Beth Galton says, "Amour de Pomme de Terre is a photographic series that explores the curious life-cycle of the potato. When first harvested, potatoes appear smooth, but as they age, their shape distorts and changes, and then miraculously, new green growth appears.

This is because potatoes don’t grow from seeds, like most other vegetables, they grow from what is called slips––shoots that sprout directly out of the matured bodies of tubers. For this series, I collected potatoes I found visually interesting at farmer’s markets, and allowed each to mature in my studio.

I observed and documented these bulbous, vulnerable creatures, as they transformed and gave way to new life.  Capturing this new life, emerge from seemingly barren objects, was inspiring to me. The resulting large-scale prints point to the cyclical nature of time and the chance for new growth in all living things.

I am 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.  My personal practice brings these elements of my history together, in an effort to reimagine the classic 19th-century botanical drawing, as means of investigating the nature of time, through organic forms."

SHOWS
2019 “Cookbook19” at MOCO - Montpellier Contemporian, Montpellier France
2018 Wave Hill-show of the series Les Botaniques Vivants, Riverdale, NY
2018 The Center for Fine Art Photography - Illuminate Juried Exhibition,Fort Collins, CO
2017 Center for Photographic Art - Internatinoal Juried Group Show, Carmel,CA
2017 The Fence 2017 - Juried Group Show - Traveling Exhibition
2017 Food: Paintings & Photography - Group Show, Beth Urdang Gallery,Boston, MA
2016 AP-SF Something Personal Exhibition - Group Show, San Francisco, CA
2015 Milano Art Week Ode to Food, Group Show Milan Italy
2015 The Taste of Art – First Place, Boulder CO
2015 McIninch Art Gallery, Discomfort Food, Manchester, New Hampshire
2014 Aperture Summer Open Group Show, New York, NY
PRESS
2017 APA National- article about botanical work
2015 Business Insider, People.com, Time.com, Washingtonpost.com, The Journal: Cut Food
2015 E-Junkie: Artist of the Week 2014 Soura Magazine: Cut Food
2014 MailOnline, Epicurious.com, Barn & Dining: Cut Food and Texture Series
2013 Feature Shoot: Cut Food 2013 Online: GizModo, My Modern Met, Yahoo News, Buzz Feed, Trendland, ABC, Saveur, Design Taxi, MSN, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Daily News, Visualpotluck.com: Cut Food, Idiom, and Texture Series
2012 Photographer’s i: work
AWARDS
2019 Tokyo International Foto Awards- Bronze for Organiques Momifiés
2018 Julia Margaret Cameron Awards- Honorable Mention- Fine Art Series and Still Life
2018 IPA Awards- First Place
2018 PDN Taste Awards- First Place
2018 Graphis Photography Annual - Gold and Silver
2018 Communication Arts Photography Annual
2017 APA National Editorial
2016 Communication Arts Excellence Award
2016 Graphis Photography Annual Two Gold Awards
2015 Graphis Photography Annual Merit Award
2015 One Eyeland Photography Silver Award
2014 The Art Directors Club – Merit and Bronze
2014 Graphis Photography Annual Merit Award
2014 International Photography Awards – Honorable Mention
2014 PDN Taste Awards – First place and Merit Award
2014 PDN One Life – Winner: Things

Image:
Amour de Pomme de Terre 2-Garnet Sweet Potato from Union Square Greenmarket, N.Y., N.Y.; Propagation period: 15 days in South-facing window.


www.bethgaltonfineart.com
beth@bethgalton.com
https://bethgalton.com
 

Image:
Amour de Pomme de Terre 3-Fingerling Sweet Potatoes from Union Square Greenmarket, N.Y., N.Y.; Propagation period: 12 and 6 days in East-facing window.

 

​Image:
Amour de Pomme de Terre 6-Fingerling Sweet Potato from Union Square Greenmarket, N.Y., N.Y.; Propagation period: 16 days in North-facing window.

Charlie McCullers says of the series, 'Pointe', "The relationship between a dancer and the floor is perilous; it is always dependent on circumstance, situation, ability and chance. Among the many factors that facilitate the dancer’s uneasy alliance with gravity is the belief that the foot will stand solid and support the intention of the artist. There is never a guarantee that will occur, only a blind faith in the belief that a shoe made of silk and glue will deliver its promise."

Charlie is a working photographer from Atlanta.  He matriculated from the University of Georgia with a BFA, and the Savannah College of Art & Design with an MA and MFA in photography.  His work continues to be published and acknowledged, most notably by the Tate Gallery in London, the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, DC, the High Museum in Atlanta, and on behalf of the Sir Elton John Photography Collection.  Charlie also serves as principal photographer for Atlanta Ballet, a position he has held since 2000.


Select Exhibitions

2019    Where the Light Enters, Savannah College of Art & Design      Atlanta, Georgia

2018    This Land Is Your Land, Savannah College of Art & Design  Savannah, Georgia

2017    This Land Is Your Land, Savannah College of Art & Design      Atlanta, Georgia

Ricochet: Confiscated Weapons, Atlanta Photography Group      Atlanta, Georgia

2016    Ricochet: Confiscated Weapons, Atlanta Police Headquarters    Atlanta, Georgia

2015    Pas de Deux, Michael C. Carlos Dance Centre    Atlanta, Georgia

Porsche:  Art + Design, Savannah College of Art & Design      Atlanta, Georgia

2014    Strata, Michael C. Carlos Dance Centre        Atlanta, Georgia

2013    Steel Toes, Michael C. Carlos Dance Centre     Atlanta, Georgia

www.charliemccullers.com
www.mccullersandmontalvo.com

Claudia Cebrian says,"Promised Land speaks of my own story as an immigrant. 
It's also the story of my family.I chose an old pie of luggage representative of a foreigner. It's old because it represents
my own family's move from Europe to 
Argentina after World War 2. Also searching for a better life.

My own journey started in 2002, as a mom and wife looking for a better life for myself
and my children, along with my
husband. 

Our own country was suffering another 
economic crisis and it was enough of a 
constant instability for us to make the
move..

Like almost all immigrants I've had some good times, but along with bad ones full of 
sadness and longing for what I left behind.

Adapting to a new culture, 
language issues, cultural differences,
loneliness, and even  joy is where we were headed and where
most of us are living on a daily basis. That is the life of immigrant.

Dried flowers stuck in an English /Spanish
Dictionary are a reflection of the time I spent outside my country and it brings a certain 
wave of nostalgia to my whole being. 
pages as a reminder of a special moment 
now gone.

I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
and my journey as a photographer began when I moved to Bariloche.

The art of The art of photography caught my attention and quickly became my passion.

In 2002, I moved to the US and have lived
in Miami ever since. I’ve had the pleasure 
of collaborating with names such as 
Architectural Digest. 
My eagerness to keep improving led me to Maine Media Worlshop school, where
I learned from Cig Harvey.

My photos always begin with a concept
and my main concern is that my images are impeccable illuminated and well exposed.

At times, I try to control a photos 
variables, but other times I simple go out with my camera to explore the world
and the result can be magical."

Career Highlights

2019 Loosenart. Suburbs and Peripherals Environments Exhibition, Rome, Italy.
2019.The Plastic Fantastic Show X exhibits Toy Camera Photographic Images. Third place juror awards. Astoria, OR.
2019. Lenscratch Ordinary Creatures Exhibition.

2019. Snap Downtown Og1. The Florida showcase 2018. Snap Downtown OG1. Florida, USA.
2018. The Deep Blue Sea . Claudia Cebrian y la LCA. Interview and publication. Lomography.  https://www.lomography.com/magazine/336332-the-deep-blue-sea-claudia-cebrian-and-the-lca USA.
2017. LensCulture winter exhibition. On line. Selected by the curator ,Susan Nalband.. https://www.lensculture.com/lensculture-winter-exhibition-2017 New York, USA.
2017. Photo of the day section. 2017. Don ́t take pictures Magazine.  http://www.donttakepictures.com/photo-of-the-day/2017/8/30/claudia-cebrian 2019]. Boston-New York, USA.
2017. Crusade for Art. CB2.  Florida, USA
2016. Pinta Art Fair. Gallery Markarius. MANA Wynwood. During Art Basel, Florida, USA.
2015. ArtExpo New York. Current Art Group USA — Art Projects a Division of Contemporary Art Projects USA.  New York, USA.


clau@clauphotography.com
www.claucebrian.com
@claucebrianfotos

Dan  McCormack says, "I use traditional 8 x 10 B&W film in a homemade oatmeal-box pinhole camera to create wide-angle distortions with the cylindrical focal plane. The familiar becomes unfamiliar, the ordinary extraordinary. By then replacing the black-and-white values with subtle hues through successive pulling of curves in Photoshop, I interact with and interpret the image. I photograph the model nude in her own home, apartment, or studio, surrounded by her possessions for two-minute exposures. A collaboration between model and photographer, the images attempt to reveal an intimate portrait of the subject."

Dan McCormack studied Photography from 1962-1967 at the Institute of Design, the New Bauhaus, at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago where he studied with Aaron Siskind, Arthur Siegal, Wynn Bullock and Joe Jachna. Next, he earned an MFA in Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1967 to 1970 having studied with Barbara Crane and Ken Josephson. He began photographing the nude with Wendy, his wife while in graduate school. Then for over forty years, he explored various techniques and processes while photographing the nude as a central theme.

In 1971,  Dan co-founded the Mombaccus Art Center in Accord which received NYSCA grants for two years. The center offered classes in photography, ceramics, painting, drawing, house building and mime. The Mombaccus Art Center had local and national shows every month. Dan McCormack curated a show of photographer Judith Steinhauser.

From 1973 to 1975 Dan McCormack was a founding member of the Woodstock Artists Co-Operative and he had a solo show with the Co-op.

In 1975 Dan joined the Catskill Center for Photography and served as Vice President of the Board of Directors for ten years. During that term, he had a solo show at CCFP and he participated by hanging every show with another director for the first ten years. During his time with CCFP, Dan curated several shows, one with the work of Aaron Sisikind, and another of photographers who were teaching photography in a college and another of early digital imagery.

In 1982, Dan McCormack won an NYSCA-CAPS Photography Fellowship with a series of infrared nude images made of Wendy. With that series, he produced a monograph, “BODY LIGHT-Passages in a Relationship” in 1989.

In 1988, Dan joined Level 3 Gallery, a Co-Operative Photography Gallery in Philadelphia as a founding member. He participated in monthly shows and he had a solo exhibition celebrating the publishing of his monograph, “BODY LIGHT”…

In 1988, Dan McCormack became the director of the Art Gallery of the Art Department at the Dobbs Ferry campus of Mercy Collegey. During his year he curated several shows including a solo show of photographer Will Faller and of painter Nancy Ostrovsky.

Dan McCormack has taught photography at Purdue University, Pratt Institute, SUNY New Paltz, Bard College, Mercy College, Ramapo College, Columbia-Green Community College, Somerset Community College, County College of Morris before coming to Marist College twenty-five years ago. He currently heads the Film Photography program at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Dan McCormack began teaching an Advanced Seminar in Photography at the Mombaccus Art Center in 1971. The Seminar next moved to the Catskill Center for Photography for over ten years. In the mid-1980’s Dan McCormack teamed up with Eric Lindbloom and they co-taught the Advanced Seminar in Poughkeepsie, next back at the Center for Photography in Woodstock, and then back again in Poughkeepsie at the Barrett Art Center. In 2015 Eric Lindbloon stepped down and Michael Sabilia assumed the co-leader with Dan McCormack.

In 1998 Dan began to work with pinhole camera photography. In 2009, he won the Ultimate Eye Foundation’s grant for Figurative Photography and had his work featured in an exhibition at the Peninsula Museum of Art in Belmont, CA.

In January 2010, Dan McCormack had a solo show at the Photography Center of the Capital District in Troy, NY. He showed over fifty images from ten diverse series made from 1990 to 2010.  In May 2013, Dan had a solo show at the Barrett Art Center in Poughkeepsie, NY. In this exhibit, he showed 28 images from his “Nude at Home” series. Then in January 2016,  he had a solo show of the “Nude at Home” series at the Beacon Artists Union in Beacon, NY and in May of 2016, Dan had another show with newer images of the “Nude at Home” series at the Arts Upstairs Gallery in Phoenicia, NY.

 http://ulsterartistsonline.org/user/130           dan_mccormack@yahoo.com    

 

Donghyun Choi says of the series, 'Simulacre', Life is a journey to find a reason for existence.

Yet, there is one thing that disturbs 
the journey, simulacra which is generation by models of a real without origin or
reality.

This photo series reflects my thought and
answer about it. To deliver the theme
effectively, I edited images as surreal as 
possible to bring out elements as simulacra in photography. In addition, images contain
minimal composition and colors to focus on
the me clearly."

DongHyun Choi is an emerging photographer based in Seoul,
South Korea,

He's self-taught photography all by himself.

He mostly works on conceptual art and fine art. Evn he was self-taught, his work contains a deep perspective in philosophy.

Through photography, he tries to reveal the
relation between human beings and simulacra, which is generation by models of
a real without origin or reality.

Related to the theme, his works are surreal and minimally composed. 

As a photographer, he not only cares about
the visual storytelling of photography but also the experiential part of an individual person. Therefore, it is better to understand his work as conceptual art than as visual art.

CV

Photography Awards

2019 International Photography Awards, Honorable Mention (Fine Art (others))

2019 Fine Art Photography Awards, Nominee (Open Theme, Amateur Category)

2019 Siena International Photography Awards, Honorable Mention (The beauty of the nature)

2019 Athens Photo Festival, Finalist

Bachelor of Industrial Engineering

Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea (Republic of Korea), 02/03/2011 – 28/08/2015

Industrial Engineering

Business Management / Statistics

Interaction Design / Human Factors

Career Highlights

2019 International Photography Awards, Honorable Mention (Fine Art, others)

2019 Fine Art Photography Awards, Nominee (Open Theme, Amateur Category)

2019 Siena International Photography Awards, Honorable Mention (The beauty of the nature)

2019 Athens Photo Festival, Finalist


https://www.instagram.com/david_choi_photo/

david0302@naver.com

Donna Bassin says, "'I Am My Own Witness', a series of portraits began after the 2016 election, melds my work as practicing psychoanalyst and photographer. These portraits artistically address the profound personal and social pain I have encountered in our current historical moment. I have invited others into my studio to collaborate in the creation of portraits that embody their personal reactions to these chaotic and frightening times.

Through varying poses, gestures, and use of props and costumes, I challenge the sitters to bear witness to themselves. In the process, they assert their identity - “here I am” - even as they have been figured by others as invisible and un-entitled to their place(s) in this American moment. While the black velvet background creates an aesthetic commonality between the portraits, what appears in each is unique. Some seem to be disappearing into the background exploring feelings of profound vulnerability or helplessness. Others emerge, uncovering ferocious strength and resilience. As my collaborators choose to disclose, discover, unveil, and reveal, they claim ownership of images and self. They have all written short stories bringing their narrative history to the images.

Inspired by Emmanuel Levinas’ observation that the portrait invites a face-to-face relationship between portrait sitter and viewer. Perhaps these encounters may remind us of our ethical duty to consider the lives and vulnerability of each other."

Donna Bassin is a fine art photographer, psychoanalyst, published author, and award-winning documentary filmmaker who resides in New Jersey. Despite the desire to pursue photojournalism during the war in Vietnam, she put her camera away after Janis Joplin threw a bottle of Southern Comfort at her while on assignment for The Michigan Daily.

Years later, her contemporary photographic work resumed after she served as a consultant with New York City’s Department of Mental Health following the tragedy of September 11. Her award-winning photography series, The Afterlife of Dolls, her response to long hours at Ground Zero, was featured as a solo show at the Montclair Art Museum in Montclair, New Jersey. It was awarded a Gradiva Award and Golden Bell Leadership Award for contributions to mental health through the arts and, as well, was featured on NJTV’s State of the Arts. Subsequently, her work has been juried in many group exhibitions from New York City to Los Angeles.

Her photographs have been commissioned for book covers, and her work is in several private collections. Donna was recently invited to represent New Jersey women artists in a public art project titled Her Flag (www.herflag.com), which will exhibit at the state capital in 2020.

Her two documentaries, Leave No Soldier and The Mourning After, tell the stories of U.S. veterans as they explore and share the impact of P.T.S.D. on their lives and the role of community in their “coming home.” Leave No Soldier was featured at the Rhode Island International Film Festival and was the winner of a Director’s Award in 2008. The Mourning After was published by Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing as a recipient of a video grant and was awarded a Gradiva Award in 2017.

As an author, she has published several books and journals in the areas of gender, motherhood, community activism, mourning, and the use of the arts as a witness to trauma.

Donna is an adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor at New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is a co-founder and past president of the board for Frontline Arts, whose mission is connecting and building community through socially-engaging art practices.

Currently, she is working on two new series, As I Am My Witness and Pilgrimage. 

Career Highlights
Group Exhibitions

2019    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    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


www.donnabassin.com
www.instagram.com/p1nhole
www.facebook.com/donna.bassin.3http://www.instagram.com/p1nhole
 

Elizabeth O'Connor says, "Fascinated with the idea of photography as a medium of documentation or of truth, I have long sought to alter the truths before me through a variety of methods: superimposing images, incorporating text, experimenting with alternative processes, combining alternative processes with traditional processes, using appropriated imagery, and incorporating personal mementos. I have also been drawn to the works of people – particularly women - who have used their artistic mediums to tell personal stories in intimate ways, notably: Nancy Rexroth, Clarissa Sligh, Nancy Mairs, and Maya Angelou.

My recent work, Sacred Exposures, is a series of small, black and white photographic studies that both juxtapose and permanently fuse once-private and hidden familial cemeteries with newly constructed public areas in my adopted hometown of Morrisville, North Carolina, a small and rapidly growing suburb of the state capital. 

These familial plots were once hidden on ancestral lands but, due to recent growth/construction, have now become parts of very public places: in the middle of large neighborhoods like mine, along greenways, tucked into corners of school playgrounds and shopping plazas, located along busy thoroughfares, etc. I have chosen to record these intimate places in small-scale Polaroids in order to work intimately and directly.

The Polaroid film also allows me to create images that wax nostalgic while exploring topical and complex subject material, such as urbanization, gentrification, loss, dignity in death, exhumations, and reinterments. I chose to present these images on handcrafted paper to reference the folios I saw regularly in my grandmother’s scrapbooks and photo albums, which were filled with snapshots and handwritten notes, created to preserve the memories, places, and people important to her."

Elizabeth "Betsy" O'Connor holds a Master's Degree of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and a Bachelor's Degree of Fine Arts from the University of Arizona (UA). Her concentration in both programs was in photography. She has also studied photographic illustration at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT).

Betsy is a full-time faculty member of the University of Phoenix (UoPX), currently specializing in helping students successfully transition into college life, in developing First-Year Sequence curriculum, and in mentoring Associate Faculty. 

She has also taught a variety of Humanities courses for UoPX. Betsy served as an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Barton College in North Carolina for 8 years, where she chaired the Photography Department, a position that entailed facility design, curriculum development, and student recruitment, as well as teaching the full range of class offerings.

While at Barton, Betsy also helped plan and implement the college's First Year Seminar Program, serving for one year as its director. She has taught undergraduate photography courses for VCU, as well as continuing education courses for Chesterfield County, VA.

Betsy lives in Raleigh, NC, with her husband and two teenage children.

elizabethoconnor1971@gmail.com

 

Ellen Felsenthal says, "Working with horses has changed the way I move through the world. 

These sensitive, complex beings force me to slow down, to be truly present.  Walking among them I am aware of the subtlest changes - the flick of an ear, the twitch of a muzzle, a shift of weight – there is meaning in every gesture, silent communication within the herd, and with me.  When I am surrounded by horses I am grounded, deeply connected to the natural world. 

Horses are no longer simply something in the landscape, they are my landscape. I am captivated by their form; the sensuous curves, the undulating lines, the varied textures, the myriad colors and patterns.  They fill my senses, and it is through this lens that I view the world.   

I have developed this body of work over the course of two decades. Horses have always provided me with a sense of purpose and belonging; with them I am at peace with my place in the world."
  
Ellen lives on a small farm in Arlington, WA, surrounded by her animal family. She has been a tenured member of the faculty in the Photography Department at Everett Community College for 20 years.  She is also the founder and director of New Moon. Farm Sanctuary, a non-profit animal rescue.

University of Washington, Seattle  MFA: Photography, 1998

University of Texas, Austin:  BA: Studio Arts, 1992, BA: Art History, 1992, BFA: Theatrical Design, 1990

www.ellenfelsenthal.com

 

Eva Mueller says, "Growing up with parents who were eclectic collectors and a father who had a keen interest in curious and odd things, I was always drawn towards weird looking people and objects, I see beauty in ugliness. In my quest to find out who we really are and what is this all about I get inspired by random things I encounter in my daily life. I’m curious about he hidden, the forgotten, I’m attracted by outcasts and non-conforming characters. My practice involves working with my intuition as much as possible before I plan or conceptualize a project.​"

Eva Mueller is a visual artist and photographer. She studied graphic design and art direction in her native Germany. In 1990 Mueller moved to New York and studied photography at International Center of Photography (ICP). Mueller worked  as a fashion and music photographer. Her photographs were published in numerous major fashion and style publications.  

In the last decade Mueller shifted her focus to fine art photography and conceptual art. Her recent projects take a deeper look at the core values of our human existence, such as gender identity, race and sexuality. 
About Face follows a successful solo exhibition, Flowers & Chocolate, an installation featuring black penises paired with flowers at Art During the Occupation Gallery in April 2018 and GenderFuck a series about non-binary gender identity at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York City 2017. Mueller published her first book Flowers & Chocolate this year. Muellers work has been shown in galleries and museums in the US, England, Germany, France, Italy, Brazil and China.

In keeping with the philosophical expressions in her work, Mueller is an active member of New York’s queer art and lifestyle community.

Mueller currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York

www.evamueller-art.com
@evamueller

 

Gaetano Ippolito says, "My goal in photography is as simple as weird: I want to lose my way. I try to capture my feelings and sensations by photographing indefined objects and situations. I think this is the only way to get in touch with myself really.

Born in Naples, 1997.I first met photography in 2018 when I joined "Laboratorio Irregolare". During this experience, I realized "Möbius" and presented it at "Villa Pignatelli - Casa della Fotografia" in Naples.

Currently, I attend "Centro di Fotografia Indipendente" founded by the italian photographers Mario Spada, Biagio Ippolito and Luca Anzani.


Instagram: @gaetanoippolito_
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Isabella Convertino says, "To shoot the sun is both a reflection upon my personal traumas and experiences with masculine energies, and an investigation of male privilege within American suburbia. I am interested in containing and studying male power— observing its growth and erosion, sourcing its construction and relegation. In this body of work, I forge suburban geographies to create a terrarium, one in which I am able to direct and deconstruct performances of gender. Through formal uniformities, each image implicates its subjects in an immobility and overexposure, working to align episodes and spaces of privilege with a kind of death."

Isabella Convertino (New York, 1998) is a young artist residing in New York and Connecticut. She is currently engaged in undergraduate studies at Wesleyan University (CT).

Her work has been published by ROMAN NVMERALS press, and was recently acquired by the MoMA library. Convertino's images speak to the complications of adolescence, compounding memory and trauma as points of departure. Interested in the interplay between familial and gender structures, her work probes modes of privilege and power in the suburban context. 

Career Highlights:
PUBLICATIONS:
2019 Portfolio, #63 - PORTRAITS OF LIFE, GUP
2019 Feature, From Here On Out
2019 NO. 14, AINT-BAD 
2019 We Love, PAPER JOURNAL
2018 72, ROMAN NVMERALS
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2018 Private Document, Analogue Forever, Online
2018 PALM* Photo Prize, theprintspace Gallery, London

www.isabellaconvertino.com
contact@isabellaconvertino.com
 

Izabela Jurcewicz says, "In this work, I return to traumatic memories and experiences that I endured as an inter-organ tumor patient. My situation was one of 300 cases worldwide where science had few answers to the cause and how to proceed. The medical procedures performed upon my body during the initial 9-hour surgery, live as a photographic negative in my life. This deep somatic memory is called to visibility in this work, externalised through the photographic surface.

Through returning to the memories and replaying them under controlled studio conditions, I aim to transform them on a cellular level, so my body can regain balance. In this act of return, I replace the invasive surgical instrument with my camera as a receptive device to register, merge and enable a ritual of healing. It is this process of emphatic engagement that brings dimensionality to the body and self again, and grows a capacity to join with the suffering of others. From this work I than meet my Father, supporting him through his own cycle of trauma, as he has cancer."

Izabela’s photographs have been exhibited in numerous exhibitions, including the International Center of Photography, ClampArt, Baxter St CCNY, School of Visual Arts Flatiron Gallery, Affirmation Arts in New York, RISD Museum and MONA Museum of the Newest Art in Poznan. Her works were presented during such international photography festivals as Unseen Amsterdam, Month of Photography in Bratislava (OFF), 12th Fotofestival in Lodz, 8th Biennale of Photography in Poznan.

She was an artist-in-residence at the School of Visual Arts and her works were included in publications by International Center of Photography, University of Arts in Poznan, Arsenal Gallery in Poznan and BlackBox Gallery in Portland. 

Recent talks given at Museum Fine Arts Boston and Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester. 

She is a graduate of MFA in Photography at the Rhode Island School of Design. Izabela is currently a lecturer at the University of Arts in Poznan in the Photography Department.

http://izabelajurcewicz.com
https://www.instagram.com/izabelajurcewicz/

--------------------------------------'INTROSPECTIVE MATTER' HOME
https://laphotocurator.com/introspective-matter-michael-kirchoff

FIRST PLACE
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SECOND PLACE
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BEST SERIES
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HONORABLE MENTIONS
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EXHIBITION #1
https://laphotocurator.com/introspective-matter-michael-kirchoff/exhibition-1

EXHIBITION #2
https://laphotocurator.com/introspective-matter-michael-kirchoff/exhibition-2/1

EXHIBITION #3
https://laphotocurator.com/introspective-matter-michael-kirchoff/exhibition-3/1