Goodbye to the 90s with Marc Vallée and James Cahill | July 2026 | The Photographers’ Gallery, London
Marc Vallée and James Cahill at The Photographers’ Gallery, London, 2026. Photo: © Alexander Christie.
Marc Vallée joined the novelist and art critic James Cahill in conversation at The Photographers’ Gallery, London to mark the publication of his new book, 90s Archive: Volume Four, which wrapped up his 90s archive series.
Marc Vallée and James Cahill at The Photographers’ Gallery, London, 2026. Photo: © Alexander Christie.
The Photographers’ Gallery, London, 2026. Photo: © Alexander Christie.
Marc Vallée and James Cahill at The Photographers’ Gallery, London, 2026. Photo: © Alexander Christie.
Marc and James took a deep dive into all four books, reflecting on the 1990s from both personal and cultural perspectives. Their conversation spanned artistic icons and incidental experiences, retracing the myths and the realities of a fast-receding era: indie queer boys, coming-of-age in south New Jersey, an androgynous boy with a gun in a basement flat off Portland Place, and Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss backstage at London Fashion Week, De La Soul at Wembley Arena, Blink-182 in Soho, and more in the new publication.
The Photographers’ Gallery, London, 2026. Photo: © Alexander Christie.
James Cahill at The Photographers’ Gallery, London, 2026. Photo: © Alexander Christie.
James Cahill is a writer and art historian. He is the author of two novels, The Violet Hour (2025), a psychodrama set in the international world of contemporary art, and Tiepolo Blue (2022), which was shortlisted for the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award and selected for H.M. the Queen’s Reading Room. He contributes to publications including Artforum, the Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement and the Spectator. His latest book, The Beverly Hills Housewife, a ranging study of David Hockney and his earliest Californian muse, will be published in September by Thames & Hudson.
The Photographers’ Gallery, London, 2026. Photo: © Alexander Christie.