Slickly, 'Mane'

A serene portrayal of a horse’s silhouette, highlighting the graceful curve of its mane. Slickly was a World Champion miler and leading French sire.

John Reardon created a portable studio of all-white walls and had the stallions stare into his lens as if they were movie stars.

One year, he went to photograph every major race, wherever it was run, anywhere in the world: he'd unfailingly find the story and tell it in a few startling frames - ever eclectic, ever hectic.