Pink Floyd collaborator Polly Samson, wife and creative partner of David Gilmour, has a London photo exhibition featuring images of the creation, recording and live performance of Gilmour's Luck and Strange album.
Novelist Samson was the chief lyricist on Pink Floyd albums The Division Bell (1994) and The Endless River (2014) as well as on Gilmour’s On an Island, Rattle That Lock and 2024's Luck and Strange. During the creation of Gilmour's fifth and most recent solo album, Samson took photographs showing the progression of the creation of the album from conception to recording and from release to live performance, which were published last year in the book David Gilmour - Luck and Strange - Studio/Live. A selection of these images will feature in Samson's new exhibition, Polly Samson - Between This Breath and Then, hosted at the Leica Gallery London.
A synopsis for the show reads: "Firmly rooted in the literary world with five highly acclaimed and widely-translated works of fiction published to date, Samson has been documenting concert tours, on film and digital, for over twenty years. Her sixth book, Luck and Strange Studio/Live is a full throttle photographic ‘trip’ providing fertile and vivid ground for her inaugural show with Leica. The work offers an intimate perspective not only on the recordings and performance of an album but also on the creative process formed between two longstanding artistic partners – herself and the book’s key subject David Gilmour.
