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Rafael Arocha is an established fine art photographer who currently lives and works in Barcelona. He was born in Gran Canaria, Spain and has participated in numerous exhibitions throughout his home country. Despite strong ties to Spain, his work is universally relevant; he explores conceptual arenas such as memory, ritual, and ephemerality. In grappling with these subjects, Arocha exhibits a wide range of styles, from intensely dramatic to quietly piercing. In this curated selection from his recent series, Midnight, the photographer uses some of his most powerful techniques to deliver a body of work that is simultaneously charmingly honest and incredibly complex. Arocha investigates memory, and makes us aware of its beautiful but fallible nature with his investigation through intimate worlds, coming in contact with obsessions, doubts, and emotions.
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Sonya Kozlova is an eighteen year old artist. She was born in Moscow, brought up in Milwaukee, and is recently based in Manhattan where she attends New York University. Sonya has been capturing moments with photography for just over a year.
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All of my photographs are primarily taken in my hometown of Milwaukee. Using a Nikon D60 whom I usually call “Joe,” my body of work captures a wide variety from narrative photographs to quiet portraiture. While some pieces such as “Cattails” or “Through” captivate the viewer with form and light, other photographs such as “Phillips,” “Back,” and “Pearls” capture a strong sense of nostalgia, as I created self-portraits where I engage with projections of family slides that represent my deeply rooted Russian family history. However, there remains a consistent thread that binds my series of photographs, a sense of delicate femininity which continues to strongly influence my photographic work to this day.
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Matthias Heiderich born in 1982 in Bad Hersfeld, Germany. He is a self-taught photographer currently living and working in Berlin.
After finishing his university studies in the field of linguistics and phonetics he dedicated more time to his photography. Since 2007 Matthias has worked on a variety of different photographic projects - Colour Berlin, Winter Berlin, Snow Blind, White Noise, Funktionsorte – many of which are based in Berlin.
Urban and suburban regions as well as deserted landscapes are his preferred terrain in his photographic enterprise.
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This series, exclusive to prints995, includes eleven pictures that were photographed in Berlin between 2009 and 2011 by Matthias Heiderich. A minimalist, contemporary gesture is inscribed onto Heiderich’s photography, both formally and in its content. Urban and suburban spaces comprise his preferred terrain, especially industrial regions that, despite their close ties to society, are often devoid of people. This context might suggest that the images produced are grey and melancholic—quite the contrary, these images are recordings of color and contrast.
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Thierry Clech is a French photographer based in Paris. He works exclusively in black and white film. He photographs in locations worldwide, ranging from India, Hong Kong, Istanbul, to Tokyo. He also photographs in his native Paris, particularly the business district of La Defense. He has published two books in collaboration with French novelists Philippe Jaenada and Bernard Chambaz and his work has been exhibited widely in France and abroad.
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Thierry Clech works without any constraint in black and white. He attempts to push beyond the language of seeing without using many photo manipulations. His pictures show an understated, quiet view of life. Each image records the passage of time, capturing seemingly mundane scenes that simultaneously contain magic, surrealism, humor and sadness. Each time Clech takes a photograph, he tries to grasp the scope and accuracy of the moment, as well as its emotional strength. Clech’s images show us his unique and intimate view of the world, seen with respect, wonder and melancholy. Thierry Clech records on film what he sees - light, movement, landscapes and people - as if seeing them for the first and last time, like a child discovering the world, and an elderly man preparing to leave it.
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Francis Minien is a British photographer, born in Reading, England in 1977. He received his B.A. in History and Media Studies from De Montfort University, Leicester, England in 1999 and completed his M.A. in Photography there in 2005. He has been Associate of the Royal Photographic Society for the past 5 years. His work has been published internationally by the likes of London Independent Photography Magazine. In 2010 he released his first self-published book Festival: A view from the crowd. His work has also been acquired by a number of private collectors.
He has exhibited extensively in group and solo shows in the UK and the US, most recently in New York at Soho Photo Gallery. He has also curated a number of exhibitions including the work of 16 photographers in A Global Twenty-Four Hours at the inaugural Biennial Poole Photography Festival in 2004.
He has recently been working with an NGO on raising awareness to the needs of New Orleans in the years after Katrina, and also two microfinance organizations, documenting their work with borrowers most recently for an exhibition at the National Microfinance USA 2010 conference in San Francisco.
He currently works in New York City, where he has lived since 2006.
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Ethnography – An observational science providing accounts of particular culture, society, or community.
Destiny – An individual’s path through life as determined by one’s decisions.
Destined Ethnography – (this is my history) is a photographic essay observing the last five years of my travels as a photographer. The portfolio depicts the visual experience of these travels—not as a travelogue but as an abstraction of the environments I have passed through.
The work conveys a photographic expression of my world and my emotions during the journey. The images depict my state of mind and the language of my emotions.
The compositions come when I am at my psychological and physical extremes, conditions that play on the senses and evoke a visual language using form, color and line. In a daydream-like stasis, the environments that surround me take on a new light. A visualization of the subject emerges almost as non-representational and verging on abstract. It is at this moment that the composition is complete.
These extraordinary images are captured in a straightforward manner; there’s no contrived theme, there’s no documentary and there’s no planning – there is just spontaneity and the moment.
These photographs form part of my destiny through my conscious decisions; the journey has a narrative and the subjects of the compositions have their own stories as well, but it is the abstract expressions of my visualizations that I am photographing.
The series is also a photographic ethnography of my travels conveying a visualization of my view of the global village based on my experiences within my own personal culture and community. It’s a depiction of my descent through cultures and communities, exposing abstracted forms composed of the environments that surround me.
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Dianne Duenzl is a fine art photographer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
She has studied photography at the School of Visual Arts and the International Center of Photography in New York. Blending a combination of traditional photographic methods and digital printmaking, she specializes in hand-crafted black & white prints and cards.
Her work has been privately collected, published in The Sun, and has been purchased for New Mexico Art in Public Places.
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I have always been fascinated by images that seem to be from another time, like scenes from a film. Mystery with a tinge of melancholy is an arresting combination for me. It is the quiet moment, the imperfect beauty, the weathered landscape. These images are part of an on-going attempt to capture a sense of wistfulness and longing that is part of the human condition. I seek ethereal images, whether taken from travels abroad to remote places or much closer to home, in which time stands still, and I can make an emotional connection.
My penchant is to shoot primarily with traditional film and I often have a Holga on hand. I shoot digitally as well. Generally, all effects of the photograph happen “in camera”. I then scan and generate both silver gelatin and archival pigment prints.
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Barbara Dubus was born and raised in Paris. She later chose to relocate to Poland, where she lives and works with her family. The artist is currently developing a long-term photographic project about Poland. Dubus is an avid traveler, who explores the fields of journalism, ethnography and theatre in addition to her work in the fine art photography.
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“Secrets of the Red Sea”
My Secrets of the Red Sea were created between dream and reality, between nights and days, between summer and winter, between the Orient and the Occident.
I invite you to travel into a mysterious and enigmatic world of ancient civilizations, in places where time has another dimension.
I am fascinated by things simple, pure, true, not changed by the artifice of modernity. Sometimes ephemeral and fragile, sometimes immobile and solid like rock.
When I take these pictures, I wonder if I see or imagine this world. That’s why I superpose these moments, these people, these feelings, naturally, just like they come to me.
No invasion, no manipulation, no technique. Just a color negative film and a simple camera like a plastic toy in the middle of the desert.
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Beto Hacker was born and raised in Sao Paulo in 1975. Currently working in Sao Paulo, the artist is self-taught, after having worked for many years as an assistant to several renowned photographers in Sao Paulo.
Hacker was invited to participate in the Expedicao Imagem do Javari. He has visited isolated Indian tribes in the Amazon forest and was accompanied by the ethnographer Sydney Possuelo. There, he registered the Matis, Marubos and Korubos tribes, which resulted in the invitation to exhibit the series at the Premio Porto Seguro de Fotografia.
His series Rubi 75, featured on prints995, was invited by the curator Marcelo Greco to be exhibited at the 4th International Photography Festival, Paraty em Foco, in 2008.
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About “Rubi 75”
Unable to work and freely circulate because of a skateboarding accident, the photographer began to observe his house and family, forced to meditate on what represents private life and its space.
Out of this simple experience- meditating on the basic moments of everyday life- exploded a process rich in personal experience, creativity and intensity. Focusing on the mundane, such as common shared spaces in the house, or the repeated observation of the same walls many times a day with no escape, led the artist to develop a rare level of clarity and emotional truth in his photographs. From a period of time that could have been full of stress and anguish, instead arose a vital poetic energy that the Rubi 75 series encapsulates.
It is a work that rescues us from the rage of big cities where life justifies itself only with big happenings and lots of money. It proposes that we rethink the possibilities of interaction with small things in our life and recover the real pleasure of living. To surprise yourself with a delicate and desirable look from your dog; to your plate of food; to fall in love with your companion through small gestures; to discover life.
This way, Beto, as a young photographer in Sao Paolo, without knowing it, dove deeply into the poetic universe of the banal, so many times presented by a generation of great photographers, although not always granted by a world that claims for great big happenings.
Marcelo Greco, curator
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Luis Castilla achieved a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree specializing in Graphic Design from the University of Seville. The artist began his career as a photographer in 1990, in El Correo de Andalucía. Later, after joining the team of photographers from the Expo 92 in Seville, he worked with various publications specializing in entertainment photography and worked for numerous theater, dance and music companies.
The artist’s experience as a performing arts photographer has had a marked influence on his fine artwork, developing his interest in the human body and its physical and symbolic plasticity. Through his artwork, the artist hence reflects on the relationship between the two disciplines of photography and dance, and how each adds value to each other.
Luis Castilla lives and works in Seville, Spain.
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This photographic series INTX, is an ongoing project, initiated in 2000 as research about the human body and its expressive possibilities. For it, I collaborated with contemporary dancers in photo shoots, in which we proposed a common process in search of a certain quality of movement and body language that would allow us to find moments that disclose raw emotions.
The development of this series lead me to understand the body as a landscape, where each frame captures the excitement of movements, oscillating between reality and fantasy. In this sense, my photographs reflect on areas close to the memory, visions moving in between the tangible and the imagined. Using the body as a canvas, caught in the blink of a moment, I disclose spaces between the lived and dreamed.
To capture my images, I began by utilizing analog photography, followed by laboratory manipulation, and then the use of cameras and digital techniques. The resulting changes in textures and colors highlight a level of distorted reality, reinforcing the idea of detachment between the concrete and the emotional.
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Michelle Dean Kaminer was born of Russian descent in New York City and grew up in northern New Jersey. She received her bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts and Theater from Fordham University at Lincoln Center in 2001. Self-taught in photography, she began taking pictures in 1999. Michelle currently resides in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
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Stunning images surround us in the seemingly mundane and grit of the urban. In my photographs I strive to transform the people and environments of my surroundings into brief, shimmering moments, evanescent objects suspended in time. I evoke this by using light to bring out the essence of the subjects as opposed to merely photographing the subjects themselves. They become representations of another reality; a tranquil reality rising from the chaos normally associated with the urban.
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Florence Montmare was born in Vienna, grew up in Stockholm and ventured to New York in 1996. She studied Photography and Graphic Design at the School of Visual Arts in New York. In 2000 she graduated from the full time program at the International Center of Photography, New York. Her studies resulted in successful collaborations with members of the faculty, such as Robert Blake and Sam Samore, whom she assisted between 2000 and 2005 in his studios in New York and Paris. Her video work has been exhibited in museums all over Europe and most recently her photography was the focus of a documentary on national Japanese TV. She currently resides in NYC.
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In my work I explore the themes of self-representation and gaze. Interested in photography’s ability to blur the notions of fiction and memory, I explore concepts of time and the reconstruction through memory. Intimacy and disconnection are themes that intrigue me. I have turned the camera onto my self and my close relationships. Psychological ambiguities become apparent when memory meets imagination and love and intimacy encounters longing and disconnection. Interested in the non-specificity of body (any body), I explore the transient– a body in space.
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Ennid Berger is a photographer, painter and writer who is based in New York and Key West, Florida. Like the reclusive Joseph Cornell, she grew up on Utopia Parkway in middle class Queens, and transformed the ordinary into her own mysterious world through her paintings, drawings, assemblages and photography. In 2010, her photograph, “Construction (Singapore),” was named “Best in Show” at the First Long Island Biennial at the Heckscher Museum in Huntington, New York. Other photographic prints have been critically acclaimed and extensively exhibited at venues that include the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, Bloomingdale’s in Garden City, Long Island, and the Dana Gallery of Rutgers University. Her photographs are found in private collections throughout the Northeast and Asia, as well as in the permanent collection of the Zimmerli Museum of Art at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
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With a creative soul, Ennid captures the raw energy of the city with a contemporary flair. Her neo-surrealistic images have a painterly aesthetic enhanced by her preference for the palette of grainy, high-speed black and white film. The resulting black and white pictures are reminiscent of Seurat’s black and white pointillist drawings, and invite you to enter a surreal world of flickering light and shadow. Phyllis Braaff, writing for the New York Times, called the artist’s print, “Delray Night #2”, a “major” piece that “achieves abstract surfaces through the use of light.”
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Jose Soto studied at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas where he obtained a B.A. in Image and Design, in 2000. From 1997 to 2000, he worked as a photography assistant in the studio of John Betancourt.
In 2004, Soto founded Eclipse Multimedia, a company that offers photographic and graphic design services. In 2006, he won the Gold Award in the category of Fashion and Advertising granted by the magazine B&W Photography. That same year he was in charge of the photography for the book Puerto Rico True Flavors edited by Chef Wilo Benet. In 2007, he won a prize in the category of Special Events of the XIX Certamen Excel of the Asociación de Relacionistas Profesionales de Puerto Rico. In 2008, he was among the finalists in the Certamen de Arte Joven Oriental and the Beca Lexus Para Artistas. Since 1998, his artistic work has been exhibited in seven group exhibitions at the Viota Gallery, the Escuela de Artes Plásticas, the Oriental Group and the Universidad Metropolitana. In 2002, he made a work for the public art exhibition, Absolut Art in the Plaza, which took place in Old San Juan. In 2008, he presented three solo shows: Acuario at Emporio Peroni in Condado, P.R., Dimensiones at Payá Native Bistro and José Soto: Recent Works in Viota Gallery, in collaboration with Walter Otero Gallery, in Güaynabo, P.R.
His work is represented in the following collections: Arco Capital Management, Maximum Digital Communications, Wilo Benet, Luis Gutiérrez, Pabón family, Quiñónez family, León family and Walter Otero.
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I want my pictures to reveal what is behind our immediate reality, to be playful and mysterious. I strive to explore structures and forms that are repeated in nature. I am captivated by the “concealed machinery” that is behind all that exists. From my perception, these works evoke the essence of structures such as bridges and temples, as well as natural and astral landscapes. I imagine that these spaces house memories, feelings, and thoughts that together compose the real being of things. They are spaces that can only be contemplated and where one can only be.
“Accustomed as we are to the portrait that reveals social realities, the enamored or changed landscape, or images of our urban and domestic surroundings, Soto’s photographs come across as shocking and pleasing at the same time. In his work we encounter little spheres that defy gravity, gentle craters and lines of undulating force, suggestive of contorted bodies. Distanced from the faces of our people, our monuments or desires, in other words, from our immediate reality, these photographs present us with a playful and mysterious world, both pleasant and intimidating, one that invites introspection…. It is necessary to confront the images and the feelings they arouse. For the work of Soto has a deceptive quality. At first sight, they may seem mere decorations; so beautiful are their compositions and colors. But the truth is that, given the chance, the works provoke intense feelings, suspicion, and joy…. these works are at the same time abstract and suggestive of the visible world, unchaining associative processes in our psyche.”-Mercedes Trelles Hernández
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Victoria was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1981, and was raised in New York City. She received her Degree in Art History while attending Franklin College in Lugano, Switzerland. Dearing has traveled extensively throughout Europe, North, Central, and South America, and Africa, using photography to communicate life as she sees it in the moment, with no restrictions on her creative output. Photography is also her means to collaborate with others on philanthropic projects.
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Victoria Dearing draws from the wide and plentiful world around her: paint striped strongly down the soft of a woman’s back; faces of African children; objects in dark silhouette; background skylines, drifting, soft and ethereal; visions of light; cohesive energy; intention.
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Verónica Kretschmer was born in Chicago in 1975. She lived in Mexico until the age of 16, when she left for Chile to study architecture. Her passion for photography began when she was a girl and led her to study with renowned Chilean photographer, Andrés Poirot. This experience allowed her to improve her knowledge of technique, composition, and analog amplification. While traveling, she took pictures of architecture and every day life events, establishing her photographic vision.
Verónica attended the Art Faculty of the University of Chile, where she was introduced to alternative techniques and acquired artistic and creative vision. The artist then spent time in Venice, Italy while studying for her Master’s degree. The contemporary art of the Venice Biennale combined with the ancient art of the cityscape had a deep impact on her vision of art and aesthetics.
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About “Everyday Abstractions”
This series is an invitation to see things in a different way, for pure aesthetic enjoyment. It ponders an aesthetic language that can be found even in the most obvious places of our everyday urban landscape, such as ripped billboards, the focus of this series. From this perspective, everything has a different reading- one in which any object may be attractive and seductive to a sensitive eye. To achieve this, the artist encloses visual objects inside technological images, bringing the visualization out of context further through tight framing and extreme closeness to the objects. She then transports them to large format, endowing the objects with a new aesthetic charge.
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Born in 1973 in Paris, Valérie Dray now lives, loves and works in New York and Paris. “The day I left”, her first installation, was shown during Art Basel Miami, december 07. Valérie Dray work, was shown in publications such as Vogue.com, glamour and menstyle france.
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In her installations of photographs, Valérie Dray is interested in the poetic state of daily life. Her works play on melancholy and the ephemeral fragility of things.
Her latest work was included in the project of the laureate of the Villa Medicis, Pascal Gautrand about Romans tailors, “when in Rome, do as the Romans do” and will be shown in Milan in September.
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Ramon Singley, II graduated from California State University, Long Beach with a Bachelors Degree in Journalism and worked as a freelance writer for several years. Later he made the decision to give up the position as an assistant staff editor of a magazine to pursue his passion for photography, thus embarking on a three-year voyage at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
The artist now lives and works in New York.
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About “Streetheads”
These photographs are of everyday people in and around New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Originally printed on canvas, I’ve eliminated much of the background and scenery with acrylic and oil paint as an experiment to focus on the most obvious portion and focal point of the photograph- the revealing of ordinary, yet relevant faces. Hence, this is a mixed media piece. By having the subject in a white space, almost portrait like, it is meant to give the observer opportunity sojourn and to relate to the person(s) in their state of existence. It is a private moment left to the imagination as to what they were contemplating amid the fleetness of their expressions. We all, at one time or another, have experienced these same types of moments in our own lives.
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Ramon Estevanell was born and raised in Havana, Cuba. He holds a Bachelor in photography from NYU and he’s now based in the East Village, NYC.
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The world of colors, as it is, exists only as a chemical reaction between matter and light and its consequent interpretation by the human brain. Yet, colors and our perception of space are everything our life seems to conform to.
But, is it really?
Emotions and memories seem to live within us as a dormant avalanche. The eye catches a glitter and an inverted reflection, and in the back of our eyes triggers a spark that opens the gates of our sentiments, and we are flooded by them.
Do we then truly live in the outside or in the inside?
This body of work intends to explore these figurations.
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Mike Ruiz, a New York-based photographer, is best known for his high-impact, surreal brand of celebrity and fashion photography. He’s worked with everyone from Debbie Harry and Jennifer Lopez to Lindsay Lohan and Zac Efron. His work has appeared in countless American and international magazines such as Vanity Fair, Flaunt, Conde Nast Traveler, Interview, Paper, Citizen K, Dazed and Confused, Arena, Italian Elle, Spanish and Brazilian Vogue. He was a contributor to Dolce and Gabbana’s “Hollywood” book and Iman’s “The Beauty of Color.” He’s also appeared on “America’s Next Top Model”, “Style Her Famous” and Kathy Griffin’s “My Life on the D-List.” Mike made his feature film directorial debut in 2007 with RuPaul’s uproarious comedy “Starrbooty.” Mike appeared as a celebrity guest judge on the show “RuPaul’s Drag Race”, which premiered on Logo in February 2009. He’s also directed several music videos for the likes of Kelly Rowland, Kristine W, Traci Lords, Jody Watley and Sylvia Tosun. Mike is a founding partner of Miauhaus, the elite Los Angeles photography complex featuring four full-service photo studios.
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I’ve created a life for myself that is in every way an expression of my fantasies. Reality is not always somewhere I want to live, so through my work I’m able to see everything through rose colored glasses. That is what art means to me.
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Micheal M. Koehler, raised in Philadelphia, started photographing on the streets, in local barbershops, churches and other community establishments where he learned that making photographs was based on the relationship that he shared with his subjects. After receiving a B.F.A from New York University Tisch School of the Arts in 2005, he traveled the country and abroad to photograph, interacting with both the people and the landscape. He has worked as a photojournalist for the Philadelphia City Paper and the Philadelphia Tribune. His work has been published in numerous magazines, such as American Photo, PixelPress.org and Complex Magazine. He has shown his work in galleries and museums, such as the Leica Gallery in New York, the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia, Subliminal Projects Gallery in Los Angeles and the Sandro Chia Studio in Rome. He currently lives and works in New York City.
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Klara Landrat was born in Warsaw. She attended California College of Arts for photography, and graduated in painting from Hunter College City University of New York. Since then she has traveled extensively all over the world, working on a variety of her artistic projects and creative work that oscillates between fashion, beauty and fine art photography as well as painting. She is interested in human interiors- repeatedly shown in a way that provokes unambiguous associations- and man’s entanglement in reality on cultural and religious level.
Her ambient photographs are reminiscent of bygone times, and refer directly to Jewish culture and tradition existing in Poland until World War II. On the other hand, the human emotions and intuitive forms of the subconscious comprise her paintings and works on paper. Varying from the intuitive perception of the representation of carnal and uncontrollable aspects of human condition, her work evokes an exploration of an infinite interpretation of the unperceivable universe. She is currently working on a photographic series representing life of Bedouins and ethnic minorities in the Middle East. Her work has been shown in New York and in museums in Europe. Klara Landrat lives between New York, Los Angeles and Tel Aviv.
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About the “Tallit Project”
The “Tallit project” was conceived as a continuous photographic documentation of places of the artist’s origin. The “Tallit” (from Hebrew) is worn almost exclusively during prayer and represents a “shelter” for the soul or “a curtain that stretches out to the heavens” and plays an integral part in Jewish religious practice. While other Jewish garments might be treated more casually, the Tallit holds a special personal significance and is generally used for many years or even for a lifetime and is never discarded. The Tallit is treated with great respect, as though it possesses a mantle of holiness.
Having grown up in a Poland stripped almost entirely of its Jewish community, the artist went on a series of trips to revisit her homeland, rediscover her past and to commune with her ancestors. In this tribute to the artist’s lost family, “Tallit project” grew out of the search for life and the recognition of its tangible, unforgettable qualities.
All the photographs are based on photographic fiber paper prints that are then multi bleached and toned, giving each image a unique appearance.
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Kiki Allgeier is a New York based artist who blends elements of fiction, documentary, and experimental film with the aim of creating a dynamic and innovative experience for the viewer. Her idiosyncratic view of the world shapes her work and encourages others to examine their own assumptions. Kiki’s films, performances, and videos have been presented at sites such as Art Basel and Art Basel Miami, the Tribecca Film Festival, Monkey Town, and the Aurora Picture show. She has collaborated as the director of photography and editor for Lawrence Weiner’s film “Water Exists in Milk”, and with Ralph Gibson on his film project “Ich Bin die Nacht”.
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I went to Tierra Del Fuego because I felt lost, and knowingly walked alongside many others who wanted to feel what it felt like at the end of the world. I arrived to find a town full of English words on signs catering to the many tourists that travel to Tierra Del Fuego to see what it’s like at the end.
A little further down the street hidden behind blank white walls with no words or statements, I found factories producing the televisions and cell phones that were supposedly adrift here. I took the boat to the lighthouse at the end, because this is where I was told the broken inside me would feel whole again. The tourist boat did not allow any stops. Thus, my feet didn’t feel the soil, and I found myself trapped and not at the end.
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Gerald Dearing was born in Normandy in 1940. He currently lives and works in New York City.
Gerald Dearing’s approach to photography is simple and direct:
Working spontaneously and without artifice, Gerald seeks to capture the authenticity of the moment- no tricks, no manipulation, the technique of no technique. The results reflect such directness. They are intimate, honest, unadorned and ruggedly pure. Within his images lies a sharp sense of transience, a soul both deeply contemplative and melancholic.
Gerald, born and raised in the luminous light of coastal Normandy in the 1940’s, has a body of work spanning over thirty years. He discovered the Polaroid Land Camera 180 early in his career and it has become the perfect vehicle to fulfill his creative intentions. The Polaroid’s images are not only immediate, but like Gerald’s work, make no attempt to conceal the markings and scratches of time.
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Selected Exhibitions
2008 gallerynine5, Indivisible, New York, NY
2007 Time and Space Limited, Hudson, NY
2006 Gallagher’s Art Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Time and Space Limited, Hudson, NY
2003 Time and Space Limited, Hudson, NY
Selected Press
2008 Flavorpill, “Gerald Dearing: Indivisible”, by Joel Withrow , July
2005 American Photo Magazine, “Gerald Dearing’s Time to Shine Comes at Last”, by Jeffrey Elbies
2005 Times Union: Art Events, “A Celebration of the Spontaneous Image”, by Tresca Weinsten, January
2004 Italian Photo Magazine, “Il Poeta Normano E La Soggezza Della Cose Semplici”, by Michele Moilnari , April, Italy
2003 German Photo Magazine, “Das Besondere Porfolio: Suche Nach Der Verlorenen Ziet” , by Manfred Zollner , September, Germany
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