Numbers You Need to Know: Three Photogs, One Show, at 1020
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Featuring some of its members, The 1020 Collective and its show, the “1020 Photo Collective,” offers a “snapshot” of three photographers’ captured creations.
Alex Simpson, Jenna Lutz and Gary Cardot contribute various and unique visions from behind their camera’s lenses.
Switching from landscape to street photography, Alex Simpson in his artist statement explains: “the beauty of street photography is allowing others to share moments with strangers they will never meet…in a way it is allowing the moments that were captured to become a time capsule of the past.”
“Holy Corn Hole” shows two people pitching their beanbags at a corn hole contest; “My Guy Kii” is a young boy strumming a guitar.
“Lost in the ‘Burgh” gives us a man at night looking at his phone, apparently for directions; “Wieners for All” shows a hoodied street vendor tending to his “dogs.” Both are good photographic shots that Simpson captured while among the public.
In her untitled portraits, Jenna Lutz’s contribution to the show, “A Wall That Falls Down,” seeks to “capture the connection between the model and photographer.” By using partially blacked-out text from Henry James’ “Portrait of a Lady” to accompany her images, Lutz states “there is a connection between the photographs and the sentence I use to describe each friend.”
One example: A trio of shots of a young woman, two of them are black and white. The third picture is a color-augmented image of the model in motion with two left hands and a distorted face. Below it, a bowdlerized page from “Lady” with mysterious meaning known only to the artist and her subject.
Gary Cardot’s contributions transforms the ordinary to the otherworldly by use of infrared photography. Several photographs of Presque Isle offer a different, even surreal vision of a place well known to local citizenry (see photo above).
With orange or red skies, white trees with pink or gray-white leaves, the images on display seem more from a science fiction writer’s mind than right here on Earth.
Presenting three distinct photographers, The 1020 Collective gives visitors only a hint at what other unique artists may belong to their artistic forum.
***G. Greenleaf
1020 Photo Collective will be on display until the end of June. The 1020 Collective is located at 1020 Holland St., Erie. For more information, visit www.1020collective.com
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