Feature Shoot

Olya Ivanova lives and works in Moscow, Russia. She received a B.A. in Literature, and then worked as journalist and copywriter. In 2007, she became interested in photography. Russian Reporter, Psychologies and Time Out are a few of her editorial clients. Her work can be found in museums and private collections and she has been included in group exhibitions such as  InsideOutside: New images from Russia and Fotoweek (Washington D.C.).

Photographer and graphic designer, Emil Kozak was born in Denmark in 1980, but currently lives and works in Barcelona, Spain. Of his work he writes, ‘Moving from cold Scandinavia to the warm south had a big impact on me. In an attempt to capture my encounters with this beautiful and strange new place, I was struck by how life often seem to move at a slower pace in Spain’. Check out his blog for more of his excellent design work.

Curated by Alison Zavos, ‘Sea Change’ is a group photography exhibition—part of the Wassaic Summer Festival—which examines our complicated relationship with animals and the environment in wake of the greatest environmental disaster in American history, the BP oil spill.

Featuring the work of 25 emerging and established photographers, most of whom are based in New York, the exhibition (August 13-22) will be displayed on the beautifully decaying walls of seven rooms in the old Greek Revival Hotel section of Maxon Mills.

Participating photographers: Zev Jonas, Alexander Diaz, Annick Rosenfield, S. Billie Mandle, Charlie Engman, Elizabeth Weinberg, Eric White, Eva Fazzari, Geordie Wood, Jacqueline Di Milia, Kate Kunath, Katharyn Addcox, Katie Shapiro, Lexi Adams, Margaret Inga Wiatrowski, Mark Mahaney, Marten Elder, Nadya Wasylko, Niv Rozenberg, Rachel Barrett, Rob Hann, Robert Warren, Stanislav Ginzburg, Steven Brahms and Timothy Briner.

‘Sea Change’ runs from August 13-22. Art Reception in Maxon Mills, August 14; 5pm-7pm. Wassaic Project is at 19 Furnace Bank Road, Wassaic, NY

The Wassaic Project Summer Festival is a FREE, annual, multi-disciplinary celebration of art, music, and community in the hamlet of Wassaic, NY. 2010 will feature over 100 artists, 25 bands, poetry readings, dance performances, film screenings, and much more. http://www.wassaicproject.org/

Geneviève Caron has been taking pictures since she was in her teens, but only decided to become a photographer in her late twenties, after having worked as a graphic designer for a few years, as well as project manager in an advertising agency. She studied photography, graphic design and fashion merchandising. In her work, she chooses to represent an idealized, beautified reality which she controls both on set and in post-production. The subtle interaction between visual elements, independent of the subject matter, support strong notions of minimalism throughout her work. She spends her time between travel, personal projects and commissioned photography, both advertising and editorial, which regularly appears in major publications. This series, ‘Inbetween’, will be exhibited at One 800 Gallery in Toronto from August 8-29.

David Leventi grew up in Chappaqua, NY and Nantucket, MA. In 2001, he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri. His photographs have been widely published in Culture + Travel, Vanity Fair, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, BlackBook, Travel & Leisure, Best Life, Forbes, I.D. Magazine, New York, LIFE Magazine, Time Out New York, and Time Out New York Kids. His advertising work includes projects for Pentagram, Concrete Brand Imaging Group, The Howard Gilman Foundation, Knoll International and R 20th Century Design.

Leventi’s current project, titled “Bjoerling’s Larynx,” records the interiors of world-famous opera houses. Photographed with a large-format view camera, this body of work is architecturally meticulous. The large prints historically document these national landmarks, capturing rows of velvet seats, ornate private boxes, chandeliers and gilt decorations in incredible detail. He will be having a solo show of this work at Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans on August 7- September 11, 2010. He is represented by Greenhouse Reps and shows with Bonni Benrubi Gallery.

Emily Keegin was born in San Francisco in 1980. In 2009, she received her MFA in Photography from Royal College of Art in London. She is currently based in Brooklyn. About this series, ‘Homeland’, she writes, ‘Pivoting around a set of studio self-portraits, this work focuses on issues of and the 21st century American Dream, investigating contemporary femininity and aging through the relationship of domestic materials to the body. Gesture and object result in a series of meetings between the masculine and the feminine, organic and inorganic. Part personal narrative, and part social commentary, the work slips between comfort and newness, tradition and surprise, flopping between the banal and iconic.

Bogdan Radenkovic is a 21 year-old photographer from Pirot, a small town in southeastern Serbia. He is currently living and studying in Nish. Of his work he writes, ‘I often feel uneasy in large cities, so I started series of photos called “La Nausee” which is inspired by Sartre’s novel with the same name (The novel concerns a dejected historian, who becomes convinced that inanimate objects and situations encroach on his ability to define himself, on his intellectual and spiritual freedom, evoking in the protagonist a sense of nausea). Every time I feel that sense of nausea I take a photo of a proper surrounding that actually caused it. I use photography as a medium to explain what I actually feel, also I take a photo every single day, as I became convicted that If I don’t explain one day with a photo I feel that this day actually didn’t exist’.

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’.