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EXHIBITION #1
MY PLAYHOUSE by Annette Burke
FIRST PLACE
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FIRST PLACE
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Curator Laurie Freitag's review: 'My Playhouse' takes me and perhaps the viewer back to another time. Just as images remind us of what has come before, in this case as Annette LeMay Burke uses the cabin as a backdrop for the image, it reminds me of my own childhood when my uncle would get out the 16mm projector and we watched 'old movies' of our family. To me it was magical. It was before I was drawn to photography and there was nothing better than seeing what our family looked like when they were younger. It was a record of a time to play back anytime. And that power to play back time is what ultimately drew me to photography. For me, the playhouse doubles for a screen and the image is just a moment of many that could at any moment turn into another image.
LeMay's use of overlaying the image on the cabin or 'playhouse' speaks to home and memory. A playhouse is a harbor for a child to be alone with their thoughts, of honing their imaginations and projecting their inner most emotions. The child stands in the door welcoming the future and bidding fond farewell to the past, or just standing in the moment, being a child, as children do, just being present. 'My Playhouse' is really a special image that I'm sure could have many varied meanings to each different viewer."
Laurie Freitag asks Annette LeMay Burke, "'My Playhouse' is such a strong image. It speaks to the timelessness of childhood and home. What in particular did you hope to convey when you made this image?"
Annette LeMay Burke says, "This image is part of a larger series called Memory Building. In that series, I projected photos from my parents’ archive onto the surfaces of my childhood home and re-photographed the scene. By juxtaposing the photos from the past onto the present-day walls, I unearthed 60 years of engrained memories and tried to capture my family’s vanishing history that once permeated the house.
I am the child in the playhouse image. My initial thought when creating the image was to show that the space once belonged to me and also to note how much has changed with time. In the initial snapshot, I’m standing on the threshold as the playhouse is being built, similar to how we are on the precipice of the rest of lives as children and our character is being formed. In the final image, the building has weathered a lot and had many roles in its life, but is still standing."
Freitag says, "Did the Covid- 19 Stay-at-home orders play a part in this image?"
LeMay Burke says, "Somewhat. My childhood home is about 30 minutes from my current residence. It was one of the safe spaces I could work in 2020."
Freitag says, "Our past, present, and future are intimately linked by our memories. When you look at this image, what memories are clarified to you?"
LeMay Burke says, "While I had a lot of fun with my young friends in the playhouse, this image does not bring one particular memory to mind. For me it has a broader message—it clarifies how important it is to honor your inner child. Don’t forget that childhood sense of play and creativity. Try to see the world with a fresh perspective. The overgrown weeds show how easy it is to neglect that part of ourselves, but she is always there."
Annette LeMay Burke says about her series, 'Character Building',
"It’s never easy to say goodbye to the places that have structured our lives. After my parents’ deaths, I inherited their home, memories, photographs and possessions. In this series, I’ve expressed my final farewell to my beloved childhood home by projecting my family’s photos onto the walls of the house. By juxtaposing the projected photographs onto the home’s surfaces, I have unearthed 60 years of memories engrained into the confines of our home.
While some memories may be fading, my formative experiences are rooted and intertwined within this dwelling. Even as the rooms are literally whitewashed in preparation for new owners, my memories still continue to resonate within its walls."
Annette LeMay Burke (b. 1964) is a photographic artist and Northern California native who lives in the heart of Silicon Valley. Numerous family road trips throughout California and the West honed her eye for observing the landscape. By eight years old, she had her own Instamatic camera and graduated to a Minolta X-700 as a teen.
While earning a BA in Earth Science from the University of California at Berkeley, she took her first darkroom class. After a career in high-tech, and studying design, Annette has now merged her interests. Her artistic practice focuses on how we interact with the natural world, the landscapes constructed by the artifacts of technology, and the more intangible artifacts that are created throughout our lives.
Annette's first monograph, Fauxliage - Disguised Cell Towers of the American West (Daylight Books, Spring 2021), documents the proliferation of disguised cell phone towers and how new technologies are modifying our landscapes with idiosyncratic results.
Her work has been exhibited throughout the US and internationally at institutions such as Center for Photographic Art (CA), Colorado Photographic Arts Center (CO), Griffin Museum of Photography (MA), Texas Photographic Society (TX), Academy of Art Museum (MD), The Center for Fine Art Photography (CO), Photographic Center Northwest (OR), Canary Wharf in London, UK, and FotoNostrum, Barcelona.
CV
Education
1987Earth Science, B.A., University of California, Berkeley, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
202015th Pollux Awards Non-Professional Open Series (6 images), Honorable Mention, The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards, London/Barcelona
2020 International Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA - Juror: Aline Smithson
TPS 29: The International Competition, Texas Photographic Society, Houston, TX - Juror: Elizabeth Avedon
2020 AOP Open Award (4 images), Finalist, Association of Photographers, London, UK – Curators: Anne Manion and Tim Flach
26th Annual Juried Exhibition Show, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA – Juror: Alexa Dilworth
Annual Members' Show, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO - Juror: Ann Jastrab
The Road, South x Southeast Gallery, Molena, GA - Juror: Rich McCabe
The Contemporary Landscape, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC - Juror: Adam Monohon
New Photography II (2 images), Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD - Juror: Philip Brookman
2020 Members’ Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA - Jurors: Ann Jastrab and Laura Sackett
Open Theme, Praxis Photo Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN - Juror: Ann Jastrab
The Best Medicine (2 images), Dickerman Prints Gallery, San Francisco, CA - Jurors: Ann Jastrab, Stuart Kogod, Seth Dickerman
The Road, JKC Gallery, Trenton, NJ - Jurors: Dana Stirling and Yoav Friedlander
The Ones That Got Away, The Curated Fridge, Boston, MA and Aline Smithson's Kitchen in L.A. - Curated by Yorgos Efthymiadis2019Urban Landscape, Texas Photographic Society, Houston, TX - Juror: Jamie Stillings
San Francisco Bay International Photography Exhibition, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA - Jurors: Elizabeth Avedon, Julie Grahame, Ann Jastrab, David Garnick
Annual Members' Show, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO - Juror: Kat Kiernan
25th Juried Exhibition Slide Show, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA - Jurors: Julie Grahame and Paula Tognarelli
TPS 28: The International Competition, Texas Photographic Society, Houston, TX - Juror: Arthur Meyerson
11th Anniversary Issue, May 2019, Issue 122, Faction Online Magazine - Editors: David Bram and Bree Lamb
PCNW 22ND Juried Photography Exhibition, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA - Jurors: Conor Risch and Lara Behnert20182018 International Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA - Juror: Eve Schillo
Autumn 2018 Show, The Curated Fridge, Boston, MA - Juror: Kat Kiernan
The Portfolios (4 images), LightBox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, OR - Jurors: Michael and Chelsea Granger
Lies (4 images), Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO - Juror: Richard McCabe
Landscapes 2018 (2 images), Honorable Mention, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO - Juror: Allie Haeusslein
13th Annual National Photography Competition (2 images), fotofoto gallery, Huntington, NY - Juror: Ann Jastrab20172017 International Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA - Juror: Philip Brookman
Americana (2 images), Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO - Juror: Darren Ching
New Directions 2017 (2 images), Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY - Juror: Ruth Erickson
2017 California Open Exhibition, TAG Gallery, Los Angeles, CA - Juror: Scott Canty
2017 CPA Members' Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA - Jurors: Elizabeth Corden and Jan Potts2014The Perimeter of the World, Contemporary Travel Photography, RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco, CA - Jurors: Ann Jastrab and Judy Walgren
One Shot: One World, IPA (Int'l Photography Awards), Honorable Mention - Jurors: Amy Wolff, Damien Poulain, Robert Berman
Mainland, The Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, VA - Juror: Stella Kramer
2014 Juried Exhibition (2 images), Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA - Juror: Diana L. Daniels
Five Elements, Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction, VT - Juror: Eddie Soloway
New Color Photography, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR - Juror: Kelli PenningtonAwardsFinalist - 2020 AOP Open Award, Association of Photographers, London, UK – Curators: Anne Manion and Tim Flach
Honorable Mention - 15th Pollux Awards Non-Professional Open Series, London/Barcelona
Honorable Mention - Landscapes 2018, The Center for Fine Art Photography - Juror: Allie Haeusslein
Finalist - Photolucida Critical Mass 2017
Jurored Participant - CENTER Review Santa Fe 2017 and 2020/21MonographFauxliage, Daylight Books, Spring 2021Publications and Press
2020Modern Photographer Listing, All-About-Photo.com, by Sandrine Hermand-Grisel2017Photo of the Day, Don't Take Pictures Blog, by Kat Kiernan
Annette LeMay Burke: Fauxliage, All-About-Photo.com, by Ann Jastrab
Career Highlights
In 2017, she was a finalist for Photolucida’s Critical Mass. In 2020 she was a finalist for the UK’s AOP Open Award, and received an honorable mention for the 15th Pollux Award Open Series. Her first monograph, Fauxliage – Disguised Cell Phone Towers of the American West, will be published in the spring of 2021 by Daylight Books.
IMAGES FOR SALE
My Playhouse - 13”H x 17”W
Archival Pigment Print
$450 unframed
Limited edition of 12
Signed on verso
Dining Room Dinghy - 13”H x 17”W
Archival Pigment Print
$450 unframed
Limited edition of 12
Signed on verso
Christening Day - 13”H x 17”W
Archival Pigment Print
$450 unframed
Limited edition of 12
Signed on verso
Contact: Annette LeMay Burke
annette@atelierlemay.com
www.atelierlemay.com
http://www.instagram.com/atelierlemay/
LeMay's use of overlaying the image on the cabin or 'playhouse' speaks to home and memory. A playhouse is a harbor for a child to be alone with their thoughts, of honing their imaginations and projecting their inner most emotions. The child stands in the door welcoming the future and bidding fond farewell to the past, or just standing in the moment, being a child, as children do, just being present. 'My Playhouse' is really a special image that I'm sure could have many varied meanings to each different viewer."
Laurie Freitag asks Annette LeMay Burke, "'My Playhouse' is such a strong image. It speaks to the timelessness of childhood and home. What in particular did you hope to convey when you made this image?"
Annette LeMay Burke says, "This image is part of a larger series called Memory Building. In that series, I projected photos from my parents’ archive onto the surfaces of my childhood home and re-photographed the scene. By juxtaposing the photos from the past onto the present-day walls, I unearthed 60 years of engrained memories and tried to capture my family’s vanishing history that once permeated the house.
I am the child in the playhouse image. My initial thought when creating the image was to show that the space once belonged to me and also to note how much has changed with time. In the initial snapshot, I’m standing on the threshold as the playhouse is being built, similar to how we are on the precipice of the rest of lives as children and our character is being formed. In the final image, the building has weathered a lot and had many roles in its life, but is still standing."
Freitag says, "Did the Covid- 19 Stay-at-home orders play a part in this image?"
LeMay Burke says, "Somewhat. My childhood home is about 30 minutes from my current residence. It was one of the safe spaces I could work in 2020."
Freitag says, "Our past, present, and future are intimately linked by our memories. When you look at this image, what memories are clarified to you?"
LeMay Burke says, "While I had a lot of fun with my young friends in the playhouse, this image does not bring one particular memory to mind. For me it has a broader message—it clarifies how important it is to honor your inner child. Don’t forget that childhood sense of play and creativity. Try to see the world with a fresh perspective. The overgrown weeds show how easy it is to neglect that part of ourselves, but she is always there."
Annette LeMay Burke says about her series, 'Character Building',
"It’s never easy to say goodbye to the places that have structured our lives. After my parents’ deaths, I inherited their home, memories, photographs and possessions. In this series, I’ve expressed my final farewell to my beloved childhood home by projecting my family’s photos onto the walls of the house. By juxtaposing the projected photographs onto the home’s surfaces, I have unearthed 60 years of memories engrained into the confines of our home.
While some memories may be fading, my formative experiences are rooted and intertwined within this dwelling. Even as the rooms are literally whitewashed in preparation for new owners, my memories still continue to resonate within its walls."
Annette LeMay Burke (b. 1964) is a photographic artist and Northern California native who lives in the heart of Silicon Valley. Numerous family road trips throughout California and the West honed her eye for observing the landscape. By eight years old, she had her own Instamatic camera and graduated to a Minolta X-700 as a teen.
While earning a BA in Earth Science from the University of California at Berkeley, she took her first darkroom class. After a career in high-tech, and studying design, Annette has now merged her interests. Her artistic practice focuses on how we interact with the natural world, the landscapes constructed by the artifacts of technology, and the more intangible artifacts that are created throughout our lives.
Annette's first monograph, Fauxliage - Disguised Cell Towers of the American West (Daylight Books, Spring 2021), documents the proliferation of disguised cell phone towers and how new technologies are modifying our landscapes with idiosyncratic results.
Her work has been exhibited throughout the US and internationally at institutions such as Center for Photographic Art (CA), Colorado Photographic Arts Center (CO), Griffin Museum of Photography (MA), Texas Photographic Society (TX), Academy of Art Museum (MD), The Center for Fine Art Photography (CO), Photographic Center Northwest (OR), Canary Wharf in London, UK, and FotoNostrum, Barcelona.
CV
Education
1987Earth Science, B.A., University of California, Berkeley, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
202015th Pollux Awards Non-Professional Open Series (6 images), Honorable Mention, The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards, London/Barcelona
2020 International Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA - Juror: Aline Smithson
TPS 29: The International Competition, Texas Photographic Society, Houston, TX - Juror: Elizabeth Avedon
2020 AOP Open Award (4 images), Finalist, Association of Photographers, London, UK – Curators: Anne Manion and Tim Flach
26th Annual Juried Exhibition Show, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA – Juror: Alexa Dilworth
Annual Members' Show, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO - Juror: Ann Jastrab
The Road, South x Southeast Gallery, Molena, GA - Juror: Rich McCabe
The Contemporary Landscape, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC - Juror: Adam Monohon
New Photography II (2 images), Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD - Juror: Philip Brookman
2020 Members’ Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA - Jurors: Ann Jastrab and Laura Sackett
Open Theme, Praxis Photo Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN - Juror: Ann Jastrab
The Best Medicine (2 images), Dickerman Prints Gallery, San Francisco, CA - Jurors: Ann Jastrab, Stuart Kogod, Seth Dickerman
The Road, JKC Gallery, Trenton, NJ - Jurors: Dana Stirling and Yoav Friedlander
The Ones That Got Away, The Curated Fridge, Boston, MA and Aline Smithson's Kitchen in L.A. - Curated by Yorgos Efthymiadis2019Urban Landscape, Texas Photographic Society, Houston, TX - Juror: Jamie Stillings
San Francisco Bay International Photography Exhibition, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA - Jurors: Elizabeth Avedon, Julie Grahame, Ann Jastrab, David Garnick
Annual Members' Show, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO - Juror: Kat Kiernan
25th Juried Exhibition Slide Show, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA - Jurors: Julie Grahame and Paula Tognarelli
TPS 28: The International Competition, Texas Photographic Society, Houston, TX - Juror: Arthur Meyerson
11th Anniversary Issue, May 2019, Issue 122, Faction Online Magazine - Editors: David Bram and Bree Lamb
PCNW 22ND Juried Photography Exhibition, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA - Jurors: Conor Risch and Lara Behnert20182018 International Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA - Juror: Eve Schillo
Autumn 2018 Show, The Curated Fridge, Boston, MA - Juror: Kat Kiernan
The Portfolios (4 images), LightBox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, OR - Jurors: Michael and Chelsea Granger
Lies (4 images), Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO - Juror: Richard McCabe
Landscapes 2018 (2 images), Honorable Mention, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO - Juror: Allie Haeusslein
13th Annual National Photography Competition (2 images), fotofoto gallery, Huntington, NY - Juror: Ann Jastrab20172017 International Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA - Juror: Philip Brookman
Americana (2 images), Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO - Juror: Darren Ching
New Directions 2017 (2 images), Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY - Juror: Ruth Erickson
2017 California Open Exhibition, TAG Gallery, Los Angeles, CA - Juror: Scott Canty
2017 CPA Members' Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA - Jurors: Elizabeth Corden and Jan Potts2014The Perimeter of the World, Contemporary Travel Photography, RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco, CA - Jurors: Ann Jastrab and Judy Walgren
One Shot: One World, IPA (Int'l Photography Awards), Honorable Mention - Jurors: Amy Wolff, Damien Poulain, Robert Berman
Mainland, The Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, VA - Juror: Stella Kramer
2014 Juried Exhibition (2 images), Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA - Juror: Diana L. Daniels
Five Elements, Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction, VT - Juror: Eddie Soloway
New Color Photography, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR - Juror: Kelli PenningtonAwardsFinalist - 2020 AOP Open Award, Association of Photographers, London, UK – Curators: Anne Manion and Tim Flach
Honorable Mention - 15th Pollux Awards Non-Professional Open Series, London/Barcelona
Honorable Mention - Landscapes 2018, The Center for Fine Art Photography - Juror: Allie Haeusslein
Finalist - Photolucida Critical Mass 2017
Jurored Participant - CENTER Review Santa Fe 2017 and 2020/21MonographFauxliage, Daylight Books, Spring 2021Publications and Press
2020Modern Photographer Listing, All-About-Photo.com, by Sandrine Hermand-Grisel2017Photo of the Day, Don't Take Pictures Blog, by Kat Kiernan
Annette LeMay Burke: Fauxliage, All-About-Photo.com, by Ann Jastrab
Career Highlights
In 2017, she was a finalist for Photolucida’s Critical Mass. In 2020 she was a finalist for the UK’s AOP Open Award, and received an honorable mention for the 15th Pollux Award Open Series. Her first monograph, Fauxliage – Disguised Cell Phone Towers of the American West, will be published in the spring of 2021 by Daylight Books.
IMAGES FOR SALE
My Playhouse - 13”H x 17”W
Archival Pigment Print
$450 unframed
Limited edition of 12
Signed on verso
Dining Room Dinghy - 13”H x 17”W
Archival Pigment Print
$450 unframed
Limited edition of 12
Signed on verso
Christening Day - 13”H x 17”W
Archival Pigment Print
$450 unframed
Limited edition of 12
Signed on verso
Contact: Annette LeMay Burke
annette@atelierlemay.com
www.atelierlemay.com
http://www.instagram.com/atelierlemay/
CHRISTENING DAY by Annette Burke
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DINING ROOM DINGHY by Annette Burke
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MAGIC SHELL by Anne Berry
SECOND PLACE & BEST SERIES
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SECOND PLACE & BEST SERIES
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Curator Laurie Freitag says, "Magic Shell' says so much about a child's inner world and how lost they get in their worlds. The abandon, the joy, the connection to nature, it's all something so temporary as the innocence falls away to maturity, but it's that short-lived time that makes it so remarkable."
Anne Berry says of her series, 'The Garden of Endearment', Child’s play, like life itself, is serious.
Through play children address both their fears and their dreams. Animals, places, and objects are metaphors to help them make sense of the world as they act out their fantasies. The natural world possesses an invisible but powerful energy.
Humans can communicate with animals. Children don’t doubt these facts. They still live in The Garden, close to nature, close to what’s essential. As adults, we know that they can’t stay. One gray night it will happen: a veil will fall, a gate will close, and the marvelous will cease to exist. What if we could help children keep their sense of awe and respect for nature and foster a belief in the value of things not seen but felt? What children learn to appreciate and love is what they will protect in the future."
Anne Berry is an artist from Atlanta, Georgia. Her photographs investigate the animal world, the domain of childhood, and the terrain of the Southern wilderness. She also explores themes and metaphors from literature.
In 2013 and 2014 Critical Mass included her work in their Top 50 Portfolios. Anne has had solo exhibitions at the Centre for Visual and Performing Arts in Newnan, GA, The Lamar Dodd Art Center in LAGrange, GA and The Rankin Arts Center in Columbus, GA.
She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including The Fox Talbot Museum in Lacock, England, SCAN Tarragona in Spain, The Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, and the Ogden Museum of Southern Arts in New Orleans. Books include Through Glass (North Light Press, 2014) and Primates (21st Editions, 2017), and Behind Glass, expected in June 2021.
Anne’s work is featured in National Geographic Proof, Feature Shoot, Hufffington Post and Lens Culture, among others. Her work is in many permanent collections, including the National Gallery of Art. Anne lives in Newnan, GA and is represented by the Catherine Couturier Gallery in Houston.
Education M.A., University of Georgia / B.A., Sweet Briar College
Recognition
Critical Mass Finalist, 2020
All About Photo 2020 Awards
Juror, Childhood Exhibition, PhotoPlace
Gallery, Middlebury, VT, 2019
Critical Mass Finalist, 2019
Solo Exhibitions
2021 All About Photo Solo Exhibition, 1/2021
Publications
Land of the Yaupon Holly, Edge of Humanity Magazine, upcoming
L’Istinto Primordiale (The Primordial Instinct), 7/Corriere Della Sera (Milan), upcoming
Through the Looking Glass: Europe’s Captive Primates, The Guardian, 1/13/2021
Analog Forever Magazine, Top 10 Selection, 12/19
All About Photo Magazine, #9/Shadows, 12/19
Shots Magazine, #145, 2019
Photographic Alphabet: B is for Anne Berry, Museé Magazine, 7/16/19
Expected 5/2021: Behind Glass, Anne Berry. The hard cover smyth sewn book is 104 pages/49 duotone plates, crafted with exquisite archival materials. For information on pre-ordering the book at a pre-sale discounted price please contact me at anne.ellis.berry@gmail.com.
www.anneberrystudio.com
https://www.instagram.com/a_n_n_e_b_e_r_r_y/
Anne Berry says of her series, 'The Garden of Endearment', Child’s play, like life itself, is serious.
Through play children address both their fears and their dreams. Animals, places, and objects are metaphors to help them make sense of the world as they act out their fantasies. The natural world possesses an invisible but powerful energy.
Humans can communicate with animals. Children don’t doubt these facts. They still live in The Garden, close to nature, close to what’s essential. As adults, we know that they can’t stay. One gray night it will happen: a veil will fall, a gate will close, and the marvelous will cease to exist. What if we could help children keep their sense of awe and respect for nature and foster a belief in the value of things not seen but felt? What children learn to appreciate and love is what they will protect in the future."
Anne Berry is an artist from Atlanta, Georgia. Her photographs investigate the animal world, the domain of childhood, and the terrain of the Southern wilderness. She also explores themes and metaphors from literature.
In 2013 and 2014 Critical Mass included her work in their Top 50 Portfolios. Anne has had solo exhibitions at the Centre for Visual and Performing Arts in Newnan, GA, The Lamar Dodd Art Center in LAGrange, GA and The Rankin Arts Center in Columbus, GA.
She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including The Fox Talbot Museum in Lacock, England, SCAN Tarragona in Spain, The Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, and the Ogden Museum of Southern Arts in New Orleans. Books include Through Glass (North Light Press, 2014) and Primates (21st Editions, 2017), and Behind Glass, expected in June 2021.
Anne’s work is featured in National Geographic Proof, Feature Shoot, Hufffington Post and Lens Culture, among others. Her work is in many permanent collections, including the National Gallery of Art. Anne lives in Newnan, GA and is represented by the Catherine Couturier Gallery in Houston.
Education M.A., University of Georgia / B.A., Sweet Briar College
Recognition
Critical Mass Finalist, 2020
All About Photo 2020 Awards
Juror, Childhood Exhibition, PhotoPlace
Gallery, Middlebury, VT, 2019
Critical Mass Finalist, 2019
Solo Exhibitions
2021 All About Photo Solo Exhibition, 1/2021
Publications
Land of the Yaupon Holly, Edge of Humanity Magazine, upcoming
L’Istinto Primordiale (The Primordial Instinct), 7/Corriere Della Sera (Milan), upcoming
Through the Looking Glass: Europe’s Captive Primates, The Guardian, 1/13/2021
Analog Forever Magazine, Top 10 Selection, 12/19
All About Photo Magazine, #9/Shadows, 12/19
Shots Magazine, #145, 2019
Photographic Alphabet: B is for Anne Berry, Museé Magazine, 7/16/19
Expected 5/2021: Behind Glass, Anne Berry. The hard cover smyth sewn book is 104 pages/49 duotone plates, crafted with exquisite archival materials. For information on pre-ordering the book at a pre-sale discounted price please contact me at anne.ellis.berry@gmail.com.
www.anneberrystudio.com
https://www.instagram.com/a_n_n_e_b_e_r_r_y/
I HAVE HAD A DREAM by Anne Berry
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RAM by Anne Berry
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BEHAVIORAL ISSUES by Annie Claflin
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Annie Claflin says, "Before relocating from Boston to San Diego, I worried that my lifelong depression and anxiety would follow my husband, my four year old and me to a new city and thrive.
Two months after our arrival in Southern California, Covid-19 struck the world with brutal force. My displacement, mixed with a pandemic, fueled a Major Depressive episode. It was unlike any other I had experienced.
Doubts consumed me. I obsessively lifted my camera to my eyes in response to and as a means to cope with uncertainty. Through this soothing ritual, I narrowly survived 2020.
I feared for my son’s well-being and questioned my capabilities as a mother. I validated perceived maternal failures with every photograph made. I projected my melancholy mood onto my son - was he depressed too? These photographs spawn from a mind full of delusions about his reality. They provide an alternative narrative to my son’s life."
Bio:
Annie Claflin is a photography-based visual artist living in San Diego, California. Born into a family of portrait and landscape photographers in Massachusetts, Annie discovered her own narrative documenting her family and their environment.
Her artwork explores themes of identity, family and home, often investigating intersections of the three. Using straight photography, alternative processes and moving images, Annie crafts artwork, often coupled with text, that invites the viewer into her imagination.
Annie is honored to have her work published online and in exhibition catalogs nationally. Most recently, her work was included in Primary Source at The Griffin Museum of Photography. She received a Certificate from The New England School of Photography, a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Massachusetts College of Art + Design and a Master of Science in Arts Administration from Boston University.
Career Highlights
RECENT EXHIBITION RECORD
2020 Primary Source, Griffin Museum of Photography at Lafayette Center Passageway, Boston, MA
2019 Family Values, The Curated Fridge, Somerville, MA, Jurors: Ashly Stohl and David Carol
IMAGES FOR SALE:
Behavioral Issues, 2020
9" H x 6" W
Archival Inkjet Print
$150 unframed
Limited edition of 10
Signed on back
Please, 2020
6" H x 9" W
Archival Inkjet Print
NFS
Limited edition of 10
Signed on back
Take A Load Off, 2020
9" H x 6" W
Archival Inkjet Print
$150 unframed
Limited edition of 10
Signed on back
Contact: Annie Claflin
annie@annieclaflin.com
annieclaflin.com
https://www.instagram.com/annieclaflin/
Two months after our arrival in Southern California, Covid-19 struck the world with brutal force. My displacement, mixed with a pandemic, fueled a Major Depressive episode. It was unlike any other I had experienced.
Doubts consumed me. I obsessively lifted my camera to my eyes in response to and as a means to cope with uncertainty. Through this soothing ritual, I narrowly survived 2020.
I feared for my son’s well-being and questioned my capabilities as a mother. I validated perceived maternal failures with every photograph made. I projected my melancholy mood onto my son - was he depressed too? These photographs spawn from a mind full of delusions about his reality. They provide an alternative narrative to my son’s life."
Bio:
Annie Claflin is a photography-based visual artist living in San Diego, California. Born into a family of portrait and landscape photographers in Massachusetts, Annie discovered her own narrative documenting her family and their environment.
Her artwork explores themes of identity, family and home, often investigating intersections of the three. Using straight photography, alternative processes and moving images, Annie crafts artwork, often coupled with text, that invites the viewer into her imagination.
Annie is honored to have her work published online and in exhibition catalogs nationally. Most recently, her work was included in Primary Source at The Griffin Museum of Photography. She received a Certificate from The New England School of Photography, a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Massachusetts College of Art + Design and a Master of Science in Arts Administration from Boston University.
Career Highlights
RECENT EXHIBITION RECORD
2020 Primary Source, Griffin Museum of Photography at Lafayette Center Passageway, Boston, MA
2019 Family Values, The Curated Fridge, Somerville, MA, Jurors: Ashly Stohl and David Carol
IMAGES FOR SALE:
Behavioral Issues, 2020
9" H x 6" W
Archival Inkjet Print
$150 unframed
Limited edition of 10
Signed on back
Please, 2020
6" H x 9" W
Archival Inkjet Print
NFS
Limited edition of 10
Signed on back
Take A Load Off, 2020
9" H x 6" W
Archival Inkjet Print
$150 unframed
Limited edition of 10
Signed on back
Contact: Annie Claflin
annie@annieclaflin.com
annieclaflin.com
https://www.instagram.com/annieclaflin/
PLEASE by Annie Claflin
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TAKE A LOAD OFF by Annie Claflin
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BLUE STORIES FROM THE KITCHEN TABLE PORTFOLIO by Astrid Reischwitz
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Astrid Reischwitz says, "I created “Stories from the Kitchen Table” to preserve and honor a fading way of life in my childhood home, a continent away.
Going home means travelling the long distance back to a small village in northern Germany and my family’s old farmhouse, a house that seems untouched by modern time, and, one day soon, will be left behind.
The hardship of farming and events during World War II cast a prickly shadow over family members that can still be felt today. Telling these tales gives me a chance for reflection and transformation. Memories and emotions intertwine into new stories.
When I visit, I absorb the ingredients of home: the flavors of dishes that are so familiar, and the same furnishings, photographs, knick-knacks, and worn kitchen tools that have been there since well before I was born. Most of all, the very essence of home for me is gathering around the kitchen table to sit down for a meal with family and friends and share stories old and new.
Connecting past and present, my composites include old family photos combined with images reflecting how I perceive my heritage today. I use flowers and fragmented images of fabric: these dish towels, tablecloths, napkins, and decorative wall hangings (dating back to 1799) were passed down from generation to generation - a salute to the women who lived and worked under the roof of this old house. Pieces of the traditional costume, buried for decades in an old farmer’s trunk, add a layer of local history to my images.
My grandmother was a great influence. She was the overseer and guide of a local farmhouse museum across the street; she was the keeper of local history and the keeper of family stories and tales that often were shared among women in “spin clubs.” In past times, “spin clubs” met with the purpose of spinning wool, doing needlework, and stitching tablecloths and wall hangings. These close-knit groups of women stayed together until death. Today, these clubs barely exist. “Stories from the Kitchen Table” transforms this tradition of storytelling into a visual journey."
BIO
Astrid Reischwitz is a lens-based artist whose work explores personal and collective memory influenced by her upbringing in Germany.
Using keepsakes from family life, old photographs, and storytelling strategies, she builds a visual world of memory, identity, place, and home.
She has exhibited at national and international museums and galleries and received multiple awards, including the 2020 Griffin Award at the Griffin Museum of Photography and the Multimedia Award at the 2020 San Francisco Bay International Photo Awards. She is a Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50 photographer (2020, 2019, 2016). Astrid is a graduate of the Technical University Braunschweig, Germany, with a PhD in Chemistry.
After moving to the US, she fell in love with photography and began her journey to explore life through creating art. She is represented by Gallery Kayafas in Boston, Massachusetts.
Images for sale-
Please contact Gallery Kayafas:
arlette@gallerykayafas.com
www.reischwitzphotography.com
https://www.instagram.com/astridreischwitz/
Going home means travelling the long distance back to a small village in northern Germany and my family’s old farmhouse, a house that seems untouched by modern time, and, one day soon, will be left behind.
The hardship of farming and events during World War II cast a prickly shadow over family members that can still be felt today. Telling these tales gives me a chance for reflection and transformation. Memories and emotions intertwine into new stories.
When I visit, I absorb the ingredients of home: the flavors of dishes that are so familiar, and the same furnishings, photographs, knick-knacks, and worn kitchen tools that have been there since well before I was born. Most of all, the very essence of home for me is gathering around the kitchen table to sit down for a meal with family and friends and share stories old and new.
Connecting past and present, my composites include old family photos combined with images reflecting how I perceive my heritage today. I use flowers and fragmented images of fabric: these dish towels, tablecloths, napkins, and decorative wall hangings (dating back to 1799) were passed down from generation to generation - a salute to the women who lived and worked under the roof of this old house. Pieces of the traditional costume, buried for decades in an old farmer’s trunk, add a layer of local history to my images.
My grandmother was a great influence. She was the overseer and guide of a local farmhouse museum across the street; she was the keeper of local history and the keeper of family stories and tales that often were shared among women in “spin clubs.” In past times, “spin clubs” met with the purpose of spinning wool, doing needlework, and stitching tablecloths and wall hangings. These close-knit groups of women stayed together until death. Today, these clubs barely exist. “Stories from the Kitchen Table” transforms this tradition of storytelling into a visual journey."
BIO
Astrid Reischwitz is a lens-based artist whose work explores personal and collective memory influenced by her upbringing in Germany.
Using keepsakes from family life, old photographs, and storytelling strategies, she builds a visual world of memory, identity, place, and home.
She has exhibited at national and international museums and galleries and received multiple awards, including the 2020 Griffin Award at the Griffin Museum of Photography and the Multimedia Award at the 2020 San Francisco Bay International Photo Awards. She is a Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50 photographer (2020, 2019, 2016). Astrid is a graduate of the Technical University Braunschweig, Germany, with a PhD in Chemistry.
After moving to the US, she fell in love with photography and began her journey to explore life through creating art. She is represented by Gallery Kayafas in Boston, Massachusetts.
Images for sale-
Please contact Gallery Kayafas:
arlette@gallerykayafas.com
www.reischwitzphotography.com
https://www.instagram.com/astridreischwitz/
DANDELION SCULPTURES STORIES FROM THE KITCHEN TABLE by Astrid Reischwitz
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EXPECTATIONS STORIES FROM THE KITCHEN TABLE PORTFOLIO by Astrid Reischwitz
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BROKEN RECORD by Beth Galton
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Beth Galton says of her series, 'Memory of Absence', "So much of who we are is passed from generation to generation—our genes, our behaviors—molded by our parents and grandparents.
My mother’s relationship with her
mother was fraught with difficulties and these same dynamics were passed onto me.
I’ve spent many years contending with these issues by first becoming overly involved in my mother’s life and then ultimately removing myself. In 2017, my mother and father—who had not lived together for 50 years by that time—died within three days of each other.
After my sister and I inherited my mother’s home we were startled to find the extent to which she had been hoarding. We discovered her journals, copious letters
written to family members and never sent, and everyday objects and photographs
depicting many family scenes that I have no memory of. A profound sadness combined with these surprising discoveries led to my creating this body of work exploring feelings, memories and even buried memories – all brought to the surface through these revelations.
In this series, Memory of Absence, I combined botanicals and natural materials together with the everyday objects and family photographs in order to convey a sense of memory and loss.
The organic and volatile botanicals serve as a reminder of the ever-changing
nature of memory and emotions—an unstable and profoundly unreliable process, as fragile as scraps of embroidery as complicated and garbled as tangles of magnetic tape. Text plays a key role as well, her words intertwined with mine.
My creative process begins with composing and photographing a still life of the
botanicals together with the objects that I have collected and saved from my mother’s
home. I then print out the image and create yet another still life by layering more objects with the print and then re-photograph this composition. There by giving a further sense of the complex and layered emotions found within family dynamics"
.
BIO:
Beth Galton is a photo-based artist, with an educational background in the natural
sciences and 30 years of experience as a professional photographer in the editorial and commercial world. Her personal practice brings these elements of her history together, using them to explore her world through the nature of time and organic forms. Galton collects objects, items from her past and botanicals which she often manipulates and dries to constructs still lifes.
In her photographs, these assemblages and portraits connect the viewer to the ecological cycles of the natural world, including their own aging and mortality. Galton often uses natural light to capture these compositions by using a
large format camera and digital back.
Galton’s artwork has been exhibited in shows throughout the U.S. and Europe and she was previously represented by Marlborough Gallery in NYC. Most recently her work was seen at Montpellier Contemporian, Montpellier France, Wave Hill, The Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado, the Center for Photographic Art in California, Beth Urdang Gallery in Boston and was part of ‘The Fence’, a traveling outdoor exhibition shown in seven cities across the country.
Galton has received many awards, most recently the Tokyo International Foto Awards, 12th Julia Margaret Camera awards, IPA Awards, Graphis, Communication Arts and the
PDN Taste Awards. Galton lives and works in New York City.
CV:
EDUCATION
Hiram College, BS - Studio Art
SHOWS
2020 Center for Photographic Art - Members Group Show, Carmel,CA
2020 Center for Photographic Art-Intl. Group Show, Carmel, CA
2020 Griffen Museum-Members Group Show, Winchester, MA
2020 Praxis Gallery, Open Theme, Group Show-Minneapolis,MN
2020 Praxis Gallery, Still Life, Group Show-Minneapolis,MN
2020 Houston Center for Photography-Togethering,Houston,TX
2020 SE Center for Photography, Group Show-Greenville, SC
2020 SE Center for Photography, Forsaken, Greenville, SC
2020 Phillips Mill, Open call, Group Show- New Hope, PA
2020 Hauser & Wirth, Homegrown Show, NYC, NY
2020 Center for Fine Art Photography-Female in Focus, Fort Collin,CO
2020 LA Photocurator- Life’s Work
2020 Photo Eye Collective-Life during Covid
2020 Center for Photography Woodstock-Open, Woodstock, NY
2019 Center for Fine Art Photography- Self and Family, Fort Collin,CO
2019 MoCo - Montpellier Contemporian- La Panacee, Cook book19” Montpellier, France
2018 Wave Hill, Les Botaniques Vivants, Riverdale, NY
2018 The Center for Fine Art Photography -Illuminate Juried Exhibition,
Fort Collins, CO
2017 Center for Photographic Art - Intl. Group Show, Carmel, CA
2017 The Fence 2017-Juried Group Show
2017 Food: Paintings & Photography -
Group Show, Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston,MA
https://bethgalton.com
https://www.bethgaltonfineart.com
https://www.instagram.com/bethgaltonstudio/
My mother’s relationship with her
mother was fraught with difficulties and these same dynamics were passed onto me.
I’ve spent many years contending with these issues by first becoming overly involved in my mother’s life and then ultimately removing myself. In 2017, my mother and father—who had not lived together for 50 years by that time—died within three days of each other.
After my sister and I inherited my mother’s home we were startled to find the extent to which she had been hoarding. We discovered her journals, copious letters
written to family members and never sent, and everyday objects and photographs
depicting many family scenes that I have no memory of. A profound sadness combined with these surprising discoveries led to my creating this body of work exploring feelings, memories and even buried memories – all brought to the surface through these revelations.
In this series, Memory of Absence, I combined botanicals and natural materials together with the everyday objects and family photographs in order to convey a sense of memory and loss.
The organic and volatile botanicals serve as a reminder of the ever-changing
nature of memory and emotions—an unstable and profoundly unreliable process, as fragile as scraps of embroidery as complicated and garbled as tangles of magnetic tape. Text plays a key role as well, her words intertwined with mine.
My creative process begins with composing and photographing a still life of the
botanicals together with the objects that I have collected and saved from my mother’s
home. I then print out the image and create yet another still life by layering more objects with the print and then re-photograph this composition. There by giving a further sense of the complex and layered emotions found within family dynamics"
.
BIO:
Beth Galton is a photo-based artist, with an educational background in the natural
sciences and 30 years of experience as a professional photographer in the editorial and commercial world. Her personal practice brings these elements of her history together, using them to explore her world through the nature of time and organic forms. Galton collects objects, items from her past and botanicals which she often manipulates and dries to constructs still lifes.
In her photographs, these assemblages and portraits connect the viewer to the ecological cycles of the natural world, including their own aging and mortality. Galton often uses natural light to capture these compositions by using a
large format camera and digital back.
Galton’s artwork has been exhibited in shows throughout the U.S. and Europe and she was previously represented by Marlborough Gallery in NYC. Most recently her work was seen at Montpellier Contemporian, Montpellier France, Wave Hill, The Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado, the Center for Photographic Art in California, Beth Urdang Gallery in Boston and was part of ‘The Fence’, a traveling outdoor exhibition shown in seven cities across the country.
Galton has received many awards, most recently the Tokyo International Foto Awards, 12th Julia Margaret Camera awards, IPA Awards, Graphis, Communication Arts and the
PDN Taste Awards. Galton lives and works in New York City.
CV:
EDUCATION
Hiram College, BS - Studio Art
SHOWS
2020 Center for Photographic Art - Members Group Show, Carmel,CA
2020 Center for Photographic Art-Intl. Group Show, Carmel, CA
2020 Griffen Museum-Members Group Show, Winchester, MA
2020 Praxis Gallery, Open Theme, Group Show-Minneapolis,MN
2020 Praxis Gallery, Still Life, Group Show-Minneapolis,MN
2020 Houston Center for Photography-Togethering,Houston,TX
2020 SE Center for Photography, Group Show-Greenville, SC
2020 SE Center for Photography, Forsaken, Greenville, SC
2020 Phillips Mill, Open call, Group Show- New Hope, PA
2020 Hauser & Wirth, Homegrown Show, NYC, NY
2020 Center for Fine Art Photography-Female in Focus, Fort Collin,CO
2020 LA Photocurator- Life’s Work
2020 Photo Eye Collective-Life during Covid
2020 Center for Photography Woodstock-Open, Woodstock, NY
2019 Center for Fine Art Photography- Self and Family, Fort Collin,CO
2019 MoCo - Montpellier Contemporian- La Panacee, Cook book19” Montpellier, France
2018 Wave Hill, Les Botaniques Vivants, Riverdale, NY
2018 The Center for Fine Art Photography -Illuminate Juried Exhibition,
Fort Collins, CO
2017 Center for Photographic Art - Intl. Group Show, Carmel, CA
2017 The Fence 2017-Juried Group Show
2017 Food: Paintings & Photography -
Group Show, Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston,MA
https://bethgalton.com
https://www.bethgaltonfineart.com
https://www.instagram.com/bethgaltonstudio/
I SEE MYSELF REFLECTED by Beth Galton
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TWO GIRLS by Beth Galton
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BEN PLAYING PIANO by Carole Glauber
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Carole Glauber says, "Our lives are all about time and how we use it.
Personal History examines the lives of my two sons, Ben and Sam—a span covering 30 years. I used a 1950’s Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera for this work, which I tried by chance, and discovered I related to the soft colors , the imperfections, and the transcendent quality of the image.
While making this body of work, I experienced countless failures with rolls of film that lacked adequate light, or not enough content. I fell in love with the square negative that replaced the rectangle I had known.
My sons’ lives, their messages, their joy, their fraction-of-a-second moments are all contained in a small square dependent on the variables and juncture of film and light. I also realized that my photographs were not about motherhood, with its trials and tribulations, celebrations and pleasures.
At centerstage are my sons who we can watch mature from an early age to becoming young men. That in itself is a blessing and linked to the spiritual aspects I feel when I look at and think about this series. Parenting is sacred work, but while we are in the midst of it, that aspect can fly right by. It is also hard to articulate because of the intensity of emotions that suddenly appear at the time of their birth and stay forever.
Ben and Sam’s transformations accompanying their personal and physical growth belong to them and not me. These changes are so subtle each day, but dynamic over time. I also changed, learning with experience and length of days.
Much is in our control, but much is not. The imperfections in the imagery reflect the inevitable flaws in our lives, the soft colors are about love and affection, and the constant square creates equal, steadfast boundaries on all sides, suggesting a stable, uniform quality that we all need in our lives."
Carole Glauber is a photographer and photo historian, a combination that influences the images she makes.
Her work has been included in over 80 group and solo exhibitions worldwide, and she has received numerous awards for her photography and photographic research.
These honors include the PX3 Prix de la Photographie, Paris, a Gold Medal from the Budapest International Foto Awards for her book, Personal History, the International Photography Award, the Julia Margaret Cameron Award, the Tokyo International Foto Award, the Mobile Photography Award, the PHmuseum Mobile Photography Prize,and the Pollux Award for her photographs, as well as the Peter E. Palmquist Historical Photographic Research Fellowship, the Winterthur Museum Fellowship, an Oregon Humanities Research Fellowship, and a National Coalition of Independent Scholars grant for her photographic research.
She has lectured and written about photography, and her essays have been published in the Photo Review, the Oregon Historical Quarterly, the Oregon Encyclopedia Project, Style 1900 Magazine, Artifact Magazine, and The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture. Glauber is the author of Witch of Kodakery: The Photography of Myra Albert Wiggins 1869–1956 (Washington State University Press, 1997).
She appeared on the Oregon Public Broadcasting program, The River They Saw, speaking about early Oregon women photographers. Her latest book, Personal History, published by Daylight Books, is the culmination of photographing her two sons for 30 years with a 1950’s Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera and color film. CV: My CV is 11 pages. Not sure you want it all in this email. My latest event is the release of my book, Personal History by Daylight Books on November 3. See my statement above. It received a Gold Medal from the Budapest International Foto Awards, Book Section and has been highlighted in The Eye of Photography, Art Daily, All About Photo, and FotoNostrum Magazine.
IMAGES FOR SALE:
Ben Playing Piano
Ben With Hula Hoop
Sam at Play
All Prints 9x9 inches
Archival paper
$350 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on Back
Contact: Carole Glauber
cgpdx5@gmail.com
www.caroleglauber.com
https://www.instagram.com/carole_glauber
Personal History examines the lives of my two sons, Ben and Sam—a span covering 30 years. I used a 1950’s Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera for this work, which I tried by chance, and discovered I related to the soft colors , the imperfections, and the transcendent quality of the image.
While making this body of work, I experienced countless failures with rolls of film that lacked adequate light, or not enough content. I fell in love with the square negative that replaced the rectangle I had known.
My sons’ lives, their messages, their joy, their fraction-of-a-second moments are all contained in a small square dependent on the variables and juncture of film and light. I also realized that my photographs were not about motherhood, with its trials and tribulations, celebrations and pleasures.
At centerstage are my sons who we can watch mature from an early age to becoming young men. That in itself is a blessing and linked to the spiritual aspects I feel when I look at and think about this series. Parenting is sacred work, but while we are in the midst of it, that aspect can fly right by. It is also hard to articulate because of the intensity of emotions that suddenly appear at the time of their birth and stay forever.
Ben and Sam’s transformations accompanying their personal and physical growth belong to them and not me. These changes are so subtle each day, but dynamic over time. I also changed, learning with experience and length of days.
Much is in our control, but much is not. The imperfections in the imagery reflect the inevitable flaws in our lives, the soft colors are about love and affection, and the constant square creates equal, steadfast boundaries on all sides, suggesting a stable, uniform quality that we all need in our lives."
Carole Glauber is a photographer and photo historian, a combination that influences the images she makes.
Her work has been included in over 80 group and solo exhibitions worldwide, and she has received numerous awards for her photography and photographic research.
These honors include the PX3 Prix de la Photographie, Paris, a Gold Medal from the Budapest International Foto Awards for her book, Personal History, the International Photography Award, the Julia Margaret Cameron Award, the Tokyo International Foto Award, the Mobile Photography Award, the PHmuseum Mobile Photography Prize,and the Pollux Award for her photographs, as well as the Peter E. Palmquist Historical Photographic Research Fellowship, the Winterthur Museum Fellowship, an Oregon Humanities Research Fellowship, and a National Coalition of Independent Scholars grant for her photographic research.
She has lectured and written about photography, and her essays have been published in the Photo Review, the Oregon Historical Quarterly, the Oregon Encyclopedia Project, Style 1900 Magazine, Artifact Magazine, and The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture. Glauber is the author of Witch of Kodakery: The Photography of Myra Albert Wiggins 1869–1956 (Washington State University Press, 1997).
She appeared on the Oregon Public Broadcasting program, The River They Saw, speaking about early Oregon women photographers. Her latest book, Personal History, published by Daylight Books, is the culmination of photographing her two sons for 30 years with a 1950’s Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera and color film. CV: My CV is 11 pages. Not sure you want it all in this email. My latest event is the release of my book, Personal History by Daylight Books on November 3. See my statement above. It received a Gold Medal from the Budapest International Foto Awards, Book Section and has been highlighted in The Eye of Photography, Art Daily, All About Photo, and FotoNostrum Magazine.
IMAGES FOR SALE:
Ben Playing Piano
Ben With Hula Hoop
Sam at Play
All Prints 9x9 inches
Archival paper
$350 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on Back
Contact: Carole Glauber
cgpdx5@gmail.com
www.caroleglauber.com
https://www.instagram.com/carole_glauber
BEN WITH HULA HOOP by Carole Glauber
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SAM AT PLAY by Carole Glauber
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CHALK by Cathy Wilson Ramin
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Cathy Wilson Ramin says, "‘Tween
2020' was an ‘in-between’ year for most as the Coronavirus caused us to put regular life on hold. 2020 was also the year my daughter turned 12.
I was acutely aware of the profound changes my daughter was experiencing this year, in between childhood and adolescence, navigating a changing body alongside a changing world. In a year of unprecedented disruption, my daughter rode the waves with optimism and an open heart.
She left behind dolls and toys and embraced friendships and a quest for identity that at times burns fiercely and at others shrinks into self-doubt and sadness. My heart clenches with nostalgia for her youth and for the challenges I’m sure are to come as we enter her teenage years, but I have confidence that she will find her way.
I was grateful to be home for much more this year: To be more present for the upheaval my daughter was experiencing and to bear witness to her transformation. This series is my love letter to her."
Cathy Wilson Ramin is a Connecticut based photographer with a love for people and an eye for detail. Having lived in all four corners of the country as well as overseas influenced Cathy to recognize the commonalities that tie humanity together.
This realization led her to de-emphasize the 'exotic' and instead focus on everyday details that are often overlooked in the busy-ness of life. Through her art, she hopes to remind people that we are constantly surrounded by beauty if we can only slow down long enough to appreciate it.
Exhibitions2019- Lines Drawn; SOHO Photo Gallery Solo Exhibition; New York
2019- Salgamundi Club 41st Annual Open Exhibition in Photography, New York
2019- Shoreline Arts Alliance IMAGES; Guilford, CT
2019- Pictures of Parenthood; SOHO Photo Gallery Spotlight Exhibition; New York
2018- Shoreline Arts Alliance IMAGES-First Honors; Guilford, CT
2016- Shoreline Arts AllianceIMAGES; Guilford, CT
www.cathywilsonramin.com
https://www.artsy.net/artist/cathy-wilson-ramin
2020' was an ‘in-between’ year for most as the Coronavirus caused us to put regular life on hold. 2020 was also the year my daughter turned 12.
I was acutely aware of the profound changes my daughter was experiencing this year, in between childhood and adolescence, navigating a changing body alongside a changing world. In a year of unprecedented disruption, my daughter rode the waves with optimism and an open heart.
She left behind dolls and toys and embraced friendships and a quest for identity that at times burns fiercely and at others shrinks into self-doubt and sadness. My heart clenches with nostalgia for her youth and for the challenges I’m sure are to come as we enter her teenage years, but I have confidence that she will find her way.
I was grateful to be home for much more this year: To be more present for the upheaval my daughter was experiencing and to bear witness to her transformation. This series is my love letter to her."
Cathy Wilson Ramin is a Connecticut based photographer with a love for people and an eye for detail. Having lived in all four corners of the country as well as overseas influenced Cathy to recognize the commonalities that tie humanity together.
This realization led her to de-emphasize the 'exotic' and instead focus on everyday details that are often overlooked in the busy-ness of life. Through her art, she hopes to remind people that we are constantly surrounded by beauty if we can only slow down long enough to appreciate it.
Exhibitions2019- Lines Drawn; SOHO Photo Gallery Solo Exhibition; New York
2019- Salgamundi Club 41st Annual Open Exhibition in Photography, New York
2019- Shoreline Arts Alliance IMAGES; Guilford, CT
2019- Pictures of Parenthood; SOHO Photo Gallery Spotlight Exhibition; New York
2018- Shoreline Arts Alliance IMAGES-First Honors; Guilford, CT
2016- Shoreline Arts AllianceIMAGES; Guilford, CT
www.cathywilsonramin.com
https://www.artsy.net/artist/cathy-wilson-ramin
COSPLAY by Cathy Wilson Ramin
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SKATEPARK by Cathy Wilson Ramin
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ALEJANDRO DRIVE by Charlotta Hauksdottir
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Charlotta Maria Hauksdottir says, "A sense of home is about memories, intimacy, and the attachment one has with certain places.
In the series “A Matter of Some Moments” I am photographing families at home. Several photographs, taken over time, are composed and faded into each other. In the resulting image, the space remains mostly the same but the families’ actions and interactions are captured in different positions, each presenting an ephemeral, ghostlike appearance.
Highlighting the temporality of being, the photographs become a testament to the seemingly mundane happenings that often comprise meaningful memories. As Gaston Bachelard states in his book The Poetics of Space, “the house has both unity and complexity, it is made out of memories and experiences, its different parts arouse different sensations and yet it brings up a unitary, intimate experience of living.”
Evoking feelings of both nostalgia and loss, the stillness in the images briefly suspends time, creating room for thought about one’s own experiences, and the familiar landscapes of our memories and places."
Bio
Charlotta María Hauksdóttir is an Icelandic artist based in California, working primarily in photography. Residing in the USA for over 18 years, she still draws inspiration from her home country Iceland. Her work centers around the unique connection one has to places and moments in time, and how memories embody and elevate those connections.
Charlotta graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute with an MFA in Photography, in 2004, and received a BA in Photography from the Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome, Italy, in 1997.
Her work has been exhibited around the world, with solo exhibitions in the USA, Russia, and Iceland, most recently at the Reykjavik Museum of Photography. Her award winning photographs have been published in several magazines and books and her work is part of numerous public and private collections all over the world.
Part of Resume
Recent Solo Exhibitions
2019 A Sense of Place - Imprints of Iceland, Mengi, Reykjavik, Iceland
2017 A Matter of Some Moments, Ramskram Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
2016 Outlook, Reykjavík Museum of Photography, Reykjavik, Iceland
2014 Moments, VI International Festival of Photography PhotoVisa, Krasnodar, Russia
Recent Group Exhibitions
2020
2020 San Francisco Bay International Photography Exhibition, Berkeley, CA, USA
2020 International Juried Competition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, USA
Water, Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum, Decorah, Idaho, USA
Respite and Renewal: Inside and Out, Online Exclusive, Susan Eley Fine Art, NYC, USA
Distinction, 23rd Juried Photography Exhibition, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, USA
2019
2019 San Francisco Bay International Photography Exhibition, Berkeley, CA, USA
39th Annual Connect and Collect, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA, USA
2019 Members Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, USA
ARTBOX.PROJECT ZÜRICH 1.0, Swiss Art Expo, Zurich, Switzerland
ISO 2019 - Ljósmyndasýning FÍSL, Korpúlfstaðir, Reykjavík, Iceland
Nordic Light, Think Round Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA
Something Blue, Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland, CA, USA
2018
Memory and Perception, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Marin, CA, USA
2018 International Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, USA, 3rd place
38th Annual Connect and Collect, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA, USA
Bay Area Currents, Smith Andersen North Gallery, San Anselmo, CA, USA
Landscapes 2018 Exhibition, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, USA
2018 National Best Contemporary Photography, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN, USA
The Fence 2018, Brooklyn, NY, Denver, CO, Santa Fe, NM, Boston, MA, Atlanta, GA, Durham, NC, Sarasota, FL, Calgary Canada
Recent Awards
2021
Lensculture Art Photography Awards, Jurors' Pick
2020
International Photography Awards, Honorable mention
15th Pollux Awards, Honorable mention
2020 San Francisco Bay International Photo Awards, 3rd place
Distinction, 23rd Juried Photography Exhibition, Photographic Center Northwest, Honorable mention
Tokyo International Photography Competition - 7th Edition, winner
2019
Tokyo International Foto Awards, Honorable mention
2019 San Francisco Bay International Photography Exhibition, Gold award winner
2018
ND Awards, Honorable mention
International Photography Awards, Honorable mention
Photolucida Critical Mass, Top 50
London International Creative Competition, Honorable mention
2018 International Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, 3rd place
2017 Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards 2017, Finalist
The Art of Living Photography Show, ACCI Gallery, Gallery Award Winner
IMAGES FOR SALE
Photographs submitted
Piers Court, 23"H x 33"W
archival inkjet print
$1000
Limited edition of 9
Hamilton Avenue, 23"H x 33"W
archival inkjet print
$1000
Limited edition of 9
Alejandro Drive, 23"H x 33"W
archival inkjet print
$1000
Limited edition of 9
Contact:
www.charlottamh.com
https://www.instagram.com/charlottamh/?hl=en
In the series “A Matter of Some Moments” I am photographing families at home. Several photographs, taken over time, are composed and faded into each other. In the resulting image, the space remains mostly the same but the families’ actions and interactions are captured in different positions, each presenting an ephemeral, ghostlike appearance.
Highlighting the temporality of being, the photographs become a testament to the seemingly mundane happenings that often comprise meaningful memories. As Gaston Bachelard states in his book The Poetics of Space, “the house has both unity and complexity, it is made out of memories and experiences, its different parts arouse different sensations and yet it brings up a unitary, intimate experience of living.”
Evoking feelings of both nostalgia and loss, the stillness in the images briefly suspends time, creating room for thought about one’s own experiences, and the familiar landscapes of our memories and places."
Bio
Charlotta María Hauksdóttir is an Icelandic artist based in California, working primarily in photography. Residing in the USA for over 18 years, she still draws inspiration from her home country Iceland. Her work centers around the unique connection one has to places and moments in time, and how memories embody and elevate those connections.
Charlotta graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute with an MFA in Photography, in 2004, and received a BA in Photography from the Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome, Italy, in 1997.
Her work has been exhibited around the world, with solo exhibitions in the USA, Russia, and Iceland, most recently at the Reykjavik Museum of Photography. Her award winning photographs have been published in several magazines and books and her work is part of numerous public and private collections all over the world.
Part of Resume
Recent Solo Exhibitions
2019 A Sense of Place - Imprints of Iceland, Mengi, Reykjavik, Iceland
2017 A Matter of Some Moments, Ramskram Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
2016 Outlook, Reykjavík Museum of Photography, Reykjavik, Iceland
2014 Moments, VI International Festival of Photography PhotoVisa, Krasnodar, Russia
Recent Group Exhibitions
2020
2020 San Francisco Bay International Photography Exhibition, Berkeley, CA, USA
2020 International Juried Competition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, USA
Water, Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum, Decorah, Idaho, USA
Respite and Renewal: Inside and Out, Online Exclusive, Susan Eley Fine Art, NYC, USA
Distinction, 23rd Juried Photography Exhibition, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, USA
2019
2019 San Francisco Bay International Photography Exhibition, Berkeley, CA, USA
39th Annual Connect and Collect, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA, USA
2019 Members Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, USA
ARTBOX.PROJECT ZÜRICH 1.0, Swiss Art Expo, Zurich, Switzerland
ISO 2019 - Ljósmyndasýning FÍSL, Korpúlfstaðir, Reykjavík, Iceland
Nordic Light, Think Round Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA
Something Blue, Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland, CA, USA
2018
Memory and Perception, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Marin, CA, USA
2018 International Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, USA, 3rd place
38th Annual Connect and Collect, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA, USA
Bay Area Currents, Smith Andersen North Gallery, San Anselmo, CA, USA
Landscapes 2018 Exhibition, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, USA
2018 National Best Contemporary Photography, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN, USA
The Fence 2018, Brooklyn, NY, Denver, CO, Santa Fe, NM, Boston, MA, Atlanta, GA, Durham, NC, Sarasota, FL, Calgary Canada
Recent Awards
2021
Lensculture Art Photography Awards, Jurors' Pick
2020
International Photography Awards, Honorable mention
15th Pollux Awards, Honorable mention
2020 San Francisco Bay International Photo Awards, 3rd place
Distinction, 23rd Juried Photography Exhibition, Photographic Center Northwest, Honorable mention
Tokyo International Photography Competition - 7th Edition, winner
2019
Tokyo International Foto Awards, Honorable mention
2019 San Francisco Bay International Photography Exhibition, Gold award winner
2018
ND Awards, Honorable mention
International Photography Awards, Honorable mention
Photolucida Critical Mass, Top 50
London International Creative Competition, Honorable mention
2018 International Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, 3rd place
2017 Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards 2017, Finalist
The Art of Living Photography Show, ACCI Gallery, Gallery Award Winner
IMAGES FOR SALE
Photographs submitted
Piers Court, 23"H x 33"W
archival inkjet print
$1000
Limited edition of 9
Hamilton Avenue, 23"H x 33"W
archival inkjet print
$1000
Limited edition of 9
Alejandro Drive, 23"H x 33"W
archival inkjet print
$1000
Limited edition of 9
Contact:
www.charlottamh.com
https://www.instagram.com/charlottamh/?hl=en
HAMILTON AVENUE by Charlotta Hauksdottir
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PIERS COURT by Charlotta Hauksdottir
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CAN YOU SEE ME by Chelle Delaney
HONORABLE MENTION
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HONORABLE MENTION
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Chelle Delaney says, "Adopting a new persona is often how children and adults ward off and fight threatening situations.
In addition to today's Coronavirus
-masks, the latest superhero's outfit or costume mask may be a child's cloak of courage or shield to maneuver through today's pandemic – especially when loved ones are kept at a distance and daily routines and practices are uncertain. These children's images strive to show the vulnerability of childhood hidden behind or in contrast to masks in this scary, unpredictable era of Covid-19."
Chelle Delaney is a graduate of the University of South Carolina where she studied English Literature. Her photography art practice grew out of her work as a print reporter and editor for newspapers and magazines.
https://www.instagram.com/texaschel/
In addition to today's Coronavirus
-masks, the latest superhero's outfit or costume mask may be a child's cloak of courage or shield to maneuver through today's pandemic – especially when loved ones are kept at a distance and daily routines and practices are uncertain. These children's images strive to show the vulnerability of childhood hidden behind or in contrast to masks in this scary, unpredictable era of Covid-19."
Chelle Delaney is a graduate of the University of South Carolina where she studied English Literature. Her photography art practice grew out of her work as a print reporter and editor for newspapers and magazines.
https://www.instagram.com/texaschel/
NEW WAY OF BEING by Chelle Delaney
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VULNERABILITY by Chelle Delaney
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BROTHERS by Cheryl Clegg
HONORABLE MENTION
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HONORABLE MENTION
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Cheryl Clegg says, "I have been a photographer since my early days in Jr. High School, and have always looked at it as a way to capture the special moments in my life.
As a photographer & the mother of 5 children, my kids have always been my best subjects and have been in front of the camera since day 1. The photos of my children & family are what I treasure the most.
Family vacations have always given me the time to build on family memories with pictures, striving to create something visual about the place and time in our lives.
Carefree summers spent at the family lake house, winter days in the snow, the many “firsts” for each child, birthdays, holidays & everyday moments all cemented in time with the push of a button. Something my kids can look back on as they grow older and say, “remember when?”
Our walls at home surround us with a glimpse into days gone by, pictures line the walls, reminding us of our family bond & all of our time together. The wall space disappears as the kids start moving onto college, but I can hear the laughter of their carefree days that they have all shared through the pictures that bring us back to that moment in time.
I landed in Boston after attending RIT and have been fortunate to haven been in business for over 30 years. My client list varies from advertising clients, corporate clients and editorial clients.
Everyday is a good day when I am behind the camera."
Selected Exhibitions & Awards
Awards
Digital Photo Pro Finalist : The Face 2016
Black & White Spider Awards 2016: Nominee
Shoot The Frame Finalist: Jan. 2017, Feb. 2017,May 2017,June 2017,July 2017
Black & White Spider Awards 2017: Honorable Mention(Photojournalism), Nominee(People), Nominee (Portrait), Nominee (architectural)
Shoot The Frame Finalist: Feb. 2018, May 2018
Julia Margaret Cameron Award 13, 1st place cell phone category, Faces of the Rasin Foundation, 2018
ASMP, The Face, 2nd place for the series, Faces of the Rasin Foundation, 2019
Digital Photo Pro; Portraits, 2nd place, Alexa; Downeast Harborside, April 2020
Julia Margaret Cameron Award 15, single category winner, Amelia’s World,2020
Critical Mass. Finalist for the series, Downeast Harborside, August 2020
Exhibitions
Vermont Center for Photography 2017 Open Juried Exhibition, Brattleboro, Vt. March 2017
Darkroom Gallery Black & White (& Blue) 2017, Essex Jct. Vt, March 2017
Photoplace Gallery, Intimate Portraits, curated by Joyce Tenneson, Middlebury Vt. May 2017
Daivs Orton Gallery 3rd Annual group Show, curated by Paula Tognarelli, Hudson, NY, August 2017
The Curated Fridge, Winter exhibition curated by J. Sybylla Smith, Winter 2018
The Wotiz Gallery, Milton MA, Faces of the Rasin Foundation, Newton, MA February 2018
Photoplace Gallery, Celebrating Women, curated by Joyce Tenneson, Middlebury Vt. May 2018
ASmith Gallery, She, curated by Joyce Tenneson, Johnson City Texas, April 2019
ASmith Gallery, Red, curated by Fran Forman, Johnson City Texas, October 2019
ASmith Gallery, Surroundings, curated by Kat Kiernan, Johnson City Texas, December 2019
ASmith Gallery, Portraits, curated by Elizabeth Avedon, Johnson City Texas, May 2020
Stonehenge Gallery,Photo Competition 2020, Curated by Angie Dodson, July 2020
Texas Photographic Society, TSP 29, curated by Elizabeth Avendon, Oct.2020-March 2021
The Delaplaine Arts Center, Focus, curated by Regina DeLuise, November 2020
www.cleggphoto.com
https://www.instagram.com/cherylcleggphoto/
IG @cherylcleggphoto
As a photographer & the mother of 5 children, my kids have always been my best subjects and have been in front of the camera since day 1. The photos of my children & family are what I treasure the most.
Family vacations have always given me the time to build on family memories with pictures, striving to create something visual about the place and time in our lives.
Carefree summers spent at the family lake house, winter days in the snow, the many “firsts” for each child, birthdays, holidays & everyday moments all cemented in time with the push of a button. Something my kids can look back on as they grow older and say, “remember when?”
Our walls at home surround us with a glimpse into days gone by, pictures line the walls, reminding us of our family bond & all of our time together. The wall space disappears as the kids start moving onto college, but I can hear the laughter of their carefree days that they have all shared through the pictures that bring us back to that moment in time.
I landed in Boston after attending RIT and have been fortunate to haven been in business for over 30 years. My client list varies from advertising clients, corporate clients and editorial clients.
Everyday is a good day when I am behind the camera."
Selected Exhibitions & Awards
Awards
Digital Photo Pro Finalist : The Face 2016
Black & White Spider Awards 2016: Nominee
Shoot The Frame Finalist: Jan. 2017, Feb. 2017,May 2017,June 2017,July 2017
Black & White Spider Awards 2017: Honorable Mention(Photojournalism), Nominee(People), Nominee (Portrait), Nominee (architectural)
Shoot The Frame Finalist: Feb. 2018, May 2018
Julia Margaret Cameron Award 13, 1st place cell phone category, Faces of the Rasin Foundation, 2018
ASMP, The Face, 2nd place for the series, Faces of the Rasin Foundation, 2019
Digital Photo Pro; Portraits, 2nd place, Alexa; Downeast Harborside, April 2020
Julia Margaret Cameron Award 15, single category winner, Amelia’s World,2020
Critical Mass. Finalist for the series, Downeast Harborside, August 2020
Exhibitions
Vermont Center for Photography 2017 Open Juried Exhibition, Brattleboro, Vt. March 2017
Darkroom Gallery Black & White (& Blue) 2017, Essex Jct. Vt, March 2017
Photoplace Gallery, Intimate Portraits, curated by Joyce Tenneson, Middlebury Vt. May 2017
Daivs Orton Gallery 3rd Annual group Show, curated by Paula Tognarelli, Hudson, NY, August 2017
The Curated Fridge, Winter exhibition curated by J. Sybylla Smith, Winter 2018
The Wotiz Gallery, Milton MA, Faces of the Rasin Foundation, Newton, MA February 2018
Photoplace Gallery, Celebrating Women, curated by Joyce Tenneson, Middlebury Vt. May 2018
ASmith Gallery, She, curated by Joyce Tenneson, Johnson City Texas, April 2019
ASmith Gallery, Red, curated by Fran Forman, Johnson City Texas, October 2019
ASmith Gallery, Surroundings, curated by Kat Kiernan, Johnson City Texas, December 2019
ASmith Gallery, Portraits, curated by Elizabeth Avedon, Johnson City Texas, May 2020
Stonehenge Gallery,Photo Competition 2020, Curated by Angie Dodson, July 2020
Texas Photographic Society, TSP 29, curated by Elizabeth Avendon, Oct.2020-March 2021
The Delaplaine Arts Center, Focus, curated by Regina DeLuise, November 2020
www.cleggphoto.com
https://www.instagram.com/cherylcleggphoto/
IG @cherylcleggphoto
TOMMY 7 YEARS OLD by Cheryl Clegg
HONORABLE MENTION
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HONORABLE MENTION
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WILLY by Cheryl Clegg
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LEARNING CAT'S CRADLE by Cindy Konits
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Cindy Konits says of her series, 'Children and Technology,' in life, the only thing we can be certain about is uncertainty.
We cannot know now what the long term impact of technology will be on children or ourselves. We all live with nagging ambivalence and unanswered questions. Kevin Kelly, founding executive editor of Wired magazine, also has a self-described relationship with technology that is full of contradictions. But, since technology is an ‘outgrowth of the human mind…and therefore an outgrowth of life, even in the sense of evolution that led to life’. As adults along with children continually invent new ways to manage technology and the ambivalence accompanying it together, perhaps the technology that best serves us is what ultimately will survive with us."
Cindy Konits had BA degrees in Psychology and Education and MA in Urban Planning when she picked up a camera after the birth of her first child.
She found the combination of technology, aesthetics and intimacy with subject matter using this device thrilling. Her first photography classes generated solo shows and NEA and NEH exhibition grants. A few years later she was awarded a full merit scholarship to an MFA program at the Maryland Institute College of Art, followed by 15 years teaching Photography and Video Art at Stevenson University.
Her work with video, interactive CD-ROM, 8mm film, instant film, digital photography and generative algorithms explores complexities of family history, memory and identity in the face of personal life changes and evolving technologies. Konits lives and works in Baltimore and New York City. She fuels her creativity with competitive swimming, dog agility, running, yoga, and meditation.
https://www.instagram.com/cindykonits
https://www.cindykonits.com
We cannot know now what the long term impact of technology will be on children or ourselves. We all live with nagging ambivalence and unanswered questions. Kevin Kelly, founding executive editor of Wired magazine, also has a self-described relationship with technology that is full of contradictions. But, since technology is an ‘outgrowth of the human mind…and therefore an outgrowth of life, even in the sense of evolution that led to life’. As adults along with children continually invent new ways to manage technology and the ambivalence accompanying it together, perhaps the technology that best serves us is what ultimately will survive with us."
Cindy Konits had BA degrees in Psychology and Education and MA in Urban Planning when she picked up a camera after the birth of her first child.
She found the combination of technology, aesthetics and intimacy with subject matter using this device thrilling. Her first photography classes generated solo shows and NEA and NEH exhibition grants. A few years later she was awarded a full merit scholarship to an MFA program at the Maryland Institute College of Art, followed by 15 years teaching Photography and Video Art at Stevenson University.
Her work with video, interactive CD-ROM, 8mm film, instant film, digital photography and generative algorithms explores complexities of family history, memory and identity in the face of personal life changes and evolving technologies. Konits lives and works in Baltimore and New York City. She fuels her creativity with competitive swimming, dog agility, running, yoga, and meditation.
https://www.instagram.com/cindykonits
https://www.cindykonits.com
POPPY'S PHONE by Cindy Konits
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WHAT IS THIS by Cindy Konits
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MATTERISTHEMINIMUM by Cindy Weisbart
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Cindy Weisbart says, "In childhood, we show ourselves. We move: play, dance, run, slow, or still. We express: sounds, words, tones, gestures, art. We choose company - humans (one at a time, in groups), animals, nature, toys, make-believe, none.
Langton Hughes narrated this free expression, this “dream variation,” almost 100 years ago: “I fling my arms wide in some place of the sun/to whirl and to dance, till…” - with intention - “the white day is done.” He continues, “then rest at cool evening/Beneath a tall tree/While night comes on gently/Dark like me—That is my dream!”
Childhood in 2020 has invited young people to incorporate morality and conviction into the free expression of how they show themselves. The images here are expressions of childhood in the present, in the space of the sun, showing readiness for a world where night has a gentle darkness.
I was introduced to coyuntural analysis when I visited San Jose las Flores, El Salvador, a small city that re-created itself after years of civil war. In coyuntura, all stakeholders analyze a political moment together. With a comprehensive understanding, a community creates strategies for social and political progress based on a foundation of interdependence and empathy."
Cindy Weisbart composes moments of coyuntura-- representations of our common humanity -- in the photographic frame, through the interplay of gesture, light, color, and references to contexts unseen. She is inspired by the collaboration, critique and analysis of The Photo League, the Kamoinge Collective and the Bronx Documentary Center. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows around Boston and in New York since 2013.
Cindy is based near Cambridge, MA where she works as a public high school history teacher. Last year, on sabbatical in New York City, Cindy studied teen social documentary photography programs to create social studies classes based on student photography.
Career Highlights/CV
Juried Exhibits and Publications
2019-20
November 2020: “Quiet But Loud - 1,” Red 2020, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA (Juror: Layla Bermeo)
August 2020: “Chelsea in Black and White,” Chelsea Record, Chelsea, MA
February - March, 2020: “One-Two-Three Bulldogs! Four-Five-Six Family!”, Library and Learning Commons, Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, MA (Juror: Kevin Wery, Director of College Events and Cultural Programming, BHCC)
September, 2019: “One-two-three Bulldogs! Four-five-six Family!”, Portfolio Showcase, Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY (Juror: Karen Davis, Director)
2019 Emerging Artists Exhibition, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA (Juror: Chanel Thervil)
Second Annual Center for Equity and Cultural Wealth Institute, Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, MA (Juror: Kevin Wery, Director of College Events and Cultural Planning, BHCC)
6th International Open Call (2019), Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI (Juror: Aline Smithson)
2018
“Ghost of Somerville Past,” Place(Holder), Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA (Juror: Greer Muldowney)
“Union Gulf: 1947-2017,” Gallery at SPL, Somerville Public Library, Somerville, MA (Juror: Julie Walker)
“Union Gulf: 1947-2017,” Social Documentary Network (SDN) (Juror: Glenn Ruga)
Photography Study
Women Photograph Workshop (October, 2020)
Leica Akademie Boston, Photographing with Intention (Elizabeth Krist and Lynn Johnson, Oct 2020)
Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University
• Family: Reinterpreting the Personal Archive (Kamal Badhey, 2020)
Street Photography Workshops, New York City - (Jeff Jacobson - September, December 2019)
Maine Media Workshops + College, Rockport, ME
• Documentary Photography (Stella Johnson – 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017)
Sabbatical Study and Teaching, New York City (July 2019 - January 2020)
Teaching and planning support, volunteer work, professional development courses with teen photography programs
Bronx Junior Photo League, Bronx Documentary Center (South Bronx)
ICP at the Point, International Center for Photography (Hunt’s Point, Bronx)
ICP Teen Academy, International Center for Photography (Manhattan campus)
Teaching Visual Literacy, Aperture Foundation (Chelsea, New York)
Photoville NYC Education Day, Photoville NYC (Brooklyn Bridge Park)
Biblioteca Girasol - photo documentary workshop for youth leaders (Matapalo, Nicaragua)
Website: cindy-weisbart.format.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cindyweisbart/
I: @cindyweisbart
W: https://cindy-weisbart.format.com
Langton Hughes narrated this free expression, this “dream variation,” almost 100 years ago: “I fling my arms wide in some place of the sun/to whirl and to dance, till…” - with intention - “the white day is done.” He continues, “then rest at cool evening/Beneath a tall tree/While night comes on gently/Dark like me—That is my dream!”
Childhood in 2020 has invited young people to incorporate morality and conviction into the free expression of how they show themselves. The images here are expressions of childhood in the present, in the space of the sun, showing readiness for a world where night has a gentle darkness.
I was introduced to coyuntural analysis when I visited San Jose las Flores, El Salvador, a small city that re-created itself after years of civil war. In coyuntura, all stakeholders analyze a political moment together. With a comprehensive understanding, a community creates strategies for social and political progress based on a foundation of interdependence and empathy."
Cindy Weisbart composes moments of coyuntura-- representations of our common humanity -- in the photographic frame, through the interplay of gesture, light, color, and references to contexts unseen. She is inspired by the collaboration, critique and analysis of The Photo League, the Kamoinge Collective and the Bronx Documentary Center. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows around Boston and in New York since 2013.
Cindy is based near Cambridge, MA where she works as a public high school history teacher. Last year, on sabbatical in New York City, Cindy studied teen social documentary photography programs to create social studies classes based on student photography.
Career Highlights/CV
Juried Exhibits and Publications
2019-20
November 2020: “Quiet But Loud - 1,” Red 2020, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA (Juror: Layla Bermeo)
August 2020: “Chelsea in Black and White,” Chelsea Record, Chelsea, MA
February - March, 2020: “One-Two-Three Bulldogs! Four-Five-Six Family!”, Library and Learning Commons, Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, MA (Juror: Kevin Wery, Director of College Events and Cultural Programming, BHCC)
September, 2019: “One-two-three Bulldogs! Four-five-six Family!”, Portfolio Showcase, Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY (Juror: Karen Davis, Director)
2019 Emerging Artists Exhibition, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA (Juror: Chanel Thervil)
Second Annual Center for Equity and Cultural Wealth Institute, Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, MA (Juror: Kevin Wery, Director of College Events and Cultural Planning, BHCC)
6th International Open Call (2019), Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI (Juror: Aline Smithson)
2018
“Ghost of Somerville Past,” Place(Holder), Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA (Juror: Greer Muldowney)
“Union Gulf: 1947-2017,” Gallery at SPL, Somerville Public Library, Somerville, MA (Juror: Julie Walker)
“Union Gulf: 1947-2017,” Social Documentary Network (SDN) (Juror: Glenn Ruga)
Photography Study
Women Photograph Workshop (October, 2020)
Leica Akademie Boston, Photographing with Intention (Elizabeth Krist and Lynn Johnson, Oct 2020)
Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University
• Family: Reinterpreting the Personal Archive (Kamal Badhey, 2020)
Street Photography Workshops, New York City - (Jeff Jacobson - September, December 2019)
Maine Media Workshops + College, Rockport, ME
• Documentary Photography (Stella Johnson – 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017)
Sabbatical Study and Teaching, New York City (July 2019 - January 2020)
Teaching and planning support, volunteer work, professional development courses with teen photography programs
Bronx Junior Photo League, Bronx Documentary Center (South Bronx)
ICP at the Point, International Center for Photography (Hunt’s Point, Bronx)
ICP Teen Academy, International Center for Photography (Manhattan campus)
Teaching Visual Literacy, Aperture Foundation (Chelsea, New York)
Photoville NYC Education Day, Photoville NYC (Brooklyn Bridge Park)
Biblioteca Girasol - photo documentary workshop for youth leaders (Matapalo, Nicaragua)
Website: cindy-weisbart.format.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cindyweisbart/
I: @cindyweisbart
W: https://cindy-weisbart.format.com
THIS IS MY CHILDHOOD by Cindy Weisbart
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WHEN YOUR AUNTIE IS A TEACHER by Cindy Weisbart
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PORTRAIT OF A FEELING by Danielle Owensby
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This selection from Danielle Owensby's larger body of work, 'Hidden in Plain Sight', focuses on the expressions of anxiety in childhood.
Inspired by her own experiences, Owensby created tableaus using symbols and materials that capture the seemingly bright and innocuous moments. However, using methods of organization, obsessiveness, and light, these tableaus teeter on the balance between innocence and something more sinister, unseen, and oftentimes undetected.
Danielle Ellen Owensby, also known by the acronym of her full name, "deo," is an artist and writer who graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a MFA in Photography in 2017. She also graduated from Michigan State University with two degrees: a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art (Concentration in Photography,) and a Bachelor of Arts in English. Her visual work focuses on trauma and the fragility of memory and its intersections with identity. When she isn't making heavy work, she likes to travel and make fun narratives with her lens. She currently lives and works in Detroit.
Career Highlights
Owensby has shown her work both nationally and internationally in venues such as the Knockdown Center in New York, New York; Melbourne Art Center in Melbourne, Australia; University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and the Grand Rapids Art Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She has also curated exhibitions such as Hard to Kill: Artwork by Survivors of Sexual Violence at Agitator Gallery in Chicago, IL and Focus on Identity at One River School of Art + Design in Chicago, IL. She is the editor of The Jade Plant Project, a publication dedicated to sharing the work of survivors of sexual violence.
IMAGES FOR SALE:
Portrait of a Locker- 14"H x 11" W
Archival Inkjet Print
$50 unframed
Signed on back
Portrait of a Promise- 11"H x 14" W
Archival Inkjet Print
$50 unframed
Signed on back
Portrait of a Feeling- 11"H x 14" W
Archival Inkjet Print
$50 unframed
Signed on back
Contact: Danielle Owensby
owensbydanielle@gmail.com
www.danielle-deo-owensby.com
https://www.instagram.com/owensbyd/
Inspired by her own experiences, Owensby created tableaus using symbols and materials that capture the seemingly bright and innocuous moments. However, using methods of organization, obsessiveness, and light, these tableaus teeter on the balance between innocence and something more sinister, unseen, and oftentimes undetected.
Danielle Ellen Owensby, also known by the acronym of her full name, "deo," is an artist and writer who graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a MFA in Photography in 2017. She also graduated from Michigan State University with two degrees: a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art (Concentration in Photography,) and a Bachelor of Arts in English. Her visual work focuses on trauma and the fragility of memory and its intersections with identity. When she isn't making heavy work, she likes to travel and make fun narratives with her lens. She currently lives and works in Detroit.
Career Highlights
Owensby has shown her work both nationally and internationally in venues such as the Knockdown Center in New York, New York; Melbourne Art Center in Melbourne, Australia; University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and the Grand Rapids Art Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She has also curated exhibitions such as Hard to Kill: Artwork by Survivors of Sexual Violence at Agitator Gallery in Chicago, IL and Focus on Identity at One River School of Art + Design in Chicago, IL. She is the editor of The Jade Plant Project, a publication dedicated to sharing the work of survivors of sexual violence.
IMAGES FOR SALE:
Portrait of a Locker- 14"H x 11" W
Archival Inkjet Print
$50 unframed
Signed on back
Portrait of a Promise- 11"H x 14" W
Archival Inkjet Print
$50 unframed
Signed on back
Portrait of a Feeling- 11"H x 14" W
Archival Inkjet Print
$50 unframed
Signed on back
Contact: Danielle Owensby
owensbydanielle@gmail.com
www.danielle-deo-owensby.com
https://www.instagram.com/owensbyd/
PORTRAIT OF A LOCKER by Danielle Owensby
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PORTRAIT OF A PROMISE by Danielle Owensby
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CHILDHOOD 1 by Deborah Sfez
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Deborah Sfez is a multidisciplinary Israeli artist, born in 1964, working in Côte-D'Ivoire and Israel.
She is a recognised Artist in Israel and internationally and has won several photography and art awards.
Her work can also be found in the archives of several Museums.
Her tools are photography, moving image, filmed performance accompanied by texts and music and sound composition.
Her path, atypical, begins with studies of literature and languages and then by learning the trades of Fashion and Theater Costume.
Today her work mainly talks about the ups and downs of human existence, she talks about the experience of existence, partnership, how to overcome an illness, the fear of life, the beauty of being a woman and the impossibility of being perfect.
MUSEUMS
2020 CICA Museum, Korea Video Installation
2018 “Yad Vashem”, Jeusalem, visual center archive, “A Journey to The Land of
Memory” video work.
2017 The New Museum of Networked Art, Wilfried Agricola de Cologne.
Shoah Film Collection
AWARDS AND PUBLICATIONS
2020. "Writing in a Woman's Voice" poem Homeland
2020. "Testimony" a video poem on Artvilla
2019 "Anti-document" publication On A5 MAGAZINE UK (September)
2017 Finalist at Portrait exhibition for HELLERAU PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD, Dresden Germany
2014 PWP - Professional Women Photographer Jurors selection for best portraiture, NY, U.S.A
2014 Short Listed in ASFF Aesthetic Short film Festival in York for Video
“ SFEZMATOZOID” England
2013 Short Listed in Beers Contemporary Award for Emerging Art, London.
deborah.sfez46@gmail.com
https://www.deborahsphotographer.com/
https://www.deborah-s-artist.com
She is a recognised Artist in Israel and internationally and has won several photography and art awards.
Her work can also be found in the archives of several Museums.
Her tools are photography, moving image, filmed performance accompanied by texts and music and sound composition.
Her path, atypical, begins with studies of literature and languages and then by learning the trades of Fashion and Theater Costume.
Today her work mainly talks about the ups and downs of human existence, she talks about the experience of existence, partnership, how to overcome an illness, the fear of life, the beauty of being a woman and the impossibility of being perfect.
MUSEUMS
2020 CICA Museum, Korea Video Installation
2018 “Yad Vashem”, Jeusalem, visual center archive, “A Journey to The Land of
Memory” video work.
2017 The New Museum of Networked Art, Wilfried Agricola de Cologne.
Shoah Film Collection
AWARDS AND PUBLICATIONS
2020. "Writing in a Woman's Voice" poem Homeland
2020. "Testimony" a video poem on Artvilla
2019 "Anti-document" publication On A5 MAGAZINE UK (September)
2017 Finalist at Portrait exhibition for HELLERAU PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD, Dresden Germany
2014 PWP - Professional Women Photographer Jurors selection for best portraiture, NY, U.S.A
2014 Short Listed in ASFF Aesthetic Short film Festival in York for Video
“ SFEZMATOZOID” England
2013 Short Listed in Beers Contemporary Award for Emerging Art, London.
deborah.sfez46@gmail.com
https://www.deborahsphotographer.com/
https://www.deborah-s-artist.com
CHILDHOOD 2 by Deborah Sfez
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CHILDHOOD 3 by Deborah Sfez
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DOLLHOUSE BEACH 39 by Donna Bassin
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"It may indeed be questioned whether we have any memories at all from our childhood; memories relating to our childhood may be all that we possess."
Freud
"The overriding desire of most children is to get at and see the soul of their toys"
Baudelaire
Donna Bassin says, "Playing performs childhood ways of being. Play exists between daydreaming and purposeful action. Playful manipulation within miniature worlds allows for temporary re-possession of experiences once too overwhelming to be witnessed.
I photographed, with pinhole and plastic toy cameras, small worlds of dolls constructed through undirected play within a dollhouse's rooms. The camera, standing in for the adult body that is too large to go inside, was placed directly inside the dollhouse, allowing visual access to what I created within.
I started with a dollhouse I purchased as an adult to compensate for what was lacking in my childhood. Later, I moved my dolls and dollhouse furniture to Edward Hopper's beach in Truro, Massachusetts. I treat the dolls not just as playthings but rather subjects with their life history and secrets. The secrets of the past "play us," as well, until they are revealed.
The scale of representation was toyed with. The large-scale images of miniature worlds and dolls resize the adult viewer in relationship to their childhood past. Now, the adult in us is put in its place, not easily allowed to distance from the sizeable psychic presence of our childhood past."
Bio:
Donna Bassin, Ph.D. is a fine art photographer, clinical psychologist/psychoanalyst, published author, and award-winning documentary filmmaker who examines what is hidden within. She specializes in loss, grief, and mourning, and teaches “Mourning as Transformation: The Creative Edge of Traumatic and Ordinary Loss” at New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.
Bassin says, "As a photographer, film-maker, author, and practicing psychoanalyst, I feel an urgency for artistic recognition of the ruptures in our society and attempts towards repair.
The Afterlife of Dolls, a solo photographic and sound installation at the Montclair Art Museum, was a response to my work at Ground Zero. This project was featured on PBS' State of the Arts and received both a Golden Bell and Gradiva Award. I collaborated in the formation of a veterans' art initiative called Frontline Arts and directed and produced two award-winning documentaries – Leave No Soldier and The Mourning After – about post-traumatic stress in the veterans' community.
My work has been juried into numerous group exhibitions from New York City to Los Angeles. My photographs have been commissioned for book covers and are in both private and museum collections.
Recently, I was invited to represent New Jersey’s women artists in a public art project titled Her Flag (www.herflag.com) and I became part of an exhibition dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment curated by Rachel Gugelberger and Gabriel de Guzman of Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, New York.
Further selections from my portrait series - My Own Witness - have also been featured in a public art project in Brooklyn, New York, curated by Indira Cesarine and hosted by SaveArtSpace and Art4Equality, Art Off-Screen - a public, international exhibit curated by Eileen Jeng Lynch of Wave Hill (www.neumeraki.com), and For Which It Stands – presented by the Ford Foundation Gallery and Assembly Room and curated by Emily Alesandrini, Natasha Becker, and Eileen Jeng Lynch. It has also been awarded First Place in Los Angeles Center of Photography’s 5th Annual Fine Art Exhibition, Exploring Humanity."
Career Highlights:
Group Exhibitions
2020
Prayers for the Pandemic; Prayers for Progress; Prayers for the Planet; Prayers for the Presidency!, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
For Which It Stands, Ford Foundation Gallery and Assembly Room, New York, NY
Exploring Humanity, Los Angeles Center of Photography 5th Annual Fine Art Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
Artists for Social Justice, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art (Virtual Exhibit), New Harmony, IN
Artists for Social Justice, Kupferberg Center for the Arts at Queens College (Virtual Exhibit), New York, NY
Artists for Social Justice, Arc Gallery & Educational Foundation (Virtual Exhibit), Chicago, IL
Portrait 2020, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC
Bound Up Together: On the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
Art4Equality x Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Happiness, SaveArtSpace/Art4Equality; The Untitled Space, Tribeca, NY
Art4Equality x Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Happiness, SaveArtSpace/Art4Equality; Public art display, Brooklyn, NY
Art Off-Screen, Neumeraki, D*FIT Studio, Montclair, NJ
Her Flag, Old Barracks Museum (Virtual Exhibit), Trenton, NJ
2019
Little by Little, Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ
State of the Art 2019, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
Contemporary Portraiture: To See Each Other, Passaic County Arts Center, Hawthorne, NJ
ViewPoints 2019, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
2018
Armistice Day 2018, Puffin Cultural Forum – Frontline Arts, Teaneck, NJ
Call & Response: The Art of Listening, 1978 Maplewood Arts Center, Maplewood, NJ
Natural Encounters, N.Y. Photo Curator – Global Photography Awards
Viewpoints 2018, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
2017
Art Connections 13, George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
Street Photography, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece
2016
Cherry Blossoms in Winter, Rutgers-Newark, Branch Brook Park, Newark, NJ
Trois Poissons in a Big See, Sterling Sound, New York, NY
Viewpoints 2016, Aljira: a Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
Art Connections 12, George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
2015
Mirrors of the Mind 4: The Psychotherapist as Artist, Art Share LA, Los Angeles, CA
Awards and Grants
2020
First Place - Los Angeles Center of Photography's 5th annual juried exhibition: Exploring Humanity
Curator's Choice - ProArts Jersey City
2018
Honorable Mention for Segregation and Human Rights in the 12th Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Photography Gala Awards
2017
NAAP Gradiva Award for "The Mourning After”
IMAGES:
Dollhouse: Beach.39
Archival pigment print on fine art cotton rag paper
Dollhouse: Olivia
Archival pigment print on fine art cotton rag paper
Dollhouse: Red Chairs.3
Archival pigment print on fine art cotton rag paper
Work Not for Sale
https://www.donnabassin.com/
https://www.instagram.com/p1nhole/
https://www.facebook.com/donna.bassin.3
dibassin@gmail.com
Freud
"The overriding desire of most children is to get at and see the soul of their toys"
Baudelaire
Donna Bassin says, "Playing performs childhood ways of being. Play exists between daydreaming and purposeful action. Playful manipulation within miniature worlds allows for temporary re-possession of experiences once too overwhelming to be witnessed.
I photographed, with pinhole and plastic toy cameras, small worlds of dolls constructed through undirected play within a dollhouse's rooms. The camera, standing in for the adult body that is too large to go inside, was placed directly inside the dollhouse, allowing visual access to what I created within.
I started with a dollhouse I purchased as an adult to compensate for what was lacking in my childhood. Later, I moved my dolls and dollhouse furniture to Edward Hopper's beach in Truro, Massachusetts. I treat the dolls not just as playthings but rather subjects with their life history and secrets. The secrets of the past "play us," as well, until they are revealed.
The scale of representation was toyed with. The large-scale images of miniature worlds and dolls resize the adult viewer in relationship to their childhood past. Now, the adult in us is put in its place, not easily allowed to distance from the sizeable psychic presence of our childhood past."
Bio:
Donna Bassin, Ph.D. is a fine art photographer, clinical psychologist/psychoanalyst, published author, and award-winning documentary filmmaker who examines what is hidden within. She specializes in loss, grief, and mourning, and teaches “Mourning as Transformation: The Creative Edge of Traumatic and Ordinary Loss” at New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.
Bassin says, "As a photographer, film-maker, author, and practicing psychoanalyst, I feel an urgency for artistic recognition of the ruptures in our society and attempts towards repair.
The Afterlife of Dolls, a solo photographic and sound installation at the Montclair Art Museum, was a response to my work at Ground Zero. This project was featured on PBS' State of the Arts and received both a Golden Bell and Gradiva Award. I collaborated in the formation of a veterans' art initiative called Frontline Arts and directed and produced two award-winning documentaries – Leave No Soldier and The Mourning After – about post-traumatic stress in the veterans' community.
My work has been juried into numerous group exhibitions from New York City to Los Angeles. My photographs have been commissioned for book covers and are in both private and museum collections.
Recently, I was invited to represent New Jersey’s women artists in a public art project titled Her Flag (www.herflag.com) and I became part of an exhibition dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment curated by Rachel Gugelberger and Gabriel de Guzman of Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, New York.
Further selections from my portrait series - My Own Witness - have also been featured in a public art project in Brooklyn, New York, curated by Indira Cesarine and hosted by SaveArtSpace and Art4Equality, Art Off-Screen - a public, international exhibit curated by Eileen Jeng Lynch of Wave Hill (www.neumeraki.com), and For Which It Stands – presented by the Ford Foundation Gallery and Assembly Room and curated by Emily Alesandrini, Natasha Becker, and Eileen Jeng Lynch. It has also been awarded First Place in Los Angeles Center of Photography’s 5th Annual Fine Art Exhibition, Exploring Humanity."
Career Highlights:
Group Exhibitions
2020
Prayers for the Pandemic; Prayers for Progress; Prayers for the Planet; Prayers for the Presidency!, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
For Which It Stands, Ford Foundation Gallery and Assembly Room, New York, NY
Exploring Humanity, Los Angeles Center of Photography 5th Annual Fine Art Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
Artists for Social Justice, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art (Virtual Exhibit), New Harmony, IN
Artists for Social Justice, Kupferberg Center for the Arts at Queens College (Virtual Exhibit), New York, NY
Artists for Social Justice, Arc Gallery & Educational Foundation (Virtual Exhibit), Chicago, IL
Portrait 2020, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC
Bound Up Together: On the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
Art4Equality x Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Happiness, SaveArtSpace/Art4Equality; The Untitled Space, Tribeca, NY
Art4Equality x Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Happiness, SaveArtSpace/Art4Equality; Public art display, Brooklyn, NY
Art Off-Screen, Neumeraki, D*FIT Studio, Montclair, NJ
Her Flag, Old Barracks Museum (Virtual Exhibit), Trenton, NJ
2019
Little by Little, Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ
State of the Art 2019, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
Contemporary Portraiture: To See Each Other, Passaic County Arts Center, Hawthorne, NJ
ViewPoints 2019, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
2018
Armistice Day 2018, Puffin Cultural Forum – Frontline Arts, Teaneck, NJ
Call & Response: The Art of Listening, 1978 Maplewood Arts Center, Maplewood, NJ
Natural Encounters, N.Y. Photo Curator – Global Photography Awards
Viewpoints 2018, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
2017
Art Connections 13, George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
Street Photography, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece
2016
Cherry Blossoms in Winter, Rutgers-Newark, Branch Brook Park, Newark, NJ
Trois Poissons in a Big See, Sterling Sound, New York, NY
Viewpoints 2016, Aljira: a Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
Art Connections 12, George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
2015
Mirrors of the Mind 4: The Psychotherapist as Artist, Art Share LA, Los Angeles, CA
Awards and Grants
2020
First Place - Los Angeles Center of Photography's 5th annual juried exhibition: Exploring Humanity
Curator's Choice - ProArts Jersey City
2018
Honorable Mention for Segregation and Human Rights in the 12th Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Photography Gala Awards
2017
NAAP Gradiva Award for "The Mourning After”
IMAGES:
Dollhouse: Beach.39
Archival pigment print on fine art cotton rag paper
Dollhouse: Olivia
Archival pigment print on fine art cotton rag paper
Dollhouse: Red Chairs.3
Archival pigment print on fine art cotton rag paper
Work Not for Sale
https://www.donnabassin.com/
https://www.instagram.com/p1nhole/
https://www.facebook.com/donna.bassin.3
dibassin@gmail.com
DOLLHOUSE OLIVIA by Donna Bassin
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DOLLHOUSE RED CHAIRS 3 by Donna Bassin
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THE BABY IS THE SIZE OF AN ORANGE by Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick
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Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick says, "Change is constant. The process of growing older is an inescapable fact.
These images contain traces of a lifetime’s memories. They have to do with the passing of time, moments and people, love, sexuality, family, beauty, decay, fragility, longevity, vulnerability, sickness, health, and death."
Bio:
Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick is a photographer and photography teacher based in Princeton, New Jersey. She taught both Fine Art Photography and Photojournalism full time at Princeton Day School (retired in June), evening photography classes for the Princeton Adult School and has previously taught at the Maine Media Workshops.
For many years her personal work specialized in documentary and portrait photography. She has photographed for many non-profit organizations all over the world. Eileen has received a Visual Arts Fellowship from National Endowment for the Arts; a fellowship in Photography from New Jersey State Council on the Arts; an ArtsLink grant, funded by National Endowment for the Arts/The Soros Foundation; and funding from Princeton Day School's Johnston Faculty Enrichment Award and through Christine Gorman: the Neiman Foundation for Journalists at Harvard University supported by the Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation
IMAGES FOR SALE:
The_baby_is_the_size_of_an_orange
18"H x 12." W
Archival paper
$350 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
Ode_to_ Childhood_
18"H x 12.27" W
Archival paper
$350 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
Pandemic_ Baby_
18"H x 12.27" W
Archival paper
$350 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
Contact: Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick
eilhoh45@gmail.com
www.ehlphotos.com
These images contain traces of a lifetime’s memories. They have to do with the passing of time, moments and people, love, sexuality, family, beauty, decay, fragility, longevity, vulnerability, sickness, health, and death."
Bio:
Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick is a photographer and photography teacher based in Princeton, New Jersey. She taught both Fine Art Photography and Photojournalism full time at Princeton Day School (retired in June), evening photography classes for the Princeton Adult School and has previously taught at the Maine Media Workshops.
For many years her personal work specialized in documentary and portrait photography. She has photographed for many non-profit organizations all over the world. Eileen has received a Visual Arts Fellowship from National Endowment for the Arts; a fellowship in Photography from New Jersey State Council on the Arts; an ArtsLink grant, funded by National Endowment for the Arts/The Soros Foundation; and funding from Princeton Day School's Johnston Faculty Enrichment Award and through Christine Gorman: the Neiman Foundation for Journalists at Harvard University supported by the Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation
IMAGES FOR SALE:
The_baby_is_the_size_of_an_orange
18"H x 12." W
Archival paper
$350 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
Ode_to_ Childhood_
18"H x 12.27" W
Archival paper
$350 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
Pandemic_ Baby_
18"H x 12.27" W
Archival paper
$350 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
Contact: Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick
eilhoh45@gmail.com
www.ehlphotos.com
ODE TO CHILDHOOD 2 by Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick
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PANDEMIC BABY by Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick
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