In Touch With the Galaxy

Rachel Hunter Himes | The Nation | 18th August 2025

Starting out as a documentary photographer, Simpson was quickly acclaimed for her conceptual juxtapositions of text and images. Like the Pictures Generation photographers, she focused on the way images sway our views of gender and identity. Now she has a “corner-turning” show of paintings, where meaning is equally opaque. Simpson merges magazine images with images of snowy landscapes, rocks, waterfalls, drawing a link, not so much with Black experience as with vast “time and space”.