The work of Emmanuel Monzon focuses primarily on the idea of urban sprawling and the urban expansion of its periphery. Monzon photographs urban banality as though it were a romantic painting, trying only to be “stronger than this big nothing” in controlling the space by framing the subject.
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The soap opera format is a form of performance which most appropriately reflects a current state of life. The stage is always full of charm for me.
Marie Antoinette was, in every way, the pop superstar of her time. At the age of 14, she became a ripe offering of peace as the promised bride to young king-to-be, Louis XVI.
Everything that exists, exists in motion. What seems to be the most permanent, the mountains, the trees, the moon in the night sky, is decidedly not. "The mountains”, says Dogen “are walking.
This project attempts to make sense of a world that can at once be beautiful, uncertain, fragile and frightening. Like fairytales, I hope my photographs inspire awe, otherworldliness, and mystery.
Sleep paralysis is an experience in which the individual becomes conscious and is left immobile in a state between being awake and asleep.
I began photographing dolls in 2001 to listen to their voices, and see their secret lives once again as I did in my childhood. And after a few years of inviting them into a photographic world I staged, I started asking myself, “Why do I really photograph dolls?”
25 years ago I woke up in a hospital with no memory of how I had gotten there. A Certain Distance is an ongoing series of images exploring the things I haven’t been able to say to anyone.
This series I named Bandage Portraits. It is meant to explore the state of emotional destruction and resilience. It is so easy to be ignorant to your own feelings even though you are aware of them.
Swee Oh is an internationally acclaimed fine art photographer, based in San Francisco, California.She is originally from Malaysia.Her work is focused in her two favorite genres of photography.
There is a difference between what should be and what is. Often we find, in this human condition, an inexorable yearning to escape. To quote Housman "I, a stranger and afraid; in a World I never made"
This series represents a portion of an ongoing project that Los Angeles based photographer Bret Hartman been working on with the TED Fellows program for over 3 years.
Des Moines (Sep 17, 2016 – Jan 22, 2017) This exhibition features 70 photographs of people encountered on the streets of New York City and Chicago by the late photographer Vivian Maier.
In 2014 Karolina traveled via the trans Siberian Railway from Moscow to Ulan Ude, the capital city of the Republic of Buryatia.
As a life long New Yorker I’ve spent a good amount of time people, watching. There is no place better than in the NYC subway system.
Born in 1984 (by fate, being born on World Photography Day), Nádia Maria is a Brazilian photographer based in Bauru, São Paulo, Over the years she explored photography, and has studied at Senac school in Brazil.
San Francisco (Oct 27 – Dec 23,2016) Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to present Lee Friedlander: Western Landscapes. The landscape especially the extravagantly varied landscape of the American west
A national symbol of Argentina, present-day Gauchos live nearly identical lifestyles to those of their ancestors three centuries ago. This lonely, nomadic lifestyle consists of living off the land and the cattle that they tend.
San Francisco (Jan 21 – Apr 30, 2017) The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present the West Coast debut of the acclaimed exhibition diane arbus: in the beginning
Terri Gold is an award-winning photographer known for her poetic infrared imagery of people from the remote corners of the world. She is a storyteller who is happiest when she is in a world that is unknown to her.
Ted VanCleave's new photographic series “The Hollywood Sign: New Perspectives” presents the famous Hollywood Sign from unique perspectives not available to the public.
In a famous and intimate New Jersey theater, Stephanie at the age of 14 went under a spell as she watched photographers work with this small little black machine dressed in numbers.
Out of Season: The Vanishing Architecture of the Wildwoods (Booth-Clibborn Editions, distributed in the U.S. by Abrams) collects extraordinary color photographs by Philadelphia-based artist Mark Havens.
Inspired by 17th and 18th century Dutch paintings, with simple backgrounds and solemn expressions, the images in ‘Falling from Grace…’ present a feast; fruit, vegetable, meat, fish, cake.
I use photography as a way for me to communicate on a deep level.This has taken me years to understand and I am still learning.This communication is hard for me to put in words.
Cecilia Sanchez has two children and is pregnant with her third. When asked how far along she is, she simply tilts her head and shrugs. She doesn’t know because she hasn’t been able to see a doctor yet.
Lincoln (Oct 8 – Mar 26) DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum is pleased to present the upcoming exhibition Edward Steichen: Twentieth-Century Photographer.
Contemporary Street Photographer, Castro Frank was born on August 28th, 1983. This Los Angeles native’s style of photography fuses together a journalistic approach with an artistic eye to create imagery.
Working Jill is a photographic conceptual series that represents there is a notion of humor about a very serious subject still seemingly controversial today. Equal pay for women in the same jobs as men.
Building facades melt into darkness, their architectural details vanish, leaving only glowing windows in a sea of pitch black, like stars in the night sky.
An ongoing portrait series of off-season Santas. Santa Roy is a retired police officer who, in 1984, was named one of the Top Ten Law Enforcement Officers in the State of Florida.
Annick Donkers is a documentary photographer from Antwerp, Belgium who currently lives and works in Mexico City.
New York (21-25 Sep, 2016) Sophie Gamand will present your first American solo exhibit during Photoville in Brooklyn. Photoville is a free photography festival.The particularity of the event is that the exhibits are presented in containers.
City Space is an ongoing photographic exploration of the urban environment and my perception of it. I am interested in the physical space of the city and its emotional and psychological impact on the body.
San Francisco (8 Sep – 22 Oct) Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to present the first U.S. exhibition of new, large-format photographs of abandoned theaters by Hiroshi Sugimoto.
Florida (Jul 22 – Dec 31) Jerry Uelsmann remains the forerunner of photomontage in America for the 20th century as he employs multiple negatives to create intricate darkroom works of art.
Some people need the past to be tangible. For them, the past doesn't just disappear into nothingness. It stains every object they encounter.
Catherine Edelman Gallery opened in 1987 quickly establishing itself as one of the leading galleries in the Midwest devoted exclusively to the art of photography.
When we hear the words “black and white,” we often assume that is all we’ll see, but in this series of photographs I utilize tones and shades of grey. This grey expresses and gives this work its emotion and depth.
Chicago (Sep 9–Oct 29, 2016) We are thrilled to present our first solo exhibition for Clarissa Bonet, whose photographic work is garnering terrific international press.
I have spent the greater part of my life living in Manhattan, a city with a constantly changing visual plan that continues to inspire me to explore its physical complexity.
The city can be beautiful. The city can be ghastly. In this series, inspired by Erik Larson's bestselling historical book, The Devil in the White City, McMonigal examines the urban environment as a physical manifestation of human intentions, both the good and the evil.
Jorge Barreda is a 23 year old fine art photographer who is currently living near the Mexico City area. His studies are based in Melbourne, Australia, and Mexico.
A beautiful project created by the Peruvian photographer Esteban Brocos trying to create a collective consciousness, it takes a long time to be ready but here it is.
Alexandra Uhart is an artist photographer born in Chile who is based in London. Before turning her focus to the photographic pursuit she studied Aesthetics, which helped shape the philosophical enquiries that she would later express visually in her work.
Artist and storyteller Jessica Hines, uses the camera’s inherent quality as a recording device to explore illusion and to suggest truths that underlie the visible world.
Through the Diablada, a folk dance with Andean origin that represents in a simple way the fight between the evil and good, the work investigates the struggle of the Bolivian immigrants living in a foreigner country.
Alex Cooke is a portrait, events, and landscape photographer from Cleveland, OH. A musician and mathematician, he found that his artistic inclinations and obsessive attention to detail suited him perfectly to photography.
