DAVID ELLINGSEN: Falling Boundries

 

 Lance-tooth Crosscut Saw. The Last Stand series © David Ellingsen

 

Falling Boundary. Falling Boundries series © David Ellingsen

Undercut. Falling Boundries series © David Ellingsen

 Selective Memory. Falling Boundries series © David Ellingsen

Bucking Up. Falling Boundries series © David Ellingsen

David Ellingsen is an award winning Canadian photographer creating images that speak to the relationship between humans and the natural world. He works predominantly in long-term projects with a focus on climate, biodiversity and the forest.

"As a youngster on Cortes Island, in Canada’s Pacific Northwest, I walked daily through the woods to catch the school bus, passing by remnants of the old growth forest. These giant looming stumps, peering through the second growth trees as far as I could see, seemed an ominous presence. They have always remained in my memory..."

"With an immigrant family history intimately connected with the forest as a backdrop, Falling Boundaries explores deforestation in British Columbia over the last century as it weaves together threads of resource extraction and the reverberating effects of colonialism within the deepening environmental crisis..." – Falling Boundry series. Read more here

www.davidellingsen.com  Follow: @davidellingsenphoto  

Madrona Gallery, Victoria, BC

LAUREN HENKIN: The Park at Foley Gallery

 

The Park 31 © Lauren Henkin

"One photograph stuck with me the most (This Park #31). There was something about the way the branches coexists with the building’s reflection.  There was a harmony between the built and the natural that I hadn’t expected to see in New York. I became very aware, and very sensitized to the architecture that lives on the periphery of the park.  And scale—the extreme differences between the buildings and us...." read more here

The Park 4 © Lauren Henkin

"For me, it’s as much about seeing the light on the softball field as it is about the softball. It’s as much about the deep grooves in the rocks as it is about the rock-climbing.  It’s as much about the sun on your back as it is about sunbathing. My work is not so much about subject.  It’s about developing an intimate relationship with a viewer so that there can be some kind of emotional response to the photographs...." read more here

Read my Interview with Lauren Henkin

on L'Oeil de la Photographie here

Lauren Henkin: The Park   

April 30-June 8, 2014

Foley Gallery

 97 Allen Street, NYC

The Park 35 © Lauren Henkin

ELLEN JANTZEN: Disturbing The Spirits

Let The Others Follow

 © Ellen Jantzen

Toward Profusion

 © Ellen Jantzen

Into The Unknown
 © Ellen Jantzen

Encounter

 © Ellen Jantzen

"In Disturbing the Spirits I am using imagery to convey my feelings about the state of nature, the nature of trees, and how to express their connection to past, present and future. By obscuring a portion of the image through a veil, I strive to heighten the remaining reality through discovery and reflection."

–Ellen Jantzen

Disturbing the Spirits
 

These are a few images from Ellen Jantzen's newest series, Disturbing The Spirits. This series deals with both reality and time (past/present/future) and her growing attachment to the healing powers of the natural environment.

Trees teach us about belonging; they remind us that life doesn’t need permission to prevail. Trees are sanctuaries. If we listen closely, we can learn the ancient law of life. They are seen as powerful symbols of growth, decay and resurrection.They have played a prominent role in many folktales and legends and have been given deep and sacred meanings.

But, a tree’s longevity can lull us into a false sense of immortality. It is this very impermanence that I long to understand through my photographic explorations. There is an ineffable natural beauty.... too great to be expressed or de-scribed in words." (Text: Ellen Jantzen)

Ellen Jantzen was awarded PX3's First Prize in the 2013 Prix de la Photographie Paris Competition for her series Transplanting Reality; Transcending Nature.

Ellen Jantzen.com

Represented by the Susan Spiritus Gallery

MONROE GALLERY: AIPAD Booth 419

  I Am A Man

 Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tennessee, March 28, 1968

Photograph © The Withers Family Trust

Roller Coaster, Seaside Heights, New Jersey, Hurricane Sandy, 2012 

Photograph © Stephen Wilkes

Apple Tree illuminated by gas flaring, Susquehanna County, 2011 

("Fracking The Shale Play")  Photograph © Nina Berman

 Empire State Building During Black-Out in Lower Manhattan, 

Hurricane Sandy, 2012.  Photograph © Nina Berman

The Monroe Gallery of Photography Booth 419

And Photographer Bill Eppridge will be in attendance 

during the AIPAD Photography Show

 AIPAD
April 4 - April 7
Park Avenue Armory, Park Avenue at 67th Street

BRAD MOORE: Fahey/Klein

Rose Room, Tustin, California, 2008
Photograph (c) Brad Moore /All Rights Reserved

Trini Circle, Westminster, California, 2006

Photograph (c) Brad Moore /All Rights Reserved

Barbara & Brea, Fullerton, California, 2008
Photograph (c) Brad Moore /All Rights Reserved

Korean Methodist, Fullerton, California, 2008
Photograph (c) Brad Moore /All Rights Reserved

"These photographs were shot in modest, well-worn, suburban cities in central and inland Southern California. Built in the 1950s and 60s, these cities provided a new home and future to a post-war population. This is where I grew up and, after 25 years, I returned. The areas I remembered were fading away, and I was struck by the simultaneous growth and decline. Initially, it was the buildings that interested me; I shot them in formal, almost symmetrical compositions. Then I began shooting the surrounding shrubbery with the same architectural approach. I liked the way the buildings and plants worked together, so that is how the project evolved. I have opted to avoid traditional, documentary-style photography; instead I have photographed in primarily static compositions, reflecting change, irony and evolution."

Brad Moore’s photographs are included in the collection of SF MoMA, and exhibited at the Museum of Photographic Arts, (MOPA), San Diego. Read An Interview with Brad Moore by Barbara Tannenbaum, Director of Curatorial Affairs, the Akron Art Museum

Brad Moore Photographs
Fahey/Klein Gallery
July 15-Sept 4, 2010

ROBERT VOIT: Cell Phone Trees

Photograph (c) Robert Voit /All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Robert Voit /All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Robert Voit /All Rights Reserved

ROBERT VOITS NEW TREES is "a work-in-progress since 2003, of mobile phone masts in the guise of artificial trees erected in real space in the U.S., Great Britain, South Africa, Korea, Italy and Portugal pays superficial tribute to a diffuse creative will driven by a basic desire for conciliation. To visually compensate for the dangers of electro-smog, mobile phone masts are given plastic “magic hoods” which simulate nature so that they then appear in the landscape as idealized forms of vegetation. The broad range of camouflage outfits includes deciduous trees and conifers, pines, palms and huge cacti. A lucrative manufacturing industry specializing in these artificial trees has emerged with considerable future potential; currently it is gaining a foothold on the European continent." – Christoph Schaden

JAN 13 - MAR 6

ROBERT VOIT | NEW TREES
AMADOR GALLERY