Lynsie Roberts is a photographer based in London and Toronto. She is available for commercial and editorial commissions.

Vacuous Wealth is a hollow portrait of contemporary luxury in London. Shot on location at night around the city, it presents a dark snapshot of post-COVID late-capitalism, a morbid photojournalism of decadence in its demise. When we emerged from quarantine, the visual landscape felt eerie and desolate, luxury irrelevant in a pandemic and recession. These photographs document the city as we renegotiate our cultural values in a place that emphasises wealth, power, status, and prestige above all else. They consider the spectacle of wealth and question its relevance in the new world we find ourselves in. 

Christmas at Harrods showcases one of my favourite traditions: the Harrods Food Hall annual holiday feast. The foods on display are distinguished by their ceremony: it is a theatre of ostentation, a performance of provisions, a showcase of edible luxury where each stage is more tempting than the last. Deadpan photographs document the annual offerings with a democratic disposition; high gloss close-ups exaggerate desire with heightened hyper-realism. The photographs glorify and celebrate the excesses of contemporary consumption. The images are grotesque, and yet you can't look away - that is the power of the spectacle of Harrods: it is abhorrent and yet you cannot escape the seduction. 

Bad Taste presents a satire of the North American approach to taste, where status and display are often in contradiction to notions of good and bad taste.

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