edward burtynsky
Edward Burtynsky is known as one of Canada's most respected photographers. His remarkable photographic depictions of global industrial landscapes are in the collections of several major museums around the world, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Bibliotéque Nationale in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Born in 1955 of Ukrainian heritage at St. Catharines, Ontario, Burtynsky is a graduate of Ryerson University (Bachelor of Applied Arts in Photography) and Niagara College (Graphic Art). He links his early exposure to the sites and images of the General Motors plant in his hometown to the development of his photographic work. Edward Burtynsky's imagery explores the intricate connection between industry and nature; combining the raw elements of mining, quarrying, manufacturing, shipping, oil production and recycling into eloquent, highly expressive visions that find beauty and humanity in the most unlikely of places. In 1985, Burtynsky also founded Toronto Image Works, a darkroom rental facility, custom photo laboratory, digital imaging and new media computer-training centre catering to all levels of Toronto's art community. Mr. Burtynsky also sits on the board of directors for Toronto's international photography festival, Contact.
Exhibitions include Manufactured Landscapes at the National Gallery of Canada (2003) and Before the Flood (2003), which were showcased in San Francisco, Toronto, Montreal and London in 2004, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 2005, Burtynsky's visually compelling works have recently been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across Canada, in the United States, Europe and Asia.
An active lecturer on photographic art, Mr. Burtynsky's speaking engagements include the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, The Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the TED conference, Idea City, and Princeton University, New Jersey. His images have appeared in numerous periodicals, among them: Art in America, The Smithsonian, Harper's Magazine, Flash Art, Blind Spot, Art Forum, Saturday Night, Canadian Art, Playboy, GQ, the National Geographic Society and the New York Times.
Mr. Burtynsky's distinctions include the TED Prize, The Outreach award at the Rencontres d'Arles, The Flying Elephant Fellowship, Applied Arts Magazine book award(s), and the Roloff Beny Book award. In 2007 he was awarded the title Officer of the Order of Canada anb his honourary degrees include: Doctor of Laws, from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Doctor of Fine Arts in Photography, Ryerson University, Toronto and Doctor or Fine Arts from Monserrat College of Art, Beverly, Massachusetts.
Edward Burtynsky is represented by: Nicholas Metivier Gallery in Toronto, Paul Kuhn Gallery in Calgary, Art 45 in Montreal, Charles Cowles Gallery in New York, Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco, Flowers East in London, Galeria Toni Tapies in Barcelona and Galerie Stefan Röpke in Köln. His prints are housed in public, corporate and private collections worldwide.
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Born in Germany, Julia's childhood also included a 7-year stay in the United States before she moved to England in 1986. Julia has also travelled extensively throughout the world both on holiday and on business assignments. Trips meant spending several weeks at a time in countries such as China, India, Vietnam, Chile, Australia, New Zealand. These visits provided her with plenty of picture material as well as an insight into different cultures.
Julia studied photography at the Berkshire college of Art and Design. This was followed by work experience at Vogue magazine working with well-known fashion photographers. Then followed a five year period as a freelance assistant during which she assisted many photographers covering a wide variety of different fields. Julia gained a reputation as a very capable assistant, also tough enough to carry out the full physical work load.
Early in her career she returned to London after spending two months travelling in Vietnam with a number still-live images, that won her several awards. This gave her professional career the necessary kick-start. Julia is now a well-established professional photographer, who has shot campaigns for big name advertising agencies around the world, as well as many editorial commissions.
As well as her professional work Julia has also developed a body of personal fine art work, that has gained her wide-spread acclaim, and winning her numerous prestigious awards. Her images have been hung in the National Portrait Gallery, London, at Photo Paris, Photo London, and shown at Arles. She has also had solo exhibitions in London, and was a contributor to a group show in New York.
Julia's most recent personal work taken over the past three years has resulted in a major series of images on teenage girls. Here, her earlier images show girls involved in leisure activities, at home, in the garden, at the swimming pool, or at the beach. More recently, she has placed the girls in a model village environment, dwarfing their surroundings. Using her distinctive style of photography, she "explores the unsettling dynamics of puberty, a formative but sometimes uneasy time between childhood and womanhood, marked by change and a sense of anxious anticipation'. This body of personal work has yielded great acclaim, resulting in her winning yet more awards and being profiled in many professional and popular photographic magazines.
As one reviewer puts it "Julia's technical virtuosity allows her to use complex visual strategies that play on the viewer's habitual perception of the natural versus artificial. Her images combine a high degree of stylistic slickness with a sense of oddness resulting from the use of studio lighting in outdoor photographs'.
After reviewing the finalists' images for the prestigious 2005 Schweppes Photographic Portrait Award, hanging in the National Portrait Gallery, Brian Griffin, one of the UK's internationally renowned photographers, was inspired to write: "This photographer has a great future .... over time she may develop into one of this country's foremost photographers'.
www.juliafullerton-batten.com/dulce pinzòn
Dulce Pinzòn was born in Mexico City in 1974. She studied Mass Media Communications at the Universidad de Las Americas in Puebla Mexico and Photography at Indiana University in Pennsylvania. In 1995 she moved to New York where she studied at The International Center of Photography.
As a young Mexican artist living in the US, Dulce soon found new inspiration for her photography in feelings of nostalgia, questions of identity, and political and cultural frustrations. In her black and white series ’Viviendo en el Gabacho“ (a Mexican colloquialism for living in the US) she illustrates the dualistic phenomenon of the integration of the Mexican immigrant into the New York landscape.
This concept of dualism was further developed when she used nostalgic iconograpic images from a Mexican card game projected over the naked bodies of her New York friends and loved ones in ’Loteria“. ’Multiracial“ portrayed subjects of multiracial heritage against primary color backgrounds, exposing the frailty of our concepts of race. Her latest project ’The Real Story of the superheroes“ comes full circle to reintroduce the Mexican immigrant in New York in a satirical documentary style featuring ordinary men and women in their work environment donning superhero garb, thus raising questions of both our definition of heroism and our ignorance of and indifference to the workforce that fuels our ever-consuming economy.
Her work has been published and exhibited in Mexico, the US, Australia, Argentina and Europe. In 2001 her photos were used for the cover of a publication of Howard Zinn's book ’A People's History of the United States“. In 2002 Dulce won the prestigious Jovenes Creadores grant for her work. She won an Honorific Mention in the Santa Fe project competition 2006 with ’The Real Story of the Superheroes“ series.
Dulce is a 2006 fellow in Photography from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She currently resides in Brooklyn.
www.dulcepinzon.com/isabelle hayeur
Je suis née à Montréal en 1969. J'ai fait mes études à l'Université du Québec à Montréal, obtenant un baccalauréat en arts plastiques en 1996, puis une maîtrise en arts plastiques en 2002. Depuis la fin des années 90, je me consacre aux arts visuels à temps plein.
Artiste de l'image, je suis connue principalement pour mes montages numériques grands formats. J'ai aussi réalisé plusieurs installations in-situ, des oeuvres d'art public, des vidéos et quelques oeuvres d'art internet.Mon travail se situe dans la perspective d'une critique écologique et urbanistique. Ayant vécu dans une banlieue pendant une vingtaine d'années, j'ai été confrontée au spectacle de l'urbanisation étalée et aux nombreuses disparitions qui l'accompagnent. Mon approche est liée à cette expérience et se nourrit des discours entourant la question environnementale, comme des problématiques d'aménagement du territoire.
Les débuts de ma pratique artistique ont surtout été axés vers l'art vidéo. De 1996 à 2001, j'ai oeuvré au sein de Perte de signal, un collectif dédié à la jeune création en arts médiatiques dont j'ai été l'une des fondatrices. Le groupe diffusa rapidement les oeuvres de ses membres dans la plupart des festivals internationaux et organisa plusieurs événements et expositions.
Vers les années 1998-2000, ma pratique en photographie prit plus d'importance et j'ai commencé à exposer réguliàrement. Depuis ce temps, mes oeuvres ont largement été diffusées à travers le Canada et aussi en Europe, aux états-unis, au Mexique, en Argentine et au Japon. J'ai notamment présenté mon travail au Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, au Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, au Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago), au Casino Luxembourg forum d'art contemporain (Luxembourg), au Neuer Berliner Kuntsverein (Berlin), à la Southern Alberta Art Gallery (Lethbridge), à Oakville Galleries (Ontario), à Agnes Etherington Art Center (Kingston), au Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art (Toronto), à VOX image contemporaine (Montréal) et aux Rencontres de la photographie à Arles (France). J'ai fait également plusieurs résidences d'artistes à travers le monde.
En 2001, j'ai réalisé ma premiàre oeuvre in-situ, forme d'expression artistique que j'affectionne particuliàrement depuis. Elle fut présentée dans un panneau publicitaire du centre-ville de Montréal, de 2001 à 2006, à l'initiative de Quartier éphémàre. En 2002, j'ai fait partie de Fresh Air, un collectif féminin qui réunissait des artistes intéressées par l'in-situ. Dans le cadre du festival de photographie Contact, le groupe organisa une exposition dans une ruelle de Toronto en investissant une série de garages monoplaces. En 2004, pour la 6e MIVAÊM de Champ Libre, j'ai conu une installation vidéo dans un incinérateur à déchets désaffecté. Plusieurs autres projets in-situ ont suivi depuis.
Au cours des années 2005-2006, j'ai réalisé deux oeuvres d'art public à Montréal, notamment un triptyque photographique s'intégrant au réseau piétonnier souterrain de la ville. En 2006-2007, suite à une résidence au Wall House No. 2 de l'architecte John Hejduk, j'ai travailléé à une commande d'oeuvres photographiques pour Noorderlicht Photography, à Groningen en Hollande.
www.isabelle-hayeur.com/loan nguyen
Of Vietnamese decent, Nguyen was born in 1977 in Lausanne, Switzerland, and studied photography at the Applied Art School in Vevey. Her portfolio ranges from fashion and editorial photography to more personal series; she has done work for Hyàres Festival for Fashion Arts, Vogue, Elle, Wired, and several other high-profile clients. Her exhibitions include shows at Galerie Esther Woerdehoff in Paris, Hermann & Wagner in Berlin, Duncan Miller Gallery in Los Angeles, and Galerie Marangoni in Florence.
For her recent book De retour, published by Christoph Merian Verlag, Nguyen accompanied her father when he returned to his native Vietnam after decades away. She photographed his awkward reintroduction to the culture and the country's haunting landscapes. In one tender image, her barebacked father, with his belly slipping over khaki pants, boyishly peers out a window onto a once-familiar cityscape. The Mobile series, completed between 2000 and 2005, is more typical of Nguyen's approach; against muted backgrounds, such as pastures, near-empty beaches, and tangled trees, individuals adopt pensive and cryptic poses. In Gant rouge (Red glove), a woman sports poppy-red boxing gloves in an empty field, while in Dèbarcadàre (Wharf), a grey morning envelops a woman staring into a lake. Slipping human presences into natural environments, Nguyen captures lonely moments with a sweet lightheartedness. (LM)
Bio from from Artkrush.com
www.madameloan.com/corey arnold
Corey Arnold, 31, is a photographer and Alaskan crab fisherman. During October, January, and February you will find him working and photographing aboard the f/v Rollo in the Bering Sea. You may have spotted him aboard the Rollo during season 2 of the Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch. Now he keeps his things in Portland, Oregon after spending the last 5 years commuting from Oslo, Norway.
Corey graduated with a BFA in Photography from the Academy of Art College San Francisco. In 2005 he received a grant from the American-Scandinavian Foundation to photograph fisherman and whalers in Northern Norway, a project that continues to this day.
His work has been exhibited in galleries worldwide most recently, Richard Heller Gallery-Santa Monica, Sara Tecchia Roma NY, Kunstneres Hus-Oslo Norway, Pulse Art Fair-Miami, The Tiny Vices tour in Japan/Paris and The Nordic Heritage Museum-Seattle.
Recent Interviews and/or photo features could be found in publications such as Artweek, Outside, Italian Rolling Stone, Juxtapoz, Giant Robot, National Fisherman, Adbusters Norway, FHM UK, Vision (China), RE:UP, Popular Photography, Men's Journal, Carl's Cars, Alaska Fisherman's Journal and online with FecalFaceDotCom and Humble Arts Foundation's Solo-Show.
Corey has been nominated for the Aperature West book prize for 2007.
www.coreyfishes.com/sanchez brothers
Carlos and Jason Sanchez are a team of young artists (31 and 26 respectively) living and working in Montreal.
Their photographs are eerie tableaux that read like broken narratives; they are lush and complex scenes that explore psychological landscapes. Leaving the viewer with the chance to unlock the hidden storyline, these Montreal-based brothers create large-scale photographic prints that are cinematic in scope and compelling in content.
Functioning as cinematographers, every photograph is cast and staged meticulously, adding to the intriguing narrative and sense of mystery that surrounds these stunning photographs. In the past two years the brothers have received grants from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quèbec, The Canada Council for the Arts and The Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.
They have exhibited in Montreal, Toronto, New York, Houston, San Francisco and internationally in Paris, Berlin, Nice, Madrid, Amsterdam, and Brussels. Their work are included in numerous public collections including The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Le Musèe d'art contemporain de Montrèal, Le Musèe national des beaux-arts du Quèbec, Foam_Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the 21C Museum in Kentucky, USA amongst others.
www.thesanchezbrothers.com/thomas brodin
Thomas Brodin was born in 1977 in Caen, France. He has lived and worked in Brooklyn and New York City for the past 2 years. His work as a photographer shows images that have been collected and accumulated through many travels. The photographer's eye, illuminating Pygmalion, gives sense to the non-sense, recomposes the decomposed, pulls together the plasticity of the elements and gives to nature a romantic dimension. Poetic of the desolation. Even the identity of the subject seems to dissolve itself. Reality or fiction, photography or painting.
Thomas Brodin currently proposes series of photographs that was made when he first arrived in New York during spring 2006. Among his wanderings, he witnessed a disaster. The unbelievable destruction of an enormous warehouse rumored to be set by arsonist... It burned for 4 days and 4 nights...
Between the testimony of the traveler and the vision of an artist, we discover in watermarks the mental landscape of the tragedy in form of catharsis...
www.thomasbrodin.net/misty keasler
Misty Keasler was born in Houston, Texas on April 28, 1978. Keasler graduated from Columbia College Chicago with honors in 2001. She received the 2003 Dorthea Lange-Paul Taylor prize from the Center for Documentary Studies, was named as one of Photo District News 30 to watch, included in the book 25 under 25 up-and-coming American photographers in 2003, and was made an artist in residence at University of Dallas, Texas in 2005. Her first monograph, "Love Hotels The Hidden Fantasy Rooms of Japan" was published in 2007 by Chronicle Books and followed by a solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago. Keasler's work has been collected by the Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyasoto Museum of Photographic Arts in Japan and the Dallas Museum of Art. Keasler lives and works in Dallas, Texas.
www.mistykeasler.com/ www.jenkinsjohnsongallery.comjeongmee yoon
JeongMee Yoon (Corea, 1969), earned both a BFA from Seoul National University and a MFA from Hong-Ik University in South Korea.
Her work has been widely exhibited in galleries and museums around the world, including a solo show at the Kumho Museum, Seoul, as well as several collective shows such as the Busan Biennale and Gwangju Biennale in South Korea, Casa Asia in Barcelona, Loop Art Festival in Barcelona, Paris Cinema, Thermocline of Art New Asian Waves at the Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe, Germany), New Acquisitions at the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, Texas, USA), Flash Cube at the Samsung Museum of Art (Seoul, South Korea), The Photographic Center Northwest Gallery in Seattle, Washington and the Perkins Center for the Arts in New Jersey.
Numerous awards include the prestigious 2006 Daum Prize presented by the Geonhi Art Foundation (Seoul, South Korea), the Aaron Siskind Scholarship (NY, USA), and the Paula Rhodes Memorial Award among many others. In 2007, Yoon publishes a Photobook titled The Pink and Blue Project which gathers many of these photographs, with accompanying texts by the artist herself, Young June Lee, and Richard Vine (Managing Editor of Art in America). The book becomes is selected by American PHOTO magazine as one of The Best Photo Books of the Year. In April 2007, one of JeongMee's photographs from her Pink and Blue project appeared on the cover of Life magazine, accompanied by a report inside the publication. This issue turned out to be the penultimate edition of the now mythical publication.
Yoon's work is held in collections worldwide including Johnson & Johnson Collection (NJ, USA), National Museum of Contemporary Art (South Korea), The Museum of Fine Art (Houston, USA) Art Bank (South Korea), 5.18 Foundation (Gwangju, South Korea), Ssamzie Space (South Korea), the Dell Children's Medical Center (Texas, USA), and the private collection of Bonnie Yochelson (at the time she was Curator of Museum of the City of New York, USA).
Methodology and Photogaphic Technique
JeongMee uses a 6x6 Hasselblad camera, with the smallest aperture, f-22, in order to make sure all objects within the frame, appear in sharp focus, as in a painting.
Five to eight rolls of films are used in each photo session, while the definitive image is chosen among the sixty to ninety resulting proofs.
Globe diffused lighting is used in order to flash all the articles in a small room evenly.Informations:
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www.jenkinsjohnsongallery.com/cao fei
Cao Fei is no doubt one of the most remarkable and powerful artists of this generation. Born in 1978 in Guangzhou, Cao Fei has grown up in the world of electronic entertainments and advertisements. Fascinated by the vibrant landscapes of the consumer society, She started with her artistic career at an extremely young age. Cao Fei has developed a highly personal language of image making demonstrating the fantasy, desire, critique and jouissance vis--vis the mutating reality.
Cao Fei's work was recently shown at China Power Station: Part 1, an off-site Serpentine Gallery exhibition of contemporary Chinese video, sound and installation art co-produced by The Red Mansion Foundation at Battersea Power Station.
www.caofei.com/ www.vitamincreativespace.com/ryan schude
Ryan Schude was born and raised in the greater Chicagoland area, Ryan Schude moved to California in 1997. First in San Francisco, then to San Diego, and now currently in Los Angeles, where he live and work.
www.ryanschude.com/yang yi
Yang Yi was born in Kaixian, Chongqing in 1971. Worked as a graphic designer from 1993 to 2000 in Chengdu, China. Co-founded Lan Se Fei Yang advertising agency in 2001. Studied in a studio of photography at China Central Academy of Fine Arts from 2006 to 2007. Currently lives and works in Chengdu.
Uprooted
One morning, I don't remember when, I woke up in a sweat, my heart pounding in alarm. I was left only with a vague memory.
In my dream, I appear, clothed; I come and go along these familiar alleys. I revisit my old school, the dazzle of lights emanating from the cinema, the riverside where I used to swim, the rooftops where I once went to get a breath of fresh air, the winding pathways... all is in darkness, unattended, there are no friends or relatives to be found anywhere. Where do all of these bubbles and floating objects come from? It becomes difficult to breathe, I fail to grasp anything, I scream but no sound can be heard...
Near the end of 2005, camera in tow, I endeavored to return to my hometown in order to photograph it. For better or for worse, my town had not yet been completely leveled and the people had not yet been entirely relocated. Despite the many ruins, the city's activity could still be discerned. As for construction on the new town, that had long since been completed. Everything was so enthralling! I was far too busy looking up old friends and acquaintances to take any pictures. In the summer of 2006, I traveled by boat to the Three Gorges Dam. All along the route, in Zigui, Wushan, Yunyang, Fengjie and Wanxian, I photographed fragments of these riverside places.
This year I have returned several times. Each time, I felt it was a race against time. Thrilling slogans could be read everywhere, painted on the walls: Let us tear down half a city in one hundred days. They were destroying the old town so fast, leaving an atmosphere of death and decomposition everywhere. In taking these photographs, I had to hold my breath and, once taken, would make my escape.
I don't intend to dwell on the meaning to be found in my photography. What is important for me is that I came from that town. It is about all that we have in common there: our accent, our spicy coriander, the nod we give each other, a friendly signal to say hello when we pass one another on the street, these streets that we have traveled alongside our ancestors, that have herded us along together... this series was created for all of that. It will be my personal memoir!
In 2009, it will be among the last settlements to be evacuated of people and submerged under the waters of the Three Gorges Dam, uprooting its inhabitants forever. Kaixian, the 1800 years of my childhood home's history, expunged.
I was born there 36 years ago.
On that day, I will awake underwater.
www.parisbeijingphotogallery.com/daniela edburg
Daniela Edburg was born in Houston in 1975. The mexican artist holds a degree in visual arts from UNAM's National Painting School at Academia de San Carlos. She has been featured in numerous collective exhibitions in Mexico and abroad, such as: Carne y Piedra Istituto Europeo di Design (Madrid, Spain), Neurotic playground Red Head Gallery (Toronto, Canad), The view of 45 mexican photographers Guandong Museum of Art (Guandong, China), "Detras del Sueo: Fotografa contempornea mexicana", National Center for Contemporary Art (Moscow, Russia), XII Photography Bienal, Centro de la Imagen (Mexico City), Proximamente Museo Carrillo Gil (Mexico City), La Vanguardia Mexicana BAC Santa Mnica (Barcelona, Spain), to name a few.
Among her individual exhibitions we can mention: Dulce Destruccin La Mar de Msicas (Cartagena, Spain), Bittersweet Endings Adhoc Gallery (Vigo, Spain), "Bittersweet" Kunsthaus (Miami), "Here by accident" Aldaba Arte (Mexico City), "Drop Dead Gorgeous" Kunsthaus Santa Fè (San Miguel de Allende), "Nimbus" Galera Arte Joven (Mexico City), "Eat me" Kunsthaus (Miami), "As seen on TV" La Panadera (Mexico City) and "Let's play house" Centro Cultural El nigromante, (San Miguel de Allende).
She received the 2008 Grant for Young Creators from the National Fund for Culture and Arts (Mèxico), in 2006 she was selected for the 2nd. Sivam Visual Arts Award. In 2004 she was awarded a grant from the Government of the State of Guanajuato and received Honorable mention in the 26th. National Encounter of Young Artists.
She currently works and lives in San Miguel de Allende.
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