July 2010

Sarina Finkelstein was born in Columbia, Missouri but now lives in New York City. She received a MFA in Photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York, NY and a BFA in Photography and Art History from Washington University in Saint Louis, MO. Her photographs have appeared in The Sunday Telegraph Seven Magazine, Esquire (NL), GOOD, Mass Appeal, Absolute, Town & Country, Food Arts, Market Watch, New York Post, Time Out NY, and Time Out NY Kids. Her work has also been featured in slideshows on the Telegraph, TIME and GOOD websites and on Conscientious blog. Sarina was selected for the 2010 Review Santa Fe, has been a guest speaker for the Professional Women’s Photographers (PWP) and a featured photographer in PWP magazine, as well as a speaker and award recipient at the 2004 Society for Photographic Education National Conference.

This works is from her series, The New 49ers, of which she writes, ‘In the midst of the recession, I have been driven to document the struggles of ordinary people against extraordinary odds. They are the new wave of gold prospectors that have re-emerged in California, 150 years since the original Gold Rush, united by a passionate and desperate search for gold to support them until the job market improves. The miners here—recent layoffs, veterans, retirees, ex-convicts and freelancers—are dependent on the income they derive from prospecting. Selling an ounce of gold at its now all-time high market rate of $1200+/oz. provides them with hope for survival.

Sophia Wallace is a photographer and visual artist based in New York City. Wallace’s work has received critical photo industry acclaim, recognized two years in row by American Photography. Her series ‘Truer’, was selected as a winner by ARTslant and for shows including Slideluck Potshow XIV at Aperture Gallery and Nymphoto. With recent exhibitions at the Leslie Lohman Gallery, Sasha Wolf Gallery and a show currently at the Carnegie Art Museum, Wallace’s work can be seen in a variety of photography venues. In addition to her fine art practice, Wallace shoots editorially for the New York Times Styles and T Magazine, Time Out New York Magazine, The Guardian and Humanity in Action among others.

Of this series, Modern Dandy, she writes, ‘Beautiful men and handsome women interest me. I am struck by the complexity of holding disparate polarities. Strict codes of gender are often taken for granted leaving all of us at various points in our lives policed for over stepping an unstated boundary. In my work, I seek to aestheticize this space of in-between– where gender overlaps. This series is my latest project in an ongoing exploration’.

Marcus Gaab was born in 1970 in Germany, but currently lives between Berlin and New York City. He studied photography at Folkwang University in Essen. His clients include The New York Times Magazine, ID, Vogue Italia, Vanity Fair, Arena Homme Plus, Zeit and Wallpaper. He is represented by AFG Management in New York and London and iDm in Paris.

Alex Arz is a 22-year-old photographer hailing from Frederick County, Maryland, where she was raised by a mother, a brother, two sisters, cows, horses, fields and rivers. She is a recent graduate from Rhode Island School of Design and is currently based in Brooklyn, NY. These images are from her series, Human-Animal, of which she writes, ‘The animals in these pictures often occupy the home space as fixtures much like the trinkets and framed pictures that broadcast the animal lover’s identity. Various objects, including empty grocery store food packets, tchotchkes, stuffed animals, animal clothes, car decals, drawings, memorialized gravesites, and photographs identify the human owners as animal-lovers, even when the object of their affection is not captured in the frame. As many of my photographs make clear, some human identities are carved through the creation of a familiar human-pet dynamic involving both affection and dominance, captivity and care. My photographs record this symbiosis as it occurs in the American home’.

Corin Hewitt is a Brooklyn-based sculptor and photographer. Hewitt received a BA from Oberlin College and an MFA from Milton Avery School of Art at Bard College. His work has been shown widely in the U.S. as well as Europe. He has had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of Art and The Seattle Art Museum and has been included in group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York, the Astrup Fearnley Museum in Norway, the Wanas Foundation in Sweden, and with the Public Art Fund which commissioned a public project in Brooklyn, NY. Hewitt is a member of the Artist Pension Trust and is represented by Taxter and Spengemann Gallery in New York.

Matthias Heiderich is a Berlin-based photographer.  This work is from his series entitled ‘Color Berlin’. Along with photography, Heiderich is also a musician and records Electronica/IDM/Experimental music under the name, Massju.

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Peter Brown has photographed the open landscape and small towns of the Great Plains for the past twenty-five years. He is the author of Seasons of Light, On the Plains and the recently published West of Last Chance, a collaboration with the novelist Kent Haruf which won the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize. His work has been collected by The Menil Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, MoMA New York, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Getty Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art among many others. He’s the recipient of an Individual Artist’s Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award, the Imogen Cunningham Award, and grants from the Graham Foundation and the Cultural Arts Council of Houston.

His work has appeared in Harpers, DoubleTake, Life, PDN, PhotoIcon, The New Yorker, Aperture, American Photographer, Texas Monthly and other magazines. He has degrees in English and Art from Stanford University and teaches at the Glasscock School at Rice University where he recently won their inaugural teaching prize. He was named Photographer/Educator of the year by the Houston Center for Photography and lives in Houston with his wife Jill and daughter Caitlin.

Daniela Edburg was born in Houston, Texas but grew up in San Miguel Allende, Mexico. She studied Visual Arts in the National University San Carlos Academy in Mexico City and in 2001 she started making photographs. Since then her photography has been exhibited in museums and art centers worldwide and can currently be viewed at “Qui Vive?” Moscow International Biennale for Young Art. She is represented by Kunsthaus Gallery in Mexico and Miami, Adhoc Galeria in Spain, and Paulo Perez Mouriz in Italy. This work is from her ‘Killing Time’ series.