy Warhol, David Bowie, Muhammad Ali and Barbra Streisand, as well as protagonists of the civil rights movement, reflect Schapiro's examination of self-determination and justice in society.
For example, Steve Schapiro photographed the Selma marches in 1965, Robert F. Kennedy's presidential election campaign in 1968 and, most recently, the Black Lives Matter movement founded in 2013.
Steve Schaprio Steve Schapiro's (1934-2022) career as a photojournalist began in 1961. During the ‘Golden Age of Photojournalism’, he covered the Selma marches of the civil rights movement and the presidential election campaign of Robert F. Kennedy, among others. Steve Schapiro was also one of the first photographers on the scene where Martin Luther King was shot. Numerous portraits by Steve Schapiro (including Andy Warhol, David Bowie, Muhammad Ali, Samuel Beckett, Truman Capote, Barbra Streisand and Jacqueline Kennedy) are now world-famous and important visual testimonies to contemporary history.
In addition to his work as a photojournalist, Steve Schapiro has worked as a photographer on the sets of more than 600 films. Steve Schapiro's photographs have been published in numerous renowned magazines and exhibited in museums and galleries since the 1960s. Today, his works can be found in internationally renowned private and public art collections (including the Smithsonian Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Getty Museum) as well as in corporate collections.
The exhibition Steve Schapiro: I'm Not Here takes place parallel to the European Month of Photography.
CAMERA WORK: the Berlin-based gallery CAMERA WORK was founded in 1997 and is now one of the world's leading galleries for photographic art.
