LENSCULTURE EMERGING TALENT AWARD EXHIBITION : KLOMPCHING GALLERY

Untitled IV © Victoria J. Dean

Winner, LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards 2017

Candy Beach © Bambi No Muere

Winner, LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards 2017

Ti Pinsik, Aux Poteaux, Gonaïves, Haiti © Thomas Freteur

Juror’s Pick, LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards 2017

Zoran, 10, and Zia, 13, rehearsing for a show they will perform for their parents small family Circus “Les Pêcheurs de Rêves” (The Fishermen of Dreams) August 2017, Avignon © Stephanie Gengotti, Winner, LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards 2017 

 Cabin. Kazanlak, Bulgaria, 2015 © Vladimir Vasilev

Winner, LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards 2017

Morning Prayer, Lingshed School, isolated from the world by the towering peaks of the Northern Himalayas, between Ladakh and Zanskar © Jarek Kotomski, Winner, LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards 2017

LENSCULTURE EMERGING TALENT AWARD EXHIBTION

Klompching Gallery and LensCulture present the laureates of the 2017 LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards. The 50 photographs are a selection of the strongest and most memorable work sent in by photographers working in over 160 countries around the world. You'll discover serious documentary and photojournalism projects, as well as our aesthetic celebrations of the interplay of light, color, form and texture, creative work from all parts of the globe. A single photograph has been chosen from each award-winning series, curated by Darren Ching and Debra Klomp Ching.

LensCulture Emerging Talent Award Exhibition

March 7 – 17, 2018  

 Reception: Thursday, March 8, 2018

The Opening Reception is Changed Due to the storm about to hit NYC Postponed to Thursday, March 8, 2018 6pm-8pm. Darren and Debra will be at the gallery Wednesday, 11am–3pm to welcome any photographers wishing to drop by.

 Klompching Gallery

89 Water Street

Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY

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Check out all of the LensCulture 2017 Competition Winners

RICHARD GERE: Talks About Photography in La Lettre de la Photographie's Weekend Agenda

Giza, 2005
Courtesy of the Gere Foundation
Photograph (c) Richard Gere

Cairo, 2010
Courtesy of the Gere Foundation
Photograph (c) Richard Gere

I was in this old Mosque and I just turned to my left and that shot was there. All the angles were right, all the lines were moving, everything was right. All I had to do was take a half step to my left. Everything lined up and I knew that was it. That was the shot...That’s a very complicated photograph; the dark areas, light areas, white against black, black against white. It’s very complicated and that’s a very straight...digital print made for me by John Paul Caponigro at his place up in Maine. – Richard Gere, Le Journal de la Photographie 4.30.2011

Cover Photograph: Pilgrim, Zansker, 1983
Pilgrim, Bulfinch Press, 1997

Richard’s photographs from “Pilgrim” are clearly made from the heart. They are not only pictures that you are informed by – but they are images you feel. Richard’s images speak to our soul by exuding spirituality, compassion, and atmosphere. Richard’s “Pilgrim” photographs formed by his experiences, defines what he represents, and documents his social, spiritual, and cultural encounters. The underlining thread of his photographs is his fondness for the people of Tibet as well as his extraordinary ability to document the livelihood of the enduring people who reside within these unfamiliar and mysterious places with dignified simplicity. – David Fahey, Fahey/Klein Gallery

Lobsang Tenzing, Daramsala, 1981
Photograph © Richard Gere, Courtesy of Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles

Ulan Bator (The Arrival of His Holiness), Mongolia, 1995
Photograph © Richard Gere, Courtesy of Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles

Angels, Shekar Monastery, Tibet, 1993
Photograph © Richard Gere, Courtesy of Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles

There are usually three shots. If it’s a difficult light situation like this where the shutters going to be open one, two, three seconds – from my own experience of my work, one of those three is going to be the one I want. It’s not always that one is sharper than another; whatever it is, one’s going to feel right to me if I do three of them. Sometimes it’s so dark, I can’t even see it, and I’m just sensing that there’s something there. There’s one in particular I took in a Monastery. It’s these two angels that are hovering there. (Angels, Shekar Monastery, Tibet, 1993) I could barely see anything when I took that shot, but I knew that the shot was there and I knew I had to take it “now.” – Richard Gere, Le Journal de la Photographie 4.30.2011

Le Journal de la Photographie, 4.30.11

Photography can open a doorway that can lead us into a new world, expands our horizons, and shows us exciting and challenging possibilities. Richard’s photographs allow us to engage the world and renew our perspective by reinterpreting what we think we know – leading us through that doorway. – David Fahey, Fahey/Klein Gallery

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I spoke with Richard Gere for Le Journal de la Photographie about his photographs, his book and exhibitions, and about his extensive photography collection...read the entire Interview here

Le Journal de la Photographie

RICHARD GERE: Pilgrim

Pilgrim, Zanskar, 1983 • Fahey/Klein Gallery
Photograph (c) Richard Gere /All Rights Reserved

Mongolian Warrior, Mongolia 1995 • Fahey/Klein Gallery
Photograph (c) Richard Gere /All Rights Reserved

The alchemy of photography is mysterious and unstable...it's component parts of grain shift like smoke in the wind and somehow emerge as an image with only an illusion of beingness – Richard Gere

FAHEY/KLEIN GALLERY
An Interview With Richard Gere

Richard Gere at Erdene Zuu, Karakorum, Mongolia, 1995
Photograph (c) Elizabeth Paul Avedon

The Gere Foundation