RACHEL PAPO: Lecture at The Center For Photography at Woodstock Feb 27th

Hava on Margosa Tree, Elroi, Israel 2011
Photograph (c) Rachel Papo /All Rights Reserved

RACHEL PAPO will be giving a lecture about her work at The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Sunday, February 27, 11 am. This lecture is part of a new series, Near Here, featuring photographic artists living in the Woodstock area.

You can also view images from Rachel Papo's Exhibition, Serial No. 3817131, posted here 10.13.2009, at the Redline Art Space, Denver, Colorado, March 1-April 26; the Yangon Photo Festival, Yangon, Myanmar, February 24 - March 26; and Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, in May 2011.

ADAM MAGYAR: Squares

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517, 2007
Photograph (c) Adam Magyar /All Rights Reserved

Hong Kong II, 2007-2009
Photograph (c) Adam Magyar /All Rights Reserved

Hong Kong II, magnified
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Photograph (c) Adam Magyar /All Rights Reserved

Hong Kong II, Detail
Photograph (c) Adam Magyar /All Rights Reserved

I alter space. What you see in my images is artificial.
Real details can be used to create a non-existent reality.

ADAM MAGYAR, now living in Berlin, was born in Debrecen, Hungary. Magyar, Jeffris Elliott and 4 others (names tk) won the 2009 Photography Now PQ #99 contest. Debra Klomp Ching, co-owner of KLOMPCHING GALLERY was Juror. Their work will be published in issue #99 of Center for Photography at Woodstock's PQ Magazine. Magyar's work has won several other awards, including the 2009 International Photography Awards 1st Place in Fine Art/Collage for Squares and 1st Place in Special/Aerial for Squares, 2006-2007 Josef Pecsi Scholarship and the Hungarian Press Photo Grand Prize in 2004. I asked Magyar about this series:

Can you give a short detail of how you arrived at this project?
I like to work with simple, real and obvious matters like pedestrians. I started experimenting with different digital techniques, because I did not find places that I wanted to see in my images. I wanted to depict people in endless and seamless environments, without recognizable or particular surroundings. The images are really detailed, you can see a lot of tiny things if you go close to them.

Did you set up the people in the image #517?
In a sense I did. All the squares are artificially set up from hundreds of images that I took from about 4-5 meters high of pedestrians on sidewalks. This distance, or rather, closeness allows me to create extremely high-resolution images, thus allowing the viewer to survey each person close-up. Yet, observing the image at close range makes it possible for us to see it as a whole, while looking at it from a distance results in losing all the details.

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