© Brooke DiDonato
Blending In
11 x 17 inches
Edition of 10
$375 (40% of proceeds to Hempstead Town Animal Shelter)
© Brooke DiDonato
Showtime
11 x 17 inches
Edition of 10
$375 (40% of proceeds to Hempstead Town Animal Shelter)
Flora & Fauna, presented by the photography website Feature Shoot at Photoville, is a show about plants and animals curated by Feature Shoot’s Instagram followers opening Friday, September 10 at Brooklyn Bridge Park. Over a period of 3 weeks, we sorted through over 9,000 images and posted over 400 images to Instagram, inviting our followers to vote. Our followers cast their votes simply by “liking” the image(s) on Instagram, and the 25 most popular images (from 22 photographers around the world) are presented in this show.
Winning images run the gamut from a pit bull wearing a floral crown to birds swarming above an abandoned farm house in rural Texas. While the theme of the show is lighthearted, the process was an experiment, as we gave control of the exhibition over to the crowd. Some of the most obvious questions/concerns we had were: Would the submitters with the most Instagram followers win? Are there certain “styles” of photography that will be more popular over others? Would the exhibition be filled with cats?
After Sophie Gamand’s pit bull portraits were selected for this show, we started following the Hempstead Animal Shelter on Facebook (where Adrienne, one of the pit bulls selected for our show, is sadly still looking for a forever home). After months of reading the stories of these dogs, many of them pit bulls who have been abused and then abandoned, we’ve decided to give our proceeds from the sale of all prints in this show to the shelter. For inquiries about purchasing a print, please email: [email protected].
Participating artists include:
Andrea Bakacs, Federico Ciamei, Ramsay de Give, Brooke DiDonato, Mediha DiMartino, uurko Dyachyshyn, Jon Feinstein, Fiona Filipidis, Sophie Gamand, Kari Herer, Winky Lewis, Kevin McCullum, Emma McEvoy, Ruairidh McGlynn, Yigithan Özden, Liam Sinnott, Elizabeth Stowe, Kate Sweeney, Hajdu Tamas, Meg Wachter, Sarah Wilmer, and Thomas Wilson.
© Sophie Gamand
Adrienne, Flower Power, Pit Bulls of the Revolution
12 x 12 inches
Open Edition
$100 (All proceeds to Hempstead Town Animal Shelter)
© Sophie Gamand
Mami, Flower Power, Pit Bulls of the Revolution
12 x 12 inches
Open Edition
$100 (All proceeds to Hempstead Town Animal Shelter)
© Kevin McCollum
Sheep – Lewis & Harris Auction Mart, Steinish, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland
11 x 17 inches
Open Edition
$150 (40% of proceeds to Hempstead Town Animal Shelter)
© Fiona Filipidis
Kilchurn Castle
11 x 11 inches
Edition of 5
$400 (40% of proceeds to Hempstead Town Animal Shelter)
© Ruairidh McGlynn
Alone in the deserts of Qatar
7 x 7 inches
Edition of 10
$250 (40% of proceeds to Hempstead Town Animal Shelter)
© Sarah Wilmer
Untitled
11 x 14 inches
Edition of 20
$400 (40% of proceeds to Hempstead Town Animal Shelter)
© Sarah Wilmer
Untitled
11 x 14 inches
Edition of 20
$400 (40% of proceeds to Hempstead Town Animal Shelter)
© Ramsay de Give
Untitled
8 x 10 inches
Open Edition
$600 (40% of proceeds to Hempstead Town Animal Shelter)
© Hajdu Tamas
Untitled
10 x 14 inches
Edition of 5
$250 (40% of proceeds to Hempstead Town Animal Shelter)
© Meg Wachter
Untitled, 2014
11 x 17 inches
Single Edition
$300 (40% of proceeds to Hempstead Town Animal Shelter)
© Yurko Dyachyshyn
Horses
8 x 10 inches
Open Edition
$199 ($50 of proceeds to Hempstead Town Animal Shelter)
© Andrea Bakacs
Pink Bush
8 x 10 inches
Edition of 10
$400 (40% of proceeds to Hempstead Town Animal Shelter)
© Thomas Wilson
Chilumpha Village, Malawi
11 x 14 inches
Edition of 2
$350 (40% of proceeds to Hempstead Town Animal Shelter)
© Winky Lewis
Lolie and Filipendula
10 x 10 inches
Edition of 10
$600 (40% of proceeds to Hempstead Town Animal Shelter)
© Kari Herer
Insect no. 8
11 x 14 inches
Edition of 10
$350 (40% of proceeds to Hempstead Town Animal Shelter)
© Federico Ciamei
Grigio (from the series AZ Milano)
7.5 x 10 inches
Edition of 25
$75 (40% of proceeds to Hempstead Town Animal Shelter)
© Yigithan Ozden
Vitreous Veil
8 x 10 inches
Edition of 50
$100 (40% of proceeds to Hempstead Town Animal Shelter)
© Liam Sinnott
Rural Apocalypse
11 x 14 inches
Edition of 10
$250 (40% of proceeds to Hempstead Town Animal Shelter)
© Jon Feinstein
Untitled, 2014
11 x 14 inches
Edition of 10
$300 (40% of proceeds to Hempstead Town Animal Shelter)
© Kate Sweeney
I Feel Through You
11 x 14 inches
Edition of 10
$300 (40% of proceeds to Hempstead Town Animal Shelter)
© Mediha DiMartino
Fox
7 x 7 inches
Edition of 30
$300 (40% of proceeds to Hempstead Town Animal Shelter)
© Emma McEvoy
Oneness
11 x 11 inches
Open Edition
$110 (40% of proceeds to Hempstead Town Animal Shelter)
© Elizabeth Stowe
Cerberus of the Plains
8 x 5 inches
Edition of 10
$300 (40% of proceeds to Hempstead Town Animal Shelter)