Johnny Green
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Commissions
For commissions, please contact:
commission@johnnyintheechocafe.co.uk
Print Sales
Limited edition Lambda C-type and giclée prints of all photographs displayed on this website are available to order in various sizes, framed or unframed. Prints can also be leased on a short-term basis. For further information including print and edition sizes, pricing or to place an order, write to:
printsales@johnnyintheechocafe.co.uk
Projects
Kernow / Tresor was shot during a two-week artist residency at CMR Project Space in Redruth, Cornwall, during August 2025, and completed in 2026. A video piece, Onen, Deu, Try was filmed and produced during the residency, along with a sound installation entitled #3.
The Black Swan, Green’s second book, covers the period from February 2020 to September 2021 and was published in September 2025.
Saint Etienne at Mario’s Cafe was a solo exhibition of 20 years worth of concert photographs of the band Saint Etienne by Johnny Green, which took place during the summer. of ‘22’. Photographs were sold in limited editions of two plus one artist’s print, with some still available.
Transience is Green’s debut photo book, self-published under his own FL label in spring, 2017. Designed with Fabrice Couillerot and printed by Balto Print, the 150 page hardback book is limited to 500 copies and priced at £25 +p&p (£5 UK, £10 Europe, £15 Worldwide). For further information, please email:
transience@johnnyintheechocafe.co.uk
Transience the film (42'19) was produced with Fabiola Simonetti and is available to view for free under the Film section of this website and on YouTube. Please write to the above email address for screening opportunities.
The Love began on February 14, 2015 as a daily post on Facebook and then later via Instagram as an attempt to create something positive and beautiful. Showcasing new and past work, the photographs act as a reflection of the times. The Love represents a more hopeful and positive approach to journalism (think the wonderful magazine Positive News), while also referencing Arthur Lee's late '60s Californian idealism. Forever changes, but love stories play on and on.
Don't You Want to be Free? was exhibited at Lauderdale House in London in April and May of 2013. The show consisted of 30 photographs from the project hung in the Lower Gallery and Entrance Hall of the house. During the opening and closing parties, screenings of Don't You Want to be Free? (47'11) were shown. The film, produced with Fabiola Simonetti, consists of work shot between 2008 and 2012, with 527 photographs mixed across a soundtrack of twelve songs.
It has often been my dream was an intermediary body of work, including photographs from both God knows how I adore life and Those eyes are enough to take this heart of mine, as well as new material. It was exhibited in the pop-up shop J. Green & Son on Woburn Walk in Bloomsbury, central London, acquired with the help of Camden Council for a month in late 2010 and early 2011. Opening and closing parties were held, along with two concerts and a sixth form photography workshop, as well as raising money for Card Aid.
In 2012 It has often been my dream travelled to Trementina Artes in Bogotá, Colombia, for a six-week residency where a new narrative was created. The photographs featured here were printed and exhibited in either or both the London or Bogotá shows. A new film, Heart & Soul, was premiered in Bogotá, along with screenings of God knows how I adore life and Those eyes are enough to take this heart of mine.
Heart & Soul (6'04), is a collection of 46 photographs, laid over Joy Division's Heart And Soul, of a journey from The End, in every sense, coming after the final night of The End nightclub in London and of the resulting trip home. It was produced with Ish Kalia and Fabiola Simonetti.
God knows how I adore life is Green's second album, completed in 2008 and premiered at Red Dot Art Fair at The Radisson Edwardian Grafton Hotel in London. The project was conceived throughout 2006 and consists of 360 photographs shot in 13 countries between late 2005 and November 2007. The film was originally produced with Steve Chawner and remixed in 2015 with Fabiola Simonetti.
‘Those eyes are enough to take this heart of mine’ was conceived in late 2004 and completed in April 2007. The work consists of 328 still photographs, shot in 26 countries between 1996 and 2005, with a soundtrack of 12 pieces of music curated by the artist, including an eponymous song written especially for the film by Rocinante. It was again produced with Steve Chawner and remixed in 2015 with Fabiola Simonetti. Its premiere was at the Frontline Club in London in December 2007.
Many of the above works are, in their fullest form, films of still photography mixed over soundtracks curated by the artist, with six projects available as installation pieces for screening. All projects are available as print exhibitions. The copyright for all songs remains with their respective creators or third parties.
Johnny Green has also been djing since 1994, beginning with the radio show Alva Park, with Ish Kalia on Leeds Student Radio (LSR). From 2000, Green has djed across London especially, either under the moniker Alva Park (including a 10 year residency at The Foundry with Kalia), or with Joe Disco and nights Baby Slow Down, Only Love Can Break Your Heart and Space/Deep Disco.
Venues have included The Social, Servant Jazz Quarters, Dalston Social, The Stags Head, The Ivy House, Institute of Contemporary Art, The Foundry, Dalston Project, Trafik, Great Eastern Hotel, Dust, Paradise, Kiss The Sky, Clerkenwell House, The Rose, Southwark Tavern, The Well, Baroque and El Dorado.
Further information can be found on Instagram or Facebook at Johnny Green, as well as at Saatchi Art:
https://www.saatchiart.com/Green
Gallery
For anything gallery related including forthcoming or past shows, future or past projects, please write to:
gallery@johnnyintheechocafe.co.uk
Information
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info@johnnyintheechocafe.co.uk