December 5 thru 10: APA-NY’s 2nd Annual Juried Exhibition at the legendary Soho Photo Gallery.
This year our guest juror was esteemed gallerist Brian Paul Clamp.
Come to the Opening Reception on December 7, 6-9pm, to see the stunning photography created by APA members from all across the country, 101 images by 65 professional photographers. RSVP here for the Opening:
https://ny.apanational.org/events/entry/apa-nys-soho-photo-gallery-show-opening-night-reception/
You can view the show all week during regular Soho Photo Gallery hours, (12noon - 6pm), but many of the artists represented will be on-hand for the Opening Reception, for you to meet and hang out with as the photo community comes back together.
Also, you’ll get to see the prizes being awarded to some unsuspecting photographers!
PLUS: All week long the gallery will be a hub of activity as we present all kinds of events; after-hours talks and morning workshops with top industry photographers and creatives.
Please check out the full schedule here as it updates and join us! https://ny.apanational.org
This year our guest juror was esteemed gallerist Brian Paul Clamp.
Come to the Opening Reception on December 7, 6-9pm, to see the stunning photography created by APA members from all across the country, 101 images by 65 professional photographers. RSVP here for the Opening:
https://ny.apanational.org/events/entry/apa-nys-soho-photo-gallery-show-opening-night-reception/
You can view the show all week during regular Soho Photo Gallery hours, (12noon - 6pm), but many of the artists represented will be on-hand for the Opening Reception, for you to meet and hang out with as the photo community comes back together.
Also, you’ll get to see the prizes being awarded to some unsuspecting photographers!
PLUS: All week long the gallery will be a hub of activity as we present all kinds of events; after-hours talks and morning workshops with top industry photographers and creatives.
Please check out the full schedule here as it updates and join us! https://ny.apanational.org
Photographs I will be exhibiting at the EEPG show "New York State of Mind" at the Salmagundi Club in NYC below from left to right:
Swing'n With the Bass (Central Park), 2012: exhibited at Saphira and Venturi's 2022 Venice Biennale Collateral show September 2022
Hope and Despair, 2020: Lead photograph of 9-photograph series: 7pm Appreciation of Frontline Heroes in Brooklyn, NY won 3rd Place in the 2020 International Photography Awards, Category: Event, Social Cause
Drumbeat of Juneteenth 2020: won Honorable Mention 2021 Monovisions Photography Awards, Category: Photojournalism
Snowfall in Central Park, 2012 (one of my favorite photographs!)
The opening reception, Thursday, December 14, 2023 6 - 8 pm, requires RSVP (please email me: kamphoto27@gmail.com)
Swing'n With the Bass (Central Park), 2012: exhibited at Saphira and Venturi's 2022 Venice Biennale Collateral show September 2022
Hope and Despair, 2020: Lead photograph of 9-photograph series: 7pm Appreciation of Frontline Heroes in Brooklyn, NY won 3rd Place in the 2020 International Photography Awards, Category: Event, Social Cause
Drumbeat of Juneteenth 2020: won Honorable Mention 2021 Monovisions Photography Awards, Category: Photojournalism
Snowfall in Central Park, 2012 (one of my favorite photographs!)
The opening reception, Thursday, December 14, 2023 6 - 8 pm, requires RSVP (please email me: kamphoto27@gmail.com)
Black & White images from Alma Dance Company performance "Womb Creatures" of May 5th and 6th, 2023.
Heather Robles, is the founder and Artistic Executive Director of the Alma Dance Company. Heather choreographed and performed in the piece. The five other dancers who performed were Natalia Munoz, Cecilia Mitchell, Roberta Samet Dr. Angela Fatou Gittens and Mireicy Aquino. The series includes images of every dancer. See People page 5.
This series won Honorable Mention in Monovisions Black and White Photography Awards 2023, People Category and Honorable Mention in International Photography Awards 2023, Event-Other Category.
Photographic Essay: Nature's Revenge, A Clarion Call (below), won Honorable Mention International Photography Awards, Deeper Perspective 2023; Conservation Category (essay can be seen at bottom on Black & White page 8)
The slide show below includes images that have won 40 international awards
ARTIST STATEMENT
I currently reside in Brooklyn, New York. My preferred photographic medium is black and white. I find the creative process of visualizing, making a photograph and printing in greyscale particularly exhilarating. I depend on the existing light in any scene.
My portraits are motivated by my love of dance, jazz and classical music and my deep respect and admiration for the performers. The techniques of my portraiture are inspired by the musicians’ intimacy with their music and instrument and the dancers’ ability to fuse their hearts, minds and movements to convey their message. I emphasize the details of their faces and bodies to transmit the emotional intensity during a performance. Sometimes I utilize motion blur to achieve the same result. My journalistic portraits are motivated by my support to specific social causes.
My landscapes are motivated by the creativity and beauty of nature. Natural lighting, clouds and water moving at different speeds, contrasted with static scenery, create dramatic landscape images. By manipulating a scene with longer exposures, I seek to enhance tonal variations and complex textures, transforming an interesting image into an unusually unique and unworldly piece of art.
My intent is for the viewer to travel into the photographic scene and absorb the emotions, energy and serenity the landscape or the person emits.
*. *. *. *. *. *. *. * *. * .
International Recognition and Photography Awards
2023 Black and White Spider Awards
Honorable Mention: Nature Category
Alone, 2022
2023 International Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Event-Other (Series)
Womb Creatures (Dance Performance by Alma Dance Company), 2023
2023 International Photography Awards, Deeper Perspective
Honorable Mention: Photographic Essay
Nature's Revenge, A Clarion Call; Conservation Category, 2022
2023 Monovisions Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Single, Landscapes Category
Vessels of Life, 2022
Honorable Mention: Single, Landscapes Category
Edge of the Earth, 2022
Honorable Mention: Series, Abstract Art Category
Glacial Abstract Art, 2022
Honorable Mention: Series, People Category
Dance Performance: Womb Creatures, 2023
2023 International Color Awards
Honorable Mention Amateur Nature Category
Vestrahorn Time Tunnels, 2022
2022, Saphira & Ventura Collateral Exhibition at 2022 Venice Biennale
Swing'n With the Bass, 2012
Violin in Central Park, Susan Keser; 2012
Jazz Bass (Felipe Cabrera), 2019
Blow Your Mind (Chief Adjuah, formerly Christian Scott), 2018
2022 Monochrome Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Amateur Landscape Category
Vessels of Life, 2022
Honorable Mention: Amateur Landscape Category
Tentacles, 2022
2021 Photographs Purchased by Monarch XOF Producer, TV Series on Fox Broadcasting (The first two images appeared on the trailer and in one episode.)
Alien Invasion, 2016
Swing’n With the Bass, 2012
Violin in Central Park, Susan Keser, 2012
Glow of Kirkjufell, 2016
2021 International Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Event, Concert Category
Blow Your Mind (Chief Adjuah, formerly Christian Scott), 2018
Honorable Mention: Event, Social Cause Category
Drumbeat of Juneteenth 2020
Honorable Mention: Special Smartphone Photography Category
Blackbird Over the Bay, 2020
Honorable Mention: Fine Art, Landscape Category
Storm Over Gullfoss, 2018
2021 Epson International Pano Awards
Bronze Award
After Midnight Icelandic Serenity, 2016
2021 Monovisions Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Single, Photojournalism Category
Drumbeat of Juneteenth 2020
Honorable Mention: Single, Nature and Wildlife Category
Pulse of a Storm, 2020
2020 International Photography Awards
3rd Place: Event (Series), Social Cause Category
7pm Appreciation of Frontline Heroes in Brooklyn, NY; 2020
Honorable Mention: People, Portrait Category
Hope and Despair, 2020
2020 International Photography OneShot Awards
Honorable Mention: Movement, Nature
Glow of Kirkjufell, 2016
2020 Monovisions Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Series, Landscapes Category
Costa Brava Art, 2019
Honorable Mention: Series, Landscapes Category
Black Beach Art, 2018
Honorable Mention: Series, People Category
7pm Appreciation of Frontline Heroes in NYC, 2020
Honorable Mention: Single, Landscapes
Living Atop the World, 2019
2020 PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris
Honorable Mention: Nature, Landscapes Category
Glow of Kirkjufell, 2016
Honorable Mention: Street Photography, Special
7pm Appreciation of Frontline Heroes in NYC, 2020
2020 ND Awards
Honorable Mention: Nature (Series), Other Category
Unworldly Iceland, 2016 and 2018
Honorable Mention: Nature, Seascapes/Waterscapes Category
Pulse of a Storm, 2020
2020 Black and White Spider Awards
Honorable Mention: Photojournalism
Hope and Despair, 2020
Honorable Mention: Photojournalism
Difficult Day, 2020
Honorable Mention: Portrait
Sax on Juneteenth (Michael Jorden), 2020
2020 Monochrome Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Amateur Nature Category
Pulse of a Storm, 2020
2020 Chromatic Awards
Honorable Mention: Nature Category
Sunrise on Fire, 2015
2019 International Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Fine Art, Landscape (Series) Category
Black Beach Art, 2018
Honorable Mention: Event, Concert Category
Jazz Bass, 2019
2019 Epson International Pano Awards
Bronze Award
Alpenglow in the Dolomites at Sunrise, 2015
2019 Chromatic Awards
Honorable Mention: Nature Category
Approaching Paradise, 2013
2019 Monochrome Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Amateur Landscape Category
Icelandic Sculpture, 2018
Honorable Mention: Amateur Portrait Category
Jazz Bass (Felipe Cabrera), 2019
2013 Prix De La Photographie Paris
Peoples Choice First Prize
Approaching Paradise, 2013
***I encourage all of those interested to leave comments/posts on my blog page.
My portraits are motivated by my love of dance, jazz and classical music and my deep respect and admiration for the performers. The techniques of my portraiture are inspired by the musicians’ intimacy with their music and instrument and the dancers’ ability to fuse their hearts, minds and movements to convey their message. I emphasize the details of their faces and bodies to transmit the emotional intensity during a performance. Sometimes I utilize motion blur to achieve the same result. My journalistic portraits are motivated by my support to specific social causes.
My landscapes are motivated by the creativity and beauty of nature. Natural lighting, clouds and water moving at different speeds, contrasted with static scenery, create dramatic landscape images. By manipulating a scene with longer exposures, I seek to enhance tonal variations and complex textures, transforming an interesting image into an unusually unique and unworldly piece of art.
My intent is for the viewer to travel into the photographic scene and absorb the emotions, energy and serenity the landscape or the person emits.
*. *. *. *. *. *. *. * *. * .
International Recognition and Photography Awards
2023 Black and White Spider Awards
Honorable Mention: Nature Category
Alone, 2022
2023 International Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Event-Other (Series)
Womb Creatures (Dance Performance by Alma Dance Company), 2023
2023 International Photography Awards, Deeper Perspective
Honorable Mention: Photographic Essay
Nature's Revenge, A Clarion Call; Conservation Category, 2022
2023 Monovisions Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Single, Landscapes Category
Vessels of Life, 2022
Honorable Mention: Single, Landscapes Category
Edge of the Earth, 2022
Honorable Mention: Series, Abstract Art Category
Glacial Abstract Art, 2022
Honorable Mention: Series, People Category
Dance Performance: Womb Creatures, 2023
2023 International Color Awards
Honorable Mention Amateur Nature Category
Vestrahorn Time Tunnels, 2022
2022, Saphira & Ventura Collateral Exhibition at 2022 Venice Biennale
Swing'n With the Bass, 2012
Violin in Central Park, Susan Keser; 2012
Jazz Bass (Felipe Cabrera), 2019
Blow Your Mind (Chief Adjuah, formerly Christian Scott), 2018
2022 Monochrome Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Amateur Landscape Category
Vessels of Life, 2022
Honorable Mention: Amateur Landscape Category
Tentacles, 2022
2021 Photographs Purchased by Monarch XOF Producer, TV Series on Fox Broadcasting (The first two images appeared on the trailer and in one episode.)
Alien Invasion, 2016
Swing’n With the Bass, 2012
Violin in Central Park, Susan Keser, 2012
Glow of Kirkjufell, 2016
2021 International Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Event, Concert Category
Blow Your Mind (Chief Adjuah, formerly Christian Scott), 2018
Honorable Mention: Event, Social Cause Category
Drumbeat of Juneteenth 2020
Honorable Mention: Special Smartphone Photography Category
Blackbird Over the Bay, 2020
Honorable Mention: Fine Art, Landscape Category
Storm Over Gullfoss, 2018
2021 Epson International Pano Awards
Bronze Award
After Midnight Icelandic Serenity, 2016
2021 Monovisions Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Single, Photojournalism Category
Drumbeat of Juneteenth 2020
Honorable Mention: Single, Nature and Wildlife Category
Pulse of a Storm, 2020
2020 International Photography Awards
3rd Place: Event (Series), Social Cause Category
7pm Appreciation of Frontline Heroes in Brooklyn, NY; 2020
Honorable Mention: People, Portrait Category
Hope and Despair, 2020
2020 International Photography OneShot Awards
Honorable Mention: Movement, Nature
Glow of Kirkjufell, 2016
2020 Monovisions Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Series, Landscapes Category
Costa Brava Art, 2019
Honorable Mention: Series, Landscapes Category
Black Beach Art, 2018
Honorable Mention: Series, People Category
7pm Appreciation of Frontline Heroes in NYC, 2020
Honorable Mention: Single, Landscapes
Living Atop the World, 2019
2020 PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris
Honorable Mention: Nature, Landscapes Category
Glow of Kirkjufell, 2016
Honorable Mention: Street Photography, Special
7pm Appreciation of Frontline Heroes in NYC, 2020
2020 ND Awards
Honorable Mention: Nature (Series), Other Category
Unworldly Iceland, 2016 and 2018
Honorable Mention: Nature, Seascapes/Waterscapes Category
Pulse of a Storm, 2020
2020 Black and White Spider Awards
Honorable Mention: Photojournalism
Hope and Despair, 2020
Honorable Mention: Photojournalism
Difficult Day, 2020
Honorable Mention: Portrait
Sax on Juneteenth (Michael Jorden), 2020
2020 Monochrome Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Amateur Nature Category
Pulse of a Storm, 2020
2020 Chromatic Awards
Honorable Mention: Nature Category
Sunrise on Fire, 2015
2019 International Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Fine Art, Landscape (Series) Category
Black Beach Art, 2018
Honorable Mention: Event, Concert Category
Jazz Bass, 2019
2019 Epson International Pano Awards
Bronze Award
Alpenglow in the Dolomites at Sunrise, 2015
2019 Chromatic Awards
Honorable Mention: Nature Category
Approaching Paradise, 2013
2019 Monochrome Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Amateur Landscape Category
Icelandic Sculpture, 2018
Honorable Mention: Amateur Portrait Category
Jazz Bass (Felipe Cabrera), 2019
2013 Prix De La Photographie Paris
Peoples Choice First Prize
Approaching Paradise, 2013
***I encourage all of those interested to leave comments/posts on my blog page.