Johnnie Shand Kydd considers himself more of an opportunist than an artist. He came to photography by accident, without any formal training, but his timing could not have been better. While working at a gallery in the early '90s, Shand Kydd began photographing his artist friends at work and play. By luck, his pals turned out to be the artists of the moment, YBAs such as Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, and Sarah Lucas. In 1997, he was commissioned to photograph the Sensation artists for the catalogue, and Thames & Hudson published Spit Fire , a monograph of his informal snapshots. Now Shand Kydd is back with a volume of rough-and-ready, black-and white photos of artistic royalty, though this time around they're not just Brits. Rachel Feinstein is caught wearing the same shades she sports in a nearby John Currin painting, Jeff Koons signs a fan's blouse while surrounded by autograph seekers, and Maurizio Cattelan vacuums the rug around his sculpture of the pope felled by a meteor. But Shand Kydd hasn't forgotten his old mates; he continues to snap the underbelly of the London art scene with apparent ease.