Vernissage: Thursday, June 26th, 6-8PM

Duration: June 26th, 2025 — July 27th, 2025

Celebrate our new exhibition with us at the opening reception on Thursday, June 26th, at Leica Gallery NY.

Leica Gallery New York is thrilled to present LAST NIGHT, a solo exhibition of work by acclaimed photographer Landon Nordeman, on view from June 26 through July 27, 2025. Shot over a decade, LAST NIGHT offers an instinctive, flash-lit look at the rituals of contemporary social performance, from inside the rarefied swirl of exclusive parties. With a visual language that embraces bold colors, theatrical framing, and surreal timing, Nordeman captures the strangeness, humor, and spectacle, where socialites and superstars gather to celebrate the most beautiful things in the world...themselves.

Working up close and among his subjects, Nordeman uses his camera and flash to make unexpected photographs of subjects well-practiced in performance. The result can be both abstracting and humanizing. Drawn to the alluring interplay of fashion and flesh, shadow and color, Nordeman discovers honest moments hidden in a world of artifice. He’s far more interested in making photographs that raise questions rather than offer answers. As he puts it, he is, like Eggleston, “at war with the obvious.” His aim is not to flatter but to reveal—to find something surprising amid the performance.

A friend once described the look on his face while photographing a party as “ferocious glee.” Nordeman recognized the feeling instantly. “Something about the unresolved, comic, and at times bizarre tenor of human interaction at parties compels me to photograph. There are certain ingredients of a photograph that lead my eye around the room: gesture, color, or juxtaposition—but mostly, I follow my instincts. I have an idea of what I’m looking for, but I only know it when I see it. ”

Last Night is both a record and a reflection of a world on the verge. Of what, we don’t yet know. Collapse? Transcendence? Nordeman’s work asks, are we fiddling while the world burns or laughing in the face of oblivion? And is there a difference?

The exhibition will be open to the public from June 26th through July 27, 2025.

About the Artist:

Landon Nordeman (born 1974) is an American photographer based in New York City. After studying American Studies at the University of Virginia, he began his career in newspapers before studying Visual Communication at Ohio University. Over the past two decades, Nordeman has shot personal projects and assignments for Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Vogue, and The New York Times, among others. His work—covering everything from fashion week to political conventions—has taken him to over 40 countries and earned recognition from Communication Arts, American Photography, Pictures of the Year International, and the James Beard Foundation. His first monograph, Out of Fashion (Damiani, 2016), was named a photobook of the year by Time. His photographs are held in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Columbus Museum of Art. Since 2022, he has been teaching at the International Center of Photography in New York.

Time: 6:00-8:00 pm EST

Free!

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