Imitate Modern is a

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-based contemporary photography and art gallery that exhibits work by emerging artists.

About

Imitate Modern was launched in 2011, initially occupying a space in Marylebone, London. In 2015 it became a pop-up gallery, opening in various locations, including 90 Piccadilly and

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. In 2016 the gallery moved to its new permanent space at 19 Shepherd Market, London. Imitate Modern hosted the first London solo exhibitions for

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, Cartrain and Stik. In 2012, the French artist Philippe Shangti presents his exhibition "Saint Tropez to London" whose 28 provocative color images present a visual cocktail of drugs, fetishism, anarchy, sex and death. Imitate Modern hosted a solo exhibition by Rich Simmons, and a retrospective dedicated to Kate Moss's anniversary in 2014 by Russell Marshall called ''40.''

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