№38 Featured Artists
Ghost Town: Antone Dolezal Mute: Cédric Dubus Skies of Suburbia: Colleen Cassidy Dead Water: Dana Stirling Full Sail: Kurt Jordan Disconnects: Rich Klein
In this issue of PH, our theme is along the lines of “seeing the unseen” or looking at what is usually overlooked. Places that are concealed by darkness, or long abandoned, or simply glimpses into a photographers perceptions that may otherwise have come and gone unobserved. Or simply the small details that are in plain sight, but go overlooked and unnoticed as people go about their busy day.
Cover Photo by Colleen Cassidy
There’s beauty to be found in these things and places, and even a sence of participating in the photographer’s vision, of their unique perspective on a moment or place. This is where the art takes place.
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Antone Dolezal Kurt Jordan Cédric Dubus Colleen Cassidy Rich Klein Dana Stirling
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ISSN: 1924-9424 Toronto, ON, Canada 2013
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Antone Dolezal Antone Dolezal is an artist and writer who makes work primarily about the American social landscape and its relationship with history and folklore. His photographs and words have been seen in numerous national and international publications including NPR, Oxford American and Huffington Post. His photographs have also been exhibited in various group and solo exhibitions within the United States and he recently published his first book with Search Party Press, entitled Spook Light Chronicles vol. 1. www.antonedolezal.com
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Ravaged during the dust bowl, the panhandle of Oklahoma was the epicenter of one of the worst man-made disasters in American history. Legendary cowboys and outlaws once roamed the no man’s land region of the high plains - the ghosts of the past becoming more intriguing than the realities of the present. It is a place imitating its own myth, choosing to once again find a communion with dust.
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Kurt Jordan As I’ve traveled and enjoyed the company of some very talented people who inspire me, the camera has always been over my shoulder or ready in its “go kit”. Landscape, street photography, and personal image journals have continued to occupy my lens from my teens into adulthood. I have indulged in both an art school education and a passion for making things with my hands; both have contributed to a very personal conversation about making images. The past twenty-five years I’ve documented my young family, my travels and recorded the work of the interior millwork business my wife and I created. Photography assignments for architects, artists and designers were part of the mix, with publication in Sunset Magazine, Phoenix Home and Garden, Architectural Record and other magazines. I enjoyed a hiatus, something wonderful, when my family and I took up sailing. After three years of living on the water in Central America and the Caribbean we returned to land, to building things, ready for the next stage in each of our lives. In 2009 I turned full time to photography to make images of architecture, landscape and the spaces I find myself lucky enough to have entered with the camera. www.kurtjordanphotography.com
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Cédric Dubus Cédric Dubus’s journey into the universe of photography starts during his adolescence. He collects photographs of skaters who he admires to pin on his bedroom wall. His interest is then pursued into the laboratory. He works with rigour and precision. During this training, Cédric enters into the world of advertising photography where during ten years he focuses on the object, mainly in the studio. Once again, he meets the technical demands through an almost clinical approach. This legacy has continued and is evident through the composition of certain series or shots. Cédric’s hobbies are travelling, literature and he is also lured by art. He is self-taught and passionate about developing his work. From the early 2000s, he has been furiously taking photos, been interested in contemporary designers and explored the history of photography. He has also broadened his horizons via authors, photographs and established artists such as Klavdij Sluban and Diana Lui. Cédric has forged his own identity having explored and admired the work of the American school from the 50’s and 70’s with artists such as Ray K. Metzker, Gary Winogrand or Robert Frank, or the Japanese school such as Hitoshi Fugo and Shomei Tomatsu. Amongst his contemporaries, he appreciates Nadav Kander, Alex Soth, Christian Patterson and Rinko Kawauchi. The list remains open without a fixed or rigid style barrier. Particularly curious, he encounters on the Internet a whole host of likeminded emerging photographers. In 2007, he started his first series, “Where Did the Night Fall” in black and white. Since 2009 he has devoted himself to his own creations and regularly participates in exhibitions such as the festival “Transphotographiques” in Lille and “Transfotografia” in Gdansk in 2011. His work has been recognised by critics and has been published in specialist press such as: Réponse- Photo (Nouveau Regard); Wadmag.com; Le Journal de la Photographie; Click Clk; Leica Store blog; Gup, This is paper... In the same vein, he created the group of photographers Cascade Collective. He has just completed a series in colour which marks a new stage in the development of the creation, MUTE, presented here. The semantic game which is present in the title (in English: mute and in French: transform) synthesizes poetically lucid the ripening process that characterizes the artistic career of its author, and his personal aesthetics both radical and delicate. www.cedricdubus.com
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In the silence, in the solitude that often leads to the observation, is the reality of what I want to photograph. Photographing allows me to remind me imprecise and silent substance of dreams. It is in this dumb process that appeared the quietly spectacular. MUTE* is a semi-real place in my consciousness. I use reality to create my own story. My imaginary world thus embodies the look that I put on him. One picture is enough. No need for a sound. MUTE.
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Colleen Casidy After nightfall, when the world has gone to sleep and the windows of houses have all gone dark, I am just setting up my tripod. In a time when all mystery seems to be lost, my work strives to lift the veil of the banality of our every day lives and surroundings. I graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where I concentrated in conceptual sculpture and photography. My photo series “Skies of Suburbia� was shot over the duration of one summer after moving back to the culturally barren suburbs of New Jersey. I wanted to illuminate my lackluster environment through the introduction of imagined supernatural beings beneath brilliant sweeping skies. colleencassidy.foliohd.com
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Rich Klein I see images, odd things, incongruities, literally everywhere in the world and these things fascinate me. They illustrate the inconsistencies and illogic of our lives, our culture, our society and ourselves. New project ideas occur to me all the time so my list of current projects is ever restless. I shoot film almost exclusively. Film slows me down, helps me clarify my thoughts and vision for the image. That slower approach works for me and makes me a better photographer. http://www.flickr.com/photos/iseeimages/
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Dana Stirling The Dead Sea is a salt lake with no way out. Surrounding this unique lake grew an industry of pleasure, beauty, healing and myth. People come from all over the world to experience the wonder of the Dead Sea. Kibuts Kalia is one of many small cooperative settlements, hotels and resorts, along the sea that have tried to form a haven from the desert’s abyss. Kalia was well known for their water amusement park, the Atraktzia (attraction – word that was borrowed from English), as an oasis of sweet water in the sea of death. Many Israeli’s share memories of Atraktzia as part of their tradition of family vacations and weekends. Years after, In one of my trips down south I had my first encounter with Atraktzia. It was hot, dry and colorless, a pale reflection of its past glory. The once amazing water park stood empty, abandoned and waterless. After doing some research I learned that in the year 2000 the water park was shutdown due to the political tension in the area, as well as financial and legal problems. Since then, for 13 years, it has stood empty. The stories of others , on which I based my memories, of the place I have never visited, were far from the place I could now see for myself. And yet, I still feel nostalgic in regards to the fall of the attractions from its glory; not owning even one true memory of Atraktzia haven’t prevented me from yearning for its past. As I photographed the park it became smaller, paler and lifeless. In this body of work I do not try to recreate the park, or resurrect it, but document a place that so many people had strong feelings for as children, and try and understand that glorious period that I had never experienced.
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Dana Stirling was born 1989 in Jerusalem. Currently Based in NYC. A B.A graduate (2013) in Photographic Communication at Academic College Haddash Jerusalem. Dana was one of 10 finalists at Saachi gallery, and won a Google photography prize 2012. She is currently an intern at the Hasted Kreautker gallery and a TA at the ICP teen academy. danastirling1.wix.com/danastirling#!home
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