A SERIES OF GLANCES by Andy Summers

A Visual Symphony of Music and Emotion

The exhibition in Amsterdam also features a series of small prints made during The Police concert tours. Since 1979, the year The Police delivered a legendary performance at Pinkpop, Summers has also been an avid photographer. In 2012, he made the film "Can't Stand Losing You," based on his eponymous autobiography, in which his photography forms an important thread. The photos, taken between 1979 and 2018, show a preference for night shots and span a wide geographical area, from the Altiplano of Bolivia to the streets of Golden Gai in Tokyo. They exhibit a sense of intimacy, surrealism, and situations that can be described as in medias res, right in the middle of the action. Summers suggests that his photography may have been influenced by his fascination with music and that photography serves as a visual counterpart to the music constantly playing in his head. Just as his musical preference can be described as a penchant for the melancholic, convulsive melodic line, the dark chord, and the wandering note, he is also drawn to a sultry minor key photography in his visual practice.