Watanabes work is like a contemplative behavior that focuses on the breath so that the moment is fully free to emerge. So that the instant is lived as completely as it can be, Watanabe stays open for all the elements of discovery... the dried leaves in the foreground before the names of the dead. These are the illuminations of his pictures. Anthony Bannon, Director, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

Findings

Arts & Photography

Hiroshi Watanabe

Individual Artists

Photolucida

Life and death in the hard rock mining belt, photographed by acclaimed Canadian photographer. The result of 12 years of documentary research conducted in NE Ontario &amp; NE Quebec 1991-2003.

Cage Call

Louie Palu

What at first appears to be a series of photojournalistic decisive moments is revealed, at a second look, to be a powerfully imagined vision that establishes its strength through its very artificiality. (Stein's images) are used as a means to manifest and examine the human condition and the state of the planet, while never abandoning the essential groundedness of her informants, and the realities of their specific tales. Amy Stein crafts photographic allegories set simultaneously in a number of different liminal spaces. Her sure and realistic color works manifest the place where the human-built meets the wild, but in addition they show us where the factual descriptive image meets fiction.

Domesticated: Photographs by Amy Stein

Photography & Video

SurfLand

Phillip Prodger

2nd Tour Hope I Don't Die

Peter van Agtmael

In his book Guardians, photographer Andy Freeberg has captured whimsical and poetic images of women who guard the art in the great museums of Russia. In 2008 and 2009 Freeberg shot the 36 color photographs that appear in the book at four Russian museums: the Hermitage and Russian State Museum in St. Petersburg, and the Tretyakov Gallery and Pushkin Museum in Moscow.In many of the photographs the women magically assume characteristics of the art they guard. One woman with a blue and white sweater draped over her shoulders sits beside a Matisse still life, whose blue tablecloth could be cut from the same material. Some of the guardians watch over paintings whose subjects suggest younger versions of themselves. And one woman, poised in a room of European masterpieces, appears to have emerged from a Vermeer.The introduction is written by New York Times Moscow bureau chief Clifford J. Levy with a translation in Russian as well.

Guardians (English and Russian Edition)

Andy Freeberg

Clifford Levy [Introduction]

The subject and outline of the pictures in the book concentrate on the Sami people. They spread out over an immense area, from the extreme north-west of Scandinavia as far as the Kola peninsula, in Russia.

Máze

Céline Clanet

Priya Kambli's works introduce us to an unfamiliar language. These elegant statements force us to pause, to learn and utilize at least one new mode of translation. The reading requires effort; there are several distances to cross to unveil their full meanings. She applies her translation skills to images that derive meaning from cultural, inter-generational, and trans-global sources. She is making viewers - not from her family, not Indian, not first-generation immigrant - confront a set of symbols and relationships that do not fully reveal themselves on first encounter. The success of her work, however, lies in its eloquent capacity for fascination. It employs many devices; pattern, texture, screens, color, and mysterious deletions and exclusions weave a tale of vulnerability, transience, inheritance, and transformation. And the photograph as an evanescent container of memory has a vital role.

Color Falls Down

Priya Kambli

Pointek's project has a dark tenor. She readily admits that she is drawn to the uncanny, and is interested in the project having an underlying tension, a feeling of uneasiness and disturbance. However, it is not intended to be a grim essay on the effects of isolation on the human soul. The work is about the North, the Idea we have of the North, but in the end it is about a place we seek most of our lives.She.is attempting to capture the essence of a place through the individuals who live there, to leave an impression, to reflect its intricacy, and to discover where the reality of the place brushes up against archetype and expectation.

The Idea of North

Birthe Piontek

WATERSHED: The French Broad River

Slemmons, Rod

Rich, Jeff

Carson, Hartwell

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