Pause and reflect with Gabriel Moses’ SELAH

Every time someone’s heading to London and asks where to go for art beyond Tate, my first answer is always — 180 Studios. The shows there feel like you’ve stepped into a music video, a Balenciaga campaign, and someone else’s memories all at once. Stylish, loud, and beautifully staged.
I wanted to see Gabriel Moses, SELAH so badly I managed to sneak into the press preview before the official opening.

Gabriel Moses is a photographer who’s already worked with Louis Vuitton, shot Travis Scott, and designed the BRIT Awards statuette — all while still looking like someone who actually lives in South London and has no plans to move to Notting Hill. He made his first portfolio shooting his friends playing football.

The project at 180 Studios was Moses’ largest exhibition to date: over 70 photographs, 10 films, two floors, and one soundtrack stuck in your head on repeat. The title SELAH references a biblical pause in the Psalms — a cue to stop and reflect. Or in Moses’ case, to pause between fashion campaigns and remember his Nigerian grandmother. Literally — one of the exhibition’s threads was his maternal lineage: mother and sister as anchors of cultural memory.

You’d found it all here: from the Fein music video (Travis Scott + Playboi Carti) and Lost Times (Schoolboy Q), to portraits of Skepta, Alek Wek and Jude Bellingham. But the centerpiece was The Last Hour, a short film shot in Atlanta that showed how sometimes loneliness looks better in slow motion. It’s a story of a man searching for redemption.

And honestly? He’s a year younger than me — and has already shot campaigns for Apple, Nike, Dior, and Burberry, portraits of Kanye and Zinedine Zidane (yes, really), and a Dazed cover at 18. All without any formal training. Unspoiled by the rules, you could say.