group show 64:
Tropes Gone Wild
About the Artists

Mircea Albutiu is a freelance documentary photographer and filmmaker based in Romania. He is working since 2011 on two projects in the backstage, one about dancers and the other about Jazz musicians. Both projects could be published as photo books. His next project is an installation which will be produced in Portugal in the timeframe 2020 January to April.

Giorgia Bellotti was born in Bologna, Italy. Since she was a child, she has had a natural talent for art, in particular painting, thanks to which she created several works on commission. In 2012 she attended a course to learn the basics of photography and she realized that photography was the artistic dimension that fitted her best. After going through intimate and intense life experiences, she increasingly felt the need to tell about herself by using photography as a means to express her emotions. She works with digital cameras, although she always carries a disposable analogue camera in her bag ready for when she needs it. In the future, she intends to carry out other projects about her emotions.

Antoni Benavente began his artistic career in the nineteen-eighties, having studied Visual Art and Graphic Design in the Municipal School of Fine Arts of Lleida. His work has been selected in diverse national and international photographic exhibitions and festivals. His artistic work forms part of both public and private collections. He currently works and lives in Lleida and is represented by Petit Galeria.

Karen Bullock blends documentary & fine art photography. Her series, “Presence Obscured” was recently selected for Photolucida’s Critical Mass Top 200. Another project, “See Me”, which she plans to return to shortly, was included in the 2018 Rfotofolio Selections. In 2017 she was awarded a grant for her work in portraiture by the Mobile Arts Council in Alabama.

Ken Buslay, born in 1987, lived in Berlin for many years before leaving the city and photography school behind to live a life without a place to come home to. For four years, he has been hitchhiking, living in a van, then a car, and different communities while curiously photographing the world and its humans with analog cameras and lots of love.

Holly Chang is a Toronto based artist. She is interested in exploring dualisms and hybridity through her work.

Daniel Cronin is a photographer living and working in Portland, Oregon. Born in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1983. He spent most of his life in the Bay Area. Attended Sonoma State University and studied music, philosophy, and studio art with an emphasis on photography.

Alexander Diaz is an Associate Professor of Photography at the University of North Florida. Diaz’s artwork is a marriage of documentary photography and conceptual art. He utilizes photography to express his concerns and to comment on environmental issues, consumerism, religion, and the particulars of place. His work has been exhibited at many institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art/Jacksonville, Norton Museum of Art, and Mobile Museum of Art.

Konstantina Drosi is a new photographer based in Athens, Greece. She is currently having two in-progress projects. The first one includes still-lives photographed in a specific monochromatic way while the other one is a narration made of self-portraits. She was part of two group shows in the last year.

Conor Elliott Fitzgerald's photography practice began while serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras and El Salvador. Making images started out as a way to document his life as a health educator, but evolved into a tool for processing the legacy of colonialism in Central America and his connection (having worked for a government agency) to US foreign policy. Fitzgerald currently resides in Tucson, Arizona, where he works as an artist and educator.

Todd Forsgren uses photography to examine themes of ecology, perceptions of landscape, and social justice while striving to strike a balance between art history and natural history. To do so, he employs a range of approaches, from documentary strategies to experimental techniques.

Derek Gardner is a multi-media artist living in the tristate area. He enjoys sharing images that he once viewed as "un-postable," and struggles with social media's trends and curated feeds. Derek sets monthly, quarterly, and yearly output goals on his work. This way he is able to start and complete projects — and always improve his work.

Laura Glabman is a fine-art photographer living in Hewlett, NY. Raised on Long Island, Glabman has remained there to live, work and to raise her own family. She attended college to study art with an emphasis on printmaking and photography at Syracuse University and the School of Visual Arts but she left school early to enter into her family sign making business. She worked there for twenty-five years as a sign painter and graphic artist. She is now retired and is pursuing photography and printmaking once again as a means to express herself. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions in NYC, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Oregon, and Miami. Her work has also been featured on the photography blogs Feature Shoot, aCurator, Muybridge's Horse and Humble Arts.

Jeff Hall has been working in the visual arts for 56 years in drawing, holography, photography, and digital media. He has worked in nearly every cliche genre, from extreme closeups to shooting nearly every phase of the moon. He lives near the beach.

Kevin Hoth has recently shown in the Small Works exhibition at Medium Photo Festival, in Portfolio Showcase 12 at The Center For Fine Art Photography, and in Time Zero and Beyond at the R.I. Center for Photography. He was also a Top 200 finalist in Critical Mass 2019. He has taught photography and design courses at numerous universities and teaches at CU Boulder. His work is represented by Walker Fine Art in Denver.

David Vades Joseph (b.1986) is an Afro-Caribbean photographer based in New York City. Born and raised in Harlem, New York, Vades began his journey into photography when he was only a boy. He attended the School of Visual Arts where he obtained his BFA in Photography. Influenced by the imagery and philosophy of contemporary Japanese photographers of the 60s-80s, along with 18th-19th century paintings, Vades is known for his intrinsic works of Black America and the Afro-Caribbean diaspora. His works have been published in The New York Times, Der Grief, Paper Journal Magazine, Highsnobiety, and Humble Arts Foundation. Vades has also exhibited works at Fashion Institute of Technology, The Mural Pavilion at Harlem Hospital, Equity Gallery, and Smack Mellon.

Adam Leitzel is an artist based in Lancaster Pennsylvania. He currently is enrolled at the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design as a photography and video major and is in his senior year. Adam’s work tends to focus on interpersonal struggles, and his place within society. He has exhibited locally in his region as well as internationally. After graduating he plans to take some time off before applying for graduate school.

Ilias Lois (b.1994) is an artist born and based in Athens, Greece. He studied photography at the Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts, Athens University of West Attica and at Accademia di belle Arti de Venezia. His work has been presented in international festivals and institutions, including the Benaki Museum, Thessaloniki Archaeological Museum, Thessaloniki Museum of Photography and Klompching Gallery of NY. He is curating the Unfold and he is co-editing the contemporary photography magazines Velvet Eyes and Aldebaran. He has been awarded the Lensculture’s Emerging Talent Award 2018. In 2019, he published his first photobook Golden Peak.

Tasha Lutek is a photography preservation specialist and artist. She also collaborates with Dana Bell on the ongoing project "From the Workroom" a study of the daily life of the museum employee. She received her MA in Collections Management and Photographic Preservation from Ryerson University in conjunction with the George Eastman Museum, her BFA in Photography from Parsons School of Design, and her BA in Arts in Context from Eugene Lang College.

Hannah Lynch lives and works in Minneapolis and has been making photographs for 20+ years. She is especially drawn to documentary and portrait work, often featuring children and animals in “urban-naturalist” settings. Given the subject matter, these images sometimes veer dangerously close to Tropetown, but Lynch is confident that most manage to transcend cliché.

Georgia Matsamaki was born in Crete, Greece. She holds a BA in Graphic Design and she’s currently studying Photography. Her work has been featured in worldwide competitions and open calls. She currently lives and works in Crete as a graphic and set designer.

Emma Rose Milligan is an emerging visual artist from NYC and a recent SVA MFA Photo and Video graduate. Her work raises issues relating to politics, power dynamics, gender relations, and how language and image intertwine. Utilizing different mediums, her intention is to make work that will invoke, evoke, or provoke.

Marcy Palmer’s work circles around themes of home, beauty, nature, and science. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in several different spaces such as The Griffin Museum of Photography, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Watershed Media Centre (UK), and other venues. Marcy has an MFA in Photography & Related Media from the School of Visual Arts and a BS in Studio Art from Skidmore College. She currently resides in Dallas, TX, USA.

Ilya Petrov (b. 1986) is a visual artist, photographer. Lives and works in Moscow, Russian Federation. Studied photography in the Fotodepartment (St. Petersburg), The Rodchenko Art School (Moscow). He is a member of The Russian Union of Art Photographers.

Anastasia Samoylova is a Miami-based artist. She presented her solo museum exhibition FloodZone at USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa in 2020. In 2019 the book of the project was published by Steidl. Her series Landscape Sublime explores how social-media images and the repetition of certain motifs inform an understanding of natural phenomena. In 2020 the project will be displayed at the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum and Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany; as part of the Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie.

Mark Sawrie is an Associate Professor at Ball State University. Courses of instruction have included: all levels of photography, video art, digital imaging and film criticism. He has exhibited: photography, video, drawing and assemblage-sculpture. Some of his more influential experiences include: tobacco cutter, product photographer, medical photographer, construction worker and pizza delivery. Know as a loner who loves people and a funny-curmudgeon with a heart of fools-gold, he is also rumored to be a cat-whisperer.

James Scheuren is an artist who works in photography. He has been a resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Vermont Studio and has shown both nationally and internationally. He teaches at the University of Virginia.

Allison Schukis is an artist living and studying in Eugene, Oregon, and is currently pursuing a BFA in Art and a BA in Art History, at the Robert D. Clark Honors College (University of Oregon). They work mainly in 2 dimensions, exhibiting favoritism toward analogue photography, but also use performance and installation techniques. Their current work explores gendered (mis)representations sourced from art history and literature, found-objects and their classicisms, and assertions of authorship in the self portrait.

Aline Smithson is a visual artist, educator, and editor based in Los Angeles. She has had over 40 solo shows and her work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and PDN. In 2019, her work was selected for the Taylor Wessing Prize at the National Portrait Gallery in London and for the Critical Mass Top 50. Kris Graves Projects published her book on Los Angeles, which is now sold out.

James Talbot is an artist and photographer working out of Utah. Searching for innocuous subject matter, his work seeks to mythologize places of personal significance. Through visual details of colors, shadows, and other motifs, he hopes to capture a numinous spirit that contributes to a collective memory of those places.

Danielle Mari Terblanche is a photographer and visual artist from South Africa. She is interested in identity, flexible contradictions and the narratives people choose to tell. She is self-taught and has participated in several exhibitions and publications in South Africa and abroad.

Jesse Untracht-Oakner is a NYC based photographer who specializes in Portraits, Fashion editorials, Look Books, and Art Installations. An R.I.T. Alumni who's work has been shown around the world and is in permanent collections at MoCA Sydney Australia, MOMA NYC and The New Museum. Jesse has one old dog and two kittens.

Fernanda Venegas is a Professional Photographer and artist at heart. She has done film photography projects for bands and record labels, she also has worked in photographic studies as an assistant and has studied photochemical and technical processes of the 19th century. Parallel to her professional work, she develops her artistic practice, making photographs on every trip and corner of the world, in addition to experimenting with techniques such as cyanotype. She belongs to Colectivo Narval, a photographic collective in which they make self-published fanzines.

Magdalena Wutkowska (b. 1986, Poland) attempts to visually describe her personal perspective on people’s relationship with their surroundings and processes associated with it, such as emotions, alteration, choice, chaos and displacement. She focuses on landscape-altered people, man-altered landscapes, and the connection between human inner and outer setting. Although mostly self-taught, in her photographic practice she experiments with a variation of different materials and techniques.

Primoz Zorko (1983) is an independent visual artist, designer and photographer, working in the fields of commercial and art projects. He has exhibited his work in independent and group exhibitions internationally, with exhibitions in Barcelona (MACBA, DHUB, Mutuo Centro de Arte), Venice (Venice Biennale - Fondazione Querini Stampalia), Hamburg (Affenfaust Galerie), New York (OTS3), Toyama (The Museum of Modern Art), London (Doomed Gallery Dalston etc.), Vienna (Künstlerhaus Vienna), Amsterdam (Waag Society), Basel (Museum Tinguely), and elsewhere.