Nine Photographic Dreams

Time flies, and our opening is right around the corner. Some of the work is framed and ready, some on its way. We even managed to create 50 images for our additional group exhibit!!

If you have reserved the date yet - this is the time to do so. 

We will all be there on the opening night, proud and excited to show our art. 

For some of us it is the first step we take in the contemporary photography world, for others it might be the second or the third, but for all of us, this is one step closer to our dreams. 

Let's take an additional step forward and share our dreams with the world. 

Nine (+one) Photographic Dreams

1.  Rohina Gandhi - Traveling to VRINDAVAN, INDIA to meet and photograph the widows.

2.  Victor Ramos - To make consequential images that change the world.

3.  Miguel Angel Bejarano - Reaching my full potential as a visual artist wherever it takes me.

4.  Leba Marquez - Get a grant to do in-depth project on the Black Taxis in England.  

5.  Kristina Shires - To lose track of time while creating and having the time to lose ... 

6.  Iris Debelder - To find and express beauty in simplicity, keep on digging into that poetic soul.

7.  Cindy Crane - Drop everything, rent an RV and enjoy a long road trip across the U.S. and back.

8.  Sally Ann Field - To travel the world and share what I see. All expenses paid. 

9.  Amy Kanka Valadarsky - Return to Scotland and Ireland, immerse myself in myth and legends.

and our one and only Aline Smithson, the best teacher and mentor we could wish for

Aline: "Besides hanging in the Museum of Modern Art, my dream is to simply make the best work I can.--the kind of work that keeps me up at night with excitement and allows for new levels of creativity."

May all our dreams come true, and lets get ready to party !!!

 

Miguel Ángel Bejarano on "Photographic Prose: Poetic Visuals without Rhythm"

Miguel Angel Bejarano on his series 

"Photographic Prose: Poetic Visuals without Rhythm"

"When I was a teenager traversing through troubling times, I thought the only way I could cope with life was to write -- transforming my state of mind into words.  I would carefully craft poems into songs with the help of my friends in a band.  It helped to feel detached from my own words while someone else sang them.  

It was an indescribable feeling when people would say that they loved a song I had written.  When I touched someone through my lyrics and they felt the way I did, I knew I wasn’t the only one who felt that way.  As I wrote about broken hearts, deceptions, or illusions, I discovered a sense of completion and I could move on, leaving that memory behind."

 "Now, as an adult, I am less secure in sharing my feelings, thoughts, and heartbreaks.  

I dread being exposed and vulnerable.  But now, I let the camera be my vehicle for expression.  My project, Photographic Prose: Poetic Visuals without Rhythm, is a visual voyage into my deepest thoughts and emotions; a psychological journey of sorts.  In this venture I write my songs with photographs, without a thought to rhymes or time signatures."

See more of Miguel's work here