Craigie Horsfield

Although this British photographer lives and works part-time in New York, he’s somewhat unknown to American audiences, outside of a hard-core circle of photo aficionados. That’s too bad, because throughout his 40-year career, he’s consistently produced a wide variety of images—portraits of acquaintances, anonymous crowds and beasties at the zoo—that are as spectacular as their subjects are ordinary. He often waits for years and even decades to pass between taking a picture and printing it, giving the result a patina of memory. Here, a series of colossal photo tapestries depicts the center ring of a circus, in which horses prance on hind legs and tigers sit in cages, awaiting their moment to perform.