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Paris Photo, now in its third year in Los Angeles, will exhibit innovative image-making from May 1 - 3, 2015 at Paramount Pictures Studios. This year, the fair sponsored by BMW includes 79 exhibitors from 17 countries and a special program, INTRODUCING! Young California Photographer Award.
The photographers nominated for INTRODUCING! come from some of the most prestigious M.F.A. programs in California, and they will also be showing their own work at Paris Photo LA. A jury will announce the recipient of the $5000 award on Thursday, April 30, 2015, just before the fair's opening.
View the work of the six finalists below and keep these names on your radar.
Arden Ellis Surdam
“My work is deeply informed by the intersection of gender and camouflage. I disguise the human form in an attempt to bring awareness to the anonymity of the self.”
Daniel Centofanti
“This work depicts a family owned company where my grandfather and father have worked and where my brothers and I all have spent summers working. It is part of a larger series of works documenting steel fabrication labor.”
Brian Dean
“A land between the water of the San Francisco Bay and the cities that huddle to the interior is an area in conflict. This area was once called a wetland and conquered over 150 years ago, when the need for more space to support a growing population forced these lands to be blocked off, dried up and developed.”
Shannon Foreman
“These photographs are part of a larger series entitled 'Please Write Soon.' I began the series last year after I found out that my mother was dying. I have a collection of letters that she wrote to me between the years of 1995 and 2012 while she was locked up in various rehabilitation clinics, psychiatric facilities and jail. Forming a kind of ritual, I would re-read these letters and then photograph at the Golden Gate Bridge. Trying to figure out how I could feel her loss so keenly while she’s still here.”
Paul Mpagi Sepuya
“'Study for Theodore with Three Figures, 2013-15 (0702)' is from a series that I have been working on in my second quarter at UCLA. The pictures are analogue constructions of figures – fragmented nudes, laser prints, fruits, Post-It notes… cycling between three grounds of the mirror surface, the camera plain, and the studio wall.”
CJ Heylinger
“This body of work is born out of the realization that my interests lie in using photography to create an environment rather than to depict one–viewing the landscape as a studio instead of a subject, and using the camera as an interpreter as opposed to a recorder.”
