EXHIBITION DETAILS
Holga
September 30, 2011 — January 14, 2012
Biographies:
Michelle Bates:
Michelle Bates is known as the “Holga Queen” because of her renowned dedication to the artistic possibilities of Holga. A Holga aficionado since 1991, bates is an author, educator, and a leading toy camera photographer.
Her book Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity was published in late 2006 by Focal Press and the second edition in October 2010. The book is widely recognized as the most comprehensive book to document the world of toy cameras. The book received both widespread attention and critical acclaim.
Michelle has shown work in solo exhibitions in the Pacific Northwest, Los Angeles and Israel, and in group shows around the US, Italy, Germany & Thailand.
Michelle lives in Seattle, and also frequents Vashon Island, Portland, San Francisco and New York. She loves to road trip and flies away with her Holgas whenever possible.
Susan Bowen
Susan Bowen lives in New York, NY and is known for her overlapping multiple exposure panoramas, which she shoots with a plastic camera. In 2008 Susan completed a 48' public art mural for a school in New Haven, Connecticut, and the previous year she created four murals for the Department of Transportation in Minnesota. In 2007 she was profiled in Photo Techniques and Light Leaks magazines, published in Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age, and received an award in the Pilsner Urquell International Photography/Lucie 2007 Awards. In 2006 Susan had four images published in Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity, a book by Michelle Bates. Her 17 solo/2-person shows have been in New York, Las Vegas, Pittsburgh, Reno, Dayton, San Marino, Lubbock, and Tennessee. Susan has been in 157 group shows in the past 9 years, including ones at the Safe-T, Nelson Hancock, and Sideshow galleries in Brooklyn, the Photographic Center NW in Seattle, Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, and the Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, CO. She has been a finalist for public art projects in Brooklyn, Iowa, Tampa, Indianapolis, Kansas City, and Texas..
David Burnett
David Burnett is one of the world’s most celebrated photographers. His career has spanned four decades and the circumference of the globe. He has been named Magazine Photographer of the Year by the Pictures of the Year Competition, The Word Press Photograph of the Year, and the
Robert Capa Award from the Overseas Press Club. His Holga prints “Al Gore Campaigns in Philadelphia” earned him the top prize from the White House News Photographers Association’s Eyes of History Contest. His work continues to be featured in magazines like Time and Fortune and the advertising campaigns of Fortune 500 companies.
Tammy Cromer-Campbell
Tammy Cromer-Campbell is an award winning American photographer based in Texas. She is best known for her work as a documentary photographer and public speaker. In 2006, the University of North Texas Press published her first book, Fruit of the Orchard: Environmental Justice in East Texas. She recently received first prize at the Green Dot Awards in the category of Entertainment and Culture and Cromer-Campbell is a 2009 Honoree for the National Women’s History Month 2009 theme: Women taking the Lead to Save Our Planet. In addition, many of her works are in public and private collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Museet for Fotokunst, Denmark and others. Her work has been
published in many publications including cover stories for Camera Arts Magazine’s February 2001 issue, Houston Chronicle’s Texas Magazine numerous times and other. She photographs from her studio in downtown Longview, Texas and lives with her husband Scott, also a photographer.
Taiju Fubuki
Taiju Fubuki was born in 1971, in Osaka, Japan. He is a photographic artist and founder of the Holga Kai (Holga Club), an association of Holga photographers in Japan. After graduating from the Japan Institute of Photography (now Japan Institute of Photography and film), Taiju Fubuki worked as a television cameraman. He started using the Holga in 1999, and founded the Holga Kai in 2001. After a period as a lecturer at a design college he opened Gallery Avi in Osaka in 2005, which he runs as a space for photographers to exhibit their art. He has had numerous exhibitions of his works and teaches photography at various institutions in Japan. Holga Kai now has members in all 47 prefectures of Japan, as well as in China, Korea, Taiwan, South east Asia and Europe, and is one of the largest Holga photographers associations in the world. It organizes exhibitions, events and portfolio reviews, and promotes communication among its members through its website.
Teru Kuwayama
Teru Kuwayama is well known as a photojournalist and as a humanitarian activist. A native New Yorker, he travels extensively in search of challenging locations. He works primarily in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Kashmir- from the soaring heights of the Hindu Kush to some of the most devastated regions of the planet. His dramatic and compelling images are showcased in exhibitions and projections around the world, and in publication such as Time, Newsweek and Outside. Kuwayama is also the co-founder of Lightstalkers, a web-based network of globetrotting photographers.
Annu Palakunnatu Matthew
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew's recent exhibitions include the Newark Art Museum, Newark, NJ, Light Work, Syracuse, NY, Sepia International, New York City, the RISD Museum, the 2006 Noorderlicht Photo Festival in Netherlands and the 2005 Le Mois de la Photo a Montreal Photo Biennale in Canada.
In 2007, Matthew was the first of three artists to be awarded the 2007 MacColl Johnson Fellowship in Visual Arts. Among the list of other grants recently supporting Matthew's work include the John Gutmann Fellowship, Rhode Island State Council of the Arts Fellowship and the American Institute of Indian Studies Creative Arts fellowship. She was recently an artist in residence at the Yaddo Colony, Saratoga Springs, NY and the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH. Her work can be found in the collection of the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ, and the RISD Museum, Providence, RI, among others.
Matthew's work is included in the book BLINK from Phaidon, that according to the publisher celebrates the quality and vision of today's 100 most exciting international contemporary photographers.
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew is on the Board of Directors of the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities and the URI Council for the Humanities. She is represented by Sepia International Inc., New York City & Tasveer Gallery, India.
Pauline St. Denis
St. Denis shoots with color transparency film, but only advances the film partially to create over lapping exposures. Her work captures the ethereal quality of light, movement and time. Her pictures are kinetic, energetic and highly stylized. She demonstrates Holga’s upbeat and energetic capabilities.
Pauline St Denis’s commercial style utilizes the visual vocabularies of fashion, beauty and advertising. She employs Holga’s multi exposure techniques to create exquisite color and play between reality and fantasy.
Pauline St. Denis is a commercial photographer based in New York. St. Denis has shot photographs for over twenty years for the advertising, fashion, editorial, celebrity and fine arts photography. She is also a live action director. Her former clients include L’Oreal, J.P Morgan, Chase, Mobil Oil, NBA, Sony, and Virgin Records.
Harvey Stein
Harvey Stein is a professional photographer, teacher, lecturer, author and curator based in New York City. He currently teaches at the International Center of Photography and in the Master of Professional Studies Program in Digital Photography at the School of Visual Arts. Stein is a frequent lecturer on photography both in the United States and abroad. He is the Director of Photography at Umbrella Arts Gallery, located in the East Village of Manhattan. He has also been a member of the faculty of the New School University, Drew University, Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of Bridgeport. Stein's photographs and portfolios have been in all the major photo magazines and publications.
Stein's photographs have been widely exhibited in the United States and Europe—72 one person and over 140 group shows to date. He also curated 15 exhibits from 2007-2010. His photographs are in more than 55 permanent collections, including the George Eastman House, Bibliotheque Nationale, the Art Institute of Chicago etc.
Rebecca Tolk
Rebecca Tolk started her photography business, Rebecca Tolk Photography, in 1995. She has studied photography at the University of Delaware and Northern Virginia Community College as well as in New York City and Atlanta, Georgia. For years, Rebecca made her name in the Washington, DC metro area as a creative wedding and portrait photographer. Her unconventional approach made her quite sought after by clients looking to capture something more personal in their portraits. While developing and growing this business, Rebecca felt a strong pull to create work that was more personal to her, and began traveling with her camera. Along her journey, she discovered the Holga camera; an unusual camera with many technical "imperfections" that produced interesting effects in it's images. This was to become Rebecca's camera of choice. Now Rebecca has found the elusive combination of elements an artist needs to thrive: her medium, her subject and her community. Her photography has evolved into the fine art images that appear in the virtual galleries on this website. Rebecca displays her work in galleries and offers select prints in limited edition runs to the public and private collectors. It is important to remember that the images have not been digitally altered to produce the dream-like quality they capture; that is the result of the photographer and the camera itself.
