Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao

LIRR, Hunter's Point, New York City, 2004

Website:

Julie Saul

Galleries:

Online Listing

Julie Saul Gallery, 2006, 2010

Getty Museum

Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2010

Queens Museum of Art, 2006

Group Exhibitions:

The Museum of Fine Arts

The Paul J. Getty Museum

Yancey Richardson Gallery

Recontres Internacionales de la Photographie

Blog: DLK Collection

Print Publications:

HABITAT 7, by Liao, Jeff Chien Hsing

Image published in: London, Barbara, John Upton, and Jim Stone. Photography. 10th ed. Boston: Prentice Hall, 2011. Print.

Bio: Saul Gallery

Born in Taiwan, 1977. Jeff Liao grew up in Taiwan and moved to Canada to attend high school. He relocated to his current home of New York City to complete his undergraduate degree at Pratt and receive his MFA at the School of Visual Arts. Liao is well-known for his large-scale panoramic photos that capture magnificent details of the urban and social environment of New York City.

Liao's first major and best known project is his Habitat 7 series, which won the first ever New York Times Magazine "Capture the Times" photography contest in 2005. In this project, Liao shot with a large format camera to create large-scale, color panoramic images of the ethnic communities that have grown around the IRT 7 train in Queens, New York. Using multiple exposures created in the same location and taken over the course of several hours, Liao constructed a compelling project that transcends the limits of documentary photography. This series reveals Liao's intensely personal journey through the borough of Queens, evident in the diverse range of subjectivities throughout his photographs.

Major Projects:

Survey (2008-2010)

Depth of Field (2007-2008)

Habitat 7 (2004-2005)

Interview of Artist: YouTube

Alex Prager

Desiree, 2008

Website:

http://www.alexprager.com/

Other online galleries:

MOMA

Yancy Richardson Gallery

Print Publications:

2005 The Book of Disquiet: A Story of the 7 Deadly Sins

Bio:

Alex Prager was born in Los Angeles in 1979. Prager's interest in art began in her adolescence, but it was in her early twenties that she began to focus on photography after being inspired by the work of William Eggleston. In keeping with her independent spirit, she eschewed art school and began taking photographs on her own, teaching herself equipment and lighting through trial and error. Prager has since contributed to a number of publications including New York Magazine and The New York Times Magazine, Dazed and Confused, Details, i-D and Tank. All the while, continuing to exhibit her work in various galleries worldwide.

From Michael Hoppen Gallery

Major Projects:

2007 Polyester

2008 The Big Valley

2010 Week-End

Lars Tunbjörk

Post Office, Stockholm

1998

Website:

http://www.amadorgallery.com/Lars_Tunbjork.html

Other online galleries:

http://www.agencevu.com/photographers/photographer.php?id=80

Writings/ Blogs:

http://5b4.blogspot.com/2007/06/i-love-boras-by-lars-tunbjork.html

http://www.archive.worldpressphoto.org/search/layout/result/indeling/detailwpp/form/wpp/q/ishoofdafbeelding/true/trefwoord/year/2004/trefwoord/category/Arts%20and%20Entertainment%20stories

Print Publications:

• 1987 Borderless photos
• 1989 If the state of affairs in Paris 200 years afterwards (text Herman Lindqvist )
• 1993 Land beside themselves (text Göran Greider and Thomas Tidholm )
• 2002 Office
• 2002 Home (text Goran Odbratt )
• 2003 Dom all. Reflections on social work (text Goran Odbratt)
• 2006 I Love Boras!
• 2007 Winter

Bio: http://www.amadorgallery.com/Tunbjork_PressRelease.pdf

Born in Stockholm in 1956, Tunbjörk spent the seventies photographing for several national newspapers and publi- cations in his native country. Tunbjörk has exhibited widely in his native Sweden, including a solo exhibition at the Moderna Museet. Additionally he has had solo and group shows across Europe and the US including an exhibition at the International Center of Photography in New York, featuring work from Landet Utom Sig.

Major Projects:

• 1993 Hasselblad Center , Gothenburg
• 1994 Nordic Museum , Stockholm
• 1995 International Center of Photography (Midtown), New York , USA
• 1998 Photographic Centre , Copenhagen , Denmark
• 1999 Galerie Vu , Paris , France
• 2002 Museum of Work , Norrköping
• 2002 Kulturhuset , Stockholm
• 2002''Home'', Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg
• 2004 Moscow Photo Biennale, Russia
• 2004''Folklore'', Borås Art Museum
• 2007 Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool , UK
• 2007''Winter / Home'', Museum of Modern Art
• 2011''LA Office, Shop, Wunderbaum'', Skellefteå Konsthall

Eliot Lee Hazel

Website:

http://eliotleehazel.com/

Writings/ Blogs:

500 Photographers

Box and Line

Beautiful Decay

Bio:

Eliot Lee Hazel, 1971, UK, is a California based photographer. He makes

gritty and cinematic images. They are well composed, stylish yet have a raw

edge. He has worked for various musicians like Morcheeba, Yeasayer and

Basement Jaxx and with actresses as Shannyn Sossamon. His images are

fragments of stories told, triggering the brain to start associating. Eliot's

images can be compared to cliffhangers, raising more questions than answers.

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Major Projects:

Museum of Contemporary Art- Designer Ryan Heffington

The Girl who Robbed a Bank

X on a String

Amy Stein

Window

Amy Stein's Website

Other Online Galleries:

Koch Gallery
Clamp Art
Art Net

Selected Online Articles:

Examiner - "Domesticated: Modern Dioramas of Our New Natural History"
PSFK - "The Surreal Photographs of Amy Stein"
Saatchi Online Magazine - "Congratulations to Saatchi Online Artist Amy Stein"
Gaurdian - "Photographer Amy Stein's Best Shot"

Selected Print Publications:

Photography: Tenth Edition, Upton and Stone, 2010
Domesticated, Photolucida, 2008
The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment, Rizzoli Press, 2011

Short Bio:

Amy Stein (b. 1970) is a photographer and teacher based in New York City. Her work explores our evolving isolation from community, culture and the environment. She has been exhibited nationally and internationally and her work is featured in many private and public collections such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Nevada Museum of Art, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art and the George Eastman House Photography Collection.

Amy was raised in Washington, DC, and Karachi, Pakistan. She holds a BS in Political Science from James Madison University and a MS in Political Science from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. In 2006, Amy received her MFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Stein teaches photography at Parsons The New School for Design and the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

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Major Projects:

Domesticated
Stranded

Michael Ackerman

Untitled, from End Time City, 1999

Website:
http://www.agencevu.com

Writings/ Blogs:
Interview with Webesteem Magazine
“Darkness Visible” exhibit at Gallery Lumiere
Interview with Artnet Magazine

Print Publications:
End Time City (1999)
Fiction (2001)
Half Life (2010)

Bio:
American. Born in 1967 in Tel Aviv. Lives in Berlin.

Since his first exhibition, in 1999, Michael Ackerman has made his mark by bringing a new, radical and unique approach. His work on Varanasi, entitled "End Time City," breaks away from all sorts of exoticism or any anecdotal attempt at description, to question time and death with a freedom granted by a distance from the panoramic – whose usage he renewed – to squares or rectangles.

In black and white, with permanent risk that led him to explore impossible lighting, he allowed the grainy images to create enigmatic and pregnant visions. Michael Ackerman seeks – and finds – in the world he traverses, reflections of his personal malaise, doubts and anguish. He received the Nadar Award for his book "End Time City" in 1999, and the Infinity Award for Young Photographer by the International Center of Photography in 1998.

Major Projects:
New York (1999)
End time City, Varanasi (1999)
Smoke (2000)
Fiction (2001)
Poland(1999-2007)
Half Life (2010)