Robert Mapplethorpe
‘Enninful x Mapplethorpe’, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Australia
23 August – 19 October 2025
Dennis Speight, 1983 © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission. Courtesy of Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation and Alison Jacques.
For this exhibition, Ghanaian-born British editor, Edward Enninful OBE in cooperation with the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, presents his singular vision of the photographer’s work. In the exhibition, Enninful presents his selection of 46 prints in pairs, forging new dialogues between them and inviting visitors to see some of Mapplethorpe’s best known photographs anew. With this unprecedented curatorial approach to the photographer’s work, as Michael Ward Stout, president of the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, says: ‘Edward has made a unique contribution to Mapplethorpe’s legacy’. […]