East CoastGallery 10 G, New York, NYowner:
Jill Fortunoff Gerstenblatt http://www.gallery10g.comFirst reason to choose this gallery is its objective: "...a
stepping stone for emerging artists to help them get more exposure and recognition in the art world."
10 G features photographers and painters. It also deals with works from artists not represented by the gallery. The photography section is not very consistent, it rather attempts to show several different approaches: night land/cityscapes, collage, typologies, conceptual/performance, and the personal experience documentary reminiscent of the Jen Beckman's blog. All prints are color around the 30x40 size and format.
Kevin Cooley http://www.kevincooley.netLives and works in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and often times collaborator Bridget Batch.
He is primarily a photo and video artist who does freelance assignment work as well.
His artwork has been published in many magazines, most recently in Le Monde 2,
GEO Italy, and Bright Magazine. He is a recipient of The Aaron Siskind Fellowship and the Rema Hort Mann Grant. His work is also included in the permanent collection of the Harvard Business School.
The School of Visual Arts, M.F.A. Photography, New York, NY 2000
Lewis and Clark College, B.A. International Affairs, Portland, OR 1997
Review for "At the Light's Edge":
Kevin Cooley’s new photographs plunge directly into this Romantic tradition of landscape, and he enriches it with contemporary concerns. Nature is the muse, and man is the explorer. Breathtaking night views of American landscapes are illuminated by eerie distress signals, possibly messages coming from above or vice-versa. Light shooting through the sky highlights an endangered beauty and at the same time represents a divine or extraterrestrial phenomenon. Taking photographs, for Cooley, is a lonely job, infused with silence and meditation. This contemplative mood, along with a sense of wonder and fear, permeates the entire new body of work.
http://www.artcat.com/exhibits/7740
Ofer Wolbergerhttp://oferwolberger.com(b. 1976) is an artist who lives and works in New York City. He is the recipient of The Humble Arts Foundation Spring 2008 Grant for Emerging Photographers. He was a finalist for both the BMW Paris Photo Prize in 2008 as well as the Prix HSBC pour la Photographie in 2009. His photographs have been collected and exhibited internationally. In 2009 his project
Life with Maggie, was exhibited at Michael Hoppen Gallery in London and at C/O Berlin. Next year
Life with Maggie will be exhibited at VU in Quebec. He is currently working on a series of 12 self-published artists books collectively known as The Photographic Book Project.
Life with Maggie
(2007-Present)
Resembling a photographic travel diary or a personal photo album, Life with Maggie is the unique record of a character lost in time and place. 
Michael Mazzeo Gallery, New York, NYhttp://www.michaelmazzeo.comAccording to the statement in the gallery's web site, it is "one of the premier showcases of new and under-recognized talent in New York's Chelsea Gallery District, having awarded nine artists their first solo exhibitions in New York City and including nearly 100 others in group exhibitions. " It is exclusively a photography gallery, works vary but are consistent it their quest for something new and experimental - whether as a concept or process.
Caleb Charland -
Artist Review 7Dave Jordanohttp://www.davejordanophotography.com1974 B.F.A. Photography, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan.
Owned and operated a highly successful award winning freelance commercial photography studio in Chicago specializing in food and product advertising. Short list of clients include, Starbucks Coffee, Crate & Barrel, General Mills, Kellogg’s, McDonald’s, Wilson Sporting Goods, Sears, Quaker Foods, Dove, Kraft Foods, Suave , Timex, etc
Currently working as documentary and conceptual photographer.
West CoastKopeiking Gallery, Culver City, CAhttp://kopeikingallery.comPaul Kopeikin, owner and director
A photography gallery that deals with different types of photograph representing artists who are from emerging to very established. Also they sell works of unrepresented photographers. There is an open call for submissions with the friendly reminder that submissions are so many that no immediate answer should be expected (if any).
Thomas Wredehttp://thomas-wrede.deThomas Wrede’s internationally exhibited serial works often challenge our concept and relationship with nature, landscape and imagery. His series simultaneously trigger a sense of familiarity and unfamiliarity. Wrede’s choices of familiar scenes often induce a sense of nostalgia. However with the manipulation of the compositions and lighting effects of his photos, a feeling of uneasiness is inevitably evoked.
The idea behind Wrede’s work is aptly summarized by the artist regarding one of his series,
Real Landscapes : “The starting point of my photographic work is the human longing for nature and the mediation thereof. I question the relationships between constructed model and reality, between picture and copy.”
http://www.galerie-wagner-partner.comBio:
Thomas Wrede (born 1963) is a German
photographer.
Wrede was born in Iserlohn-Letmathe. He studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in
Münster from 1985–1991, Germany, where he was also teaching years later. In 1991 he was the student of Dieter Appelt in Salzburg and Berlin. He has been included in many exhibitions such as “Strange Paradise” at Städtische Galerie Iserlohn, 2005, “Seascapes. Am Meer” at
Goethe-Institut London and in Helsinki, 2006. „Tamed Nature“at Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen, 2005, in Germany. „Really True! The Assurance of Reality in Photography“ at Ruhrlandmuseum Essen, 2004, in Germany and „the Paradise of the Modern“ at
Bauhaus Dessau in Germany. Exhibitions in 2007: ”Real Landscapes” at Galerie Herrmann & Wagner, Berlin (27.04-16.06.2007) and the exhibition ”Von Oben und von Unten”, Akademie Franz Hitze Haus, Münster (15.01.2007-14.03-2007). He is presented by WAGNER + PARTNER in Berlin, by f5,6 in Munich and by Beck & Eggeling in Düsseldorf.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Thomas-Wrede/104060642965166
Edgar Martinswww.edgarmartins.com/Martins photographs the beaches bordering cities in Portugal and Iceland creating flattened and timeless images. As he explains: "These nighttime beach images are all about temporal experience - there is a kind of theatricality to them, a sense of observing an abandoned stage, or a stage awaiting some event." These moments bring the viewer to another world, yet he does not manipulate or stage any of his photographs. While these images convey a sense of solitude and emptiness, the manner in which they are composed fills the viewer with a sense of calm rather than abandonment. Nostalgic props of an imminent event or one in the recent past are also an important aspect of the work in this series. As a result of his positioning of the camera and use of natural ambient light, life size objects can seem minuscule. He plays with the notion of scale and composition to confuse the viewer, not knowing whether we are viewing an inhabitable space or simply model created in its form. Even though the figures and subjects of these images appear to be contrived and manipulated for the scene, they are almost all found by the artist.
Bio:
Portuguese by birth, Edgar Martins grew up in Macau, China, where he published his first novel
entitled 'Mäe, deixa-me fazer o pino'. In 1996 he moved to the UK, where he later completed an
MA in Photography and Fine Art at the Royal College of Art. He has exhibited extensively
throughout Asia, America and Europe and has received numerous awards for his photographic
and literary work.
His work is represented internationally in various high profile museums, public, corporate and
private collections.
His first book, 'Black Holes & Other Inconsistencies' was awarded the Thames & Hudson and RCA
Society Book Art Prize. A selection of images from this book were also awarded The Jerwood
Photography Award in 2003.
‘The Diminishing Present’ & ‘Approaches’ Martins’ following monographs were launched in 2006.
An exhibition of this work has toured Lisbon, New York, Oporto, Madrid, etc.
In Spring 2008 Aperture Books launched Edgar Martins’ most comprehensive monograph to date.
This work will be exhibited internationally, in Portugal, UK, USA, Germany, Brazil, amongst many
other countries.
Edgar Martins was the recipient of the inaugural and much sought after New York Photography
Award (Fine Art Category) in May 2008.
Martins was considered by US art critics as ‘one of the most influential artist of his generation,
working within the medium of Photography’.
Edgar Martins works and lives in the UK.
DNJ Gallery, Los Angeles, CAhttp://www.dnjgallery.netPamela Schoenberg, owner and director
A good place for emerging to mid career photographers. Some of their works tend to be conceptual or documentary other more decorative and some even simplistic. The owner looks for variety within certain range of topics in order to satisfy market interest.
Chris Verene
http://www.chrisverene.com/
For a quarter-century, I have been documenting the same people in Galesburg, Illinois, where three generations of my family have lived. Each person you see here has been in my life for a very long time, and my commitment to our relationship is forever, for good times and bad times, for all the future. As a novice photographer, my family accepted my plan to follow their lives with my camera. I am honored that they still encourage me to this day. It continues to be my aim to make honest pictures of my family and friends-pictures that show true stories that anyone can understand. It continues to be my life commitment to further my relationships, friendships, and kinship with the people in my pictures-who are my people.
Education
| 1996 | M.F.A Georgia State University |
| 1991 | B.A. Emory University |
David Trautrimas
http://www.trautrimas.ca
Trautrimas' photo based architecture explores the construct of home with a series of residential buildings born of everyday objects. From Art Deco coffee pots to the Constructivist grid pattern on an old bathroom scale, Trautrimas searches for source materials which allude to a greater architectural doctrine usually unnoticed in these machines. Then, by dramatic distortion of scale and context, elements of these objects are meticulously re-assembled into strikingly original structures that are paradoxically familiar by virtue of their origins.
Bio:Certified Apple Desktop Technician - June 2004
AOCAD diploma with honors, OCAD - June 2003
Audio Visual Multi-Media Diploma, Fanshawe College - June 1998
International C/O Berlin,
Germanyhttp://www.co-berlin.infofounders: Stephan Erfurt, Marc Naroska and Ingo Pott
This is an organization featuring photographers and videographers in the beginning of their careers. It is not a traditional gallery however it promotes artists like one. C/O runs other programs and exhibiting emerging artists is part of their agenda. Photography seems to move from conceptual to documentary and journalism. They organize shows with featured photographers in Goethe Institut branches in Washington DC and Helsinki, Finland (the ones I know of). They also sell prints but the objective is promoting photographers.
Ivonne Theinhttp://www.ivonnethein.comThis photograph comes from Ivonne Thein’s series entitled “Thirty-Two Kilos,” which deals with the pathological striving of young men and women to be extremely thin. The background to this work is a phenomenon that emerged in the US already in the 1990s with the Internet movement “Pro Ana,” which elevates anorexia nervosa to the status of a new, positive lifestyle for young women. The Internet has become the virtual home to diverse communities that do not define themselves as self-help groups for those suffering from eating disorders. Quite the opposite, they support the desire to lose weight, circulating encouraging slogans to help girls achieve the perfect bodies of their dreams. On these sites, this extreme body ideal is illustrated with abundant visual material. Role models are celebrated – for example, female celebrities with anorexia, who seem to embody the connection between extreme physical self-control and a happier and more successful life. The health risks of this lifestyle, however, disappear from view. At the same time, one also regularly finds photographs on these sites that the trained eye can recognize as having been manipulated.
1979
born in Meiningen, Germany
2007
exchange studies, Bachelor of Art RMIT University, Melbourne, Australien
2003 – 2009
Studies of photo and design, Fachhochschule Dortmund under Prof. Susanne Brügger and Prof. Cindy Gates
Awards
2008
C/O Talents 2008, Winner
2007
Passion of Fashion, London Photographic Association, Highly Recommend
Oskar Schmidthttp://oskarschmidt.de/Cannot find a statement on his web site, obviously he is playing with norms and the notions of what's acceptable. There is no pre pubescent nudity but the photos suggest sexuality in other ways. Are they resolved enough? He was included in a show in Goethe Institut in Washington DC via the O/C Berlin organization. Of course an emerging artist.
OR maybe I am wrong about his work. Here is a review:
"Bare, sparsely furnished rooms and introverted women and girls, barely present to their surroundings: the starkly reduced photographs of Oskar Schmidt are both portraits and interiors. Like paper cut-outs, the silhouettes of their bodies contrast against the bleak walls, as mute as the objects in a still-life. The people and spaces seem familiar, but they remain mysterious and slightly beyond reach. These pictures do not focus on the individual characteristics of the places and people, but much more generally on their forms and postures, and on each inconspicuous detail. The women and girls portrayed are revenants, characters appropriated from the history of art and brought back to life in a new medium: photography.
Works by Oskar Schmidt (b. 1977) have been shown in numerous solo and group shows in such cities as Berlin, Barcelona, London, Peking and Zurich. This series was selected for inclusion in the “Talents” series by C|O Berlin, the International Forum for Visual Dialogues."
http://www.culturaltourismdc.org/things-do-see/calendar/event/exhibition-revenants-wiederg%C3%A4ngerinnen-photographs-oskar-schmidt
Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, UK
http://www.michaelhoppengallery.com/Michael Hoppen, founder, director and owner
