Jessica Craig-Martin lives a double life. In her day job, she snaps stars and influencers at glitzy parties as a professional photographer, and her images are published worldwide in the pages of magazines such as Vogue and Vanity Fair. In her more subversive artistic practice, however, she pictures the excess of this world in photos that are rather too close for comfort. Tightly cropped, harshly lit and unforgiving, these images provide a humorously lurid and carefully anonymised glimpse beneath the immaculate sheen of high society. Zooming in on moments of debauchery and theatrical details of clothing, jewellery, and cosmetics, the artist undermines this rarefied world’s carefully constructed façade of glamour and sophistication. Based in New York, Craig-Martin has exhibited at institutions including the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid and P.S.1, New York, as well as featuring in the Saatchi Gallery’s 2018 exhibition Black Mirror: Art as Social Satire. Her works are held in the collections of the New Museum and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.