KRISTINA LOGGIA
26 SEPTEMBER —
10 NOVEMBER 2024
KRISTINA LOGGIA
RIVER
MAYA FRODEMAN GALLERY
RIVER
RIVER presents a series of twelve photographs, captured with a medium format film camera at the Snake River Bridge and surrounding area, known as Emily's Pond Levee. These photographs tell a story of isolation and connectedness, integral human experiences amplified by a time of uncertainty. With the iconic Teton range as her backdrop—Loggia’s home for many years—she was drawn to document the characters who buzzed about Emily’s Pond, a popular recreational and meeting place for the inhabitants of Jackson Hole. Loggia captured both the interpersonal and the solitary, the active and the idle moments of strangers, each interwoven by the shared experience of the pandemic. The result of her quietly discerning and meditative eye is a bewitchingly captured discourse on the tension of that time in the face of humans’ elemental longing for connection- be it with others or to the sublime natural landscape.
“During the pandemic, I would walk Emily’s Pond very often, and it was beautiful of course, but there was also something else- for me… I was just struck by this feeling that was there-thisisolation,thisseparation.”
Loggia writes about the project: “ RIVER is a project I made during the coronavirus pandemic. I left New York City on March 15th, 2020, thinking I would be in Wyoming for two weeks. However, as isolation continued for nearly a year, I ended up staying much longer. In Jackson, I was able to take walks while always keeping a distance from others. I often walked by the Snake River near Emily’s Pond and as I did, I became captivated by the people I observed, and my sense that they seemed to be looking for
the same things I was: a connection to the landscape of the place and the landscape of the new social reality in which we found ourselves, a connection that felt more and more and more elusive as the pandemic wore on. The images in this series, taken with a medium format camera, capture the unease I felt and saw around me. A woman sits by a pond seeming to be in a meditative position, yet she seems preoccupied with her phone. A group of young people keep their distance forming a human triangle. A man swims downstream and seems almost lost in the river's current. All these images are expressions of the tension not only between people and space but also in the spaces between people.”
All these images are expressions of thetensionnotonlybetweenpeople andspacebutalsointhespacesbetweenpeople.”
Kristina Loggia’s photography practice
is marked by a deep understanding and reverence of the subjects she captures, blending personal history with broader cultural narratives. Loggia's approach to portrait photography is influenced by her childhood admiration for photographers like Harry Callahan, Diane Arbus, Dorothea Lange, and Margaret BourkeWhite. She believes that every aspect of what she captures holds importance to contextualizing her subject, a philosophy that guides her work. “No space is just a ‘space’, no object just an ‘object’. Everything has a history and holds meaning,” Loggia says about her approach to photography. Whether capturing celebrities or everyday individuals, in a world that is inundated with perfunctory images, Loggia’s work conveys an inherent honesty and authenticity.
Loggia’s early career in Los Angeles involved photographing actors' headshots, but she soon transitioned to portrait photography, learning the technical aspects from her peers.
This shift allowed her to develop a strong portfolio, leading to opportunities with publicists and magazine editors. Loggia's work is characterized by its immediacy and attention to detail, often incorporating the subjects' personal environments to add depth to their portraits. Her photographs embody importance of capturing honest, meaningful images. Her love for photography has been a lifelong journey, deeply rooted in her early experiences and inspirations. Through her work, Loggia continues to explore and document the intricate details that define human experiences and connections.
“Nospaceisjusta‘space’,noobject justan‘object’.Everythinghasahistoryandholdsmeaning,”
Loggia's sustained fascination with the American landscape is evident in her ongoing project "Cross Country," where she captures the vast and varied scenery of the United States. Her time living in Wyoming has further fueled this passion, and she views her drives across the country as a form of meditation and artistic exploration.
In 2001, Loggia embarked on a significant project, "Apron Chronicles: A Patchwork of American Recollections," which began while she was finishing a two-year journey photographing young women in rodeo pageantry. Collaborating with freelance writer EllynAnne Giesel, Loggia photographed women with personal connections to aprons, capturing diverse subjects such as a 111-year-old mother, a Holocaust survivor, and a biology professor from Mali. This project, comprising 46 environmental portraits and accompanying stories, has become nationally recognized as a nostalgic and thought-provoking traveling exhibition, exhibited at the Women’s Museum in Dallas TX, Channing peak Gallery in Santa Barbara, CA, the Mercer Museum in Doylestown, PA, and the Phoenix Gallery in New York, NY, among others.
Born and raised in New York City, Loggia graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Initially following her family's tradition in acting, she studied at the Stella Adler Conservatory in both New York City and Los Angeles. However, a lecture by Ed Asner about the war in El Salvador ignited a childhood dream of becoming a war photographer. This inspiration led her to El Salvador with the Witness to Peace Program, where she discovered her passion for capturing truth through the lens of a camera.
Although marriage and motherhood eventually kept Loggia from war zones, she continued to pursue her love for documentary photography, resulting in extensive photographic studies. Her work has been featured in numerous magazines and news networks, including Time Magazine, The New Yorker, SPIN, Detour, ESPN, Fortune, Telegraph UK, CBS Sunday Morning, NPR’s All Things Considered, The
New York Times, among others. Her work has been shown across the United States in galleries and museums and is a part of several prominent private collections.
Archival pigment print on paper, edition of 8
41 x 41 inches
RIVER I, 2024
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RIVER II, 2024
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RIVER III, 2024
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RIVER IV, 2024
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RIVER V, 2024
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RIVER VI, 2024
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RIVER VII, 2024
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RIVER VIII, 2024
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RIVER IX, 2024
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RIVER X, 2024
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RIVER XI, 2024
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RIVER XII, 2024
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KRISTINA LOGGIA
American photographer, born in New York, NY EDUCATION
Sarah Lawrence College, BA
AWARDS
2007 International Color Awards: Nominee in People image of Ada Ashford
2005 National Press Photographers Association, 2005
Best of Photojournalism First Place: Still Photography, Magazine Portrait
Kristina Loggia's entry Penny Wong Schulz exhibited, Woman Made Gallery's 8th
International Open juried exhibition
2004 Phoenix Gallery 2004 National Juried Exhibition, Apron Chronicles, Solo Exhibition in the Phoenix Gallery Project Room
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, juried the 2004 competition.
2003 The 2003 Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize Committee, Apron Chronicles among 18 finalists from a field of 120 submissions.
Collaborators EllynAnne Geisel and Kristina Loggia received citation for "superior writing and photography samples," Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 River, Maya Frodeman Gallery, Jackson, WY
2015 Apron Chronicles, West Baton Rouge Museum, Port Allen, LA
2014 Apron Chronicles, Waupaca Area Public Library, Waupaca, WI
Apron Chronicles, Grout Museum of History and Science, Waterloo, lA
2013 Apron Chronicles, Mercer Museum, Doylestown, PA
2012 Apron Chronicles, The Charlotte Museum of History and Hezekiah Alexander Homesite, Charlotte, NC
2011 Apron Chronicles, National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, Fort Worth, TX
Apron Chronicles, Robert Berman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Group Show, curated by Angela Featherstone, at Bergamont Station Arts Center, Sanata Monica, CA
2010 Apron Chronicles, The Franklin G. BurroughsSimeon B. Chapin Art Museum, Myrtle Beach, SC
2009 Apron Chronicles, Pearce Collections Museum, Corsicana, TX
Apron Chronicles, Ironworld Discovery Center, Chisholm, MN
2008 Apron Chronicles, Grace Museum, Abilene, TX
Apron Chronicles, Stauth Memorial Museum, Montezuma, KS
New Work: Tree Series, Muse Gallery (now Maya Frodeman Gallery), Jackson, WY
New Work: Tree Series, Lost and Found Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Apron Chronicles, Sacramento Convention Center, Sacramento, CA
2006 Apron Chronicles, Artspace Gallery/Jackson
Hole Center for the Arts, Art Association of Jackson Hole, Jackson Hole, WY
Apron Chronicles, Nussbaum Center for Entrepreneurship, Greensboro, NC
2004
Apron Chronicles, Colorado Springs World Arena/Pikes Peak Center, Colorado Springs, CO
Apron Chronicles, The Women's Museum, Dallas, TX
Apron Chronicles, Robert Hoag Rawlings Public Library, Pueblo, CO
Apron Chronicles, Sangre De Cristo Art Center, Pueblo, CO
Apron Chronicles, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY
Apron Chronicles, Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
SELECTED PRESS
CBS Sunday Morning
NPR’s All Things Considered
The New York Times
TIME Magazine
New York Magazine
Telegraph Magazine UK
Spin
Detour
ESPN
Fortune
