THE GREAT ESCAPE- Nancy Baron & Jennifer McClure > Honorable Mentions: Peter Kahn-Tolowa Dunes 10.21.23, Nadine Levin-Silence, Erica Martin Kelly- The Creek & Emma Sywyj- Taxi at Sunset
Honorable Mentions: Peter Kahn-Tolowa Dunes 10.21.23, Nadine Levin-Silence, Erica Martin Kelly- The Creek & Emma Sywyj- Taxi at Sunset
Emma Sywyj/Taxi at Sunset, China
HONORABLE MENTION
HONORABLE MENTION
EMMA SYWYJ:
"My artwork aims to capture and show life at it’s most vibrant & exciting. The photographs I take encourage people to see the intricacies & beauty beyond the everyday. My artwork is often centred around my immediate environment and cultural identity. I also celebrate culture in all its varied forms all over the world. I have photographed Europe & Asia capturing these countries and cultures as I experience them. My work encourages viewers to feel awe and joy in the travellers quest and the rewards that experiencing other cultures can bring whilst developing my own cultural identity through photography.
"My artwork aims to capture and show life at it’s most vibrant & exciting. The photographs I take encourage people to see the intricacies & beauty beyond the everyday. My artwork is often centred around my immediate environment and cultural identity. I also celebrate culture in all its varied forms all over the world. I have photographed Europe & Asia capturing these countries and cultures as I experience them. My work encourages viewers to feel awe and joy in the travellers quest and the rewards that experiencing other cultures can bring whilst developing my own cultural identity through photography.
I am a award winning artist and photographer that has been creating art for 20 years, 5 of those years I was based in London studying photography at the Camberwell College of Arts at the UAL. From there I received a BA in Photography and a Foundation Diploma in Art & Design. I have exhibited artwork internationally in the US in New York, Art Basel Miami & San Francisco, as well as in Athens, Greece and Budapest in Hungary. I have also exhibited nationally in the UK and London several times. I have been published in several art magazines in the UK and journals internationally and exhibited my video artwork in galleries & film festivals around the world.
In 2018 I won The Avalonia Photography Traveler Award in the USA and won Best Photograph at the Annual Copenhagen Film Festival as well in the same year.
I have exhibited my video art piece Screen Test: Part One at the Wiz- Art Festival in Lviv in the Ukraine and I have exhibited my photography several times in Budapest at the PH21 Gallery. I have also been published in Artist Talk Magazine and C41 Magazine."
IMAGE FOR SALE
Bread, Italy - 13cm H x 18cm W
Archival Paper
$136 unframed
Limited Edition of 20
Signed on back
Contact: Emma Sywyj
Flowers & Oranges, Malaysia - 30cm H x 30cm W
Archival Paper
$136 unframed
Limited Edition of 20
Signed on back
Contact: Emma Sywyj
Mahjong, Malaysia - 30cm H x 30cm W
Archival Paper
$136 unframed
Limited Edition of 20
Signed on back
Contact: Emma Sywyj
Taxi at Sunset, China - 13cm H x 18cm W
Archival Paper
$136 unframed
Limited Edition of 20
Signed on back
Contact: Emma Sywyj
View of Miranda, Italy - 30cm H x 30cm W
Archival Paper
$136 unframed
Limited Edition of 20
Signed on back
Contact: Emma Sywyj
Wall & Window, China - 13cm H x 18cm W
Archival Paper
$136 unframed
Limited Edition of 20
Signed on back
Contact: Emma Sywyj
Email address: emmasywyj@hotmail.com
Erica Kelly Martin/The Creek
HONORABLE MENTION
HONORABLE MENTION
ERICA KELLY MARTIN:
"Water has always been my escape hatch. Chlorinated or salt, still or crashing, it’s a place I can feel free. These images are love letters to that weightless state where gravity backs off and joy comes rushing in. I photograph the moments just before or after the splash, where memory and freedom combine.
Based in Los Angeles, I make pictures about longing, myth, and the strange beauty of real life. When in doubt, I swim. It’s cheaper than therapy and slightly more socially acceptable than running away entirely."
IMAGE FOR SALE
The Creek - 19"H x 13" W
Archival pigment print on fine art paper
$950 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
Contact:
Erica Kelly Martin
labokeh@gmail.com
www.EricaKellyMartin.com
www.instagram.com/EricaKellyMartin
"Water has always been my escape hatch. Chlorinated or salt, still or crashing, it’s a place I can feel free. These images are love letters to that weightless state where gravity backs off and joy comes rushing in. I photograph the moments just before or after the splash, where memory and freedom combine.
Based in Los Angeles, I make pictures about longing, myth, and the strange beauty of real life. When in doubt, I swim. It’s cheaper than therapy and slightly more socially acceptable than running away entirely."
IMAGE FOR SALE
The Creek - 19"H x 13" W
Archival pigment print on fine art paper
$950 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
Contact:
Erica Kelly Martin
labokeh@gmail.com
www.EricaKellyMartin.com
www.instagram.com/EricaKellyMartin
Nadine Levin/Silence
HONORABLE MENTION
HONORABLE MENTION
NADINE LEVIN:
"When I want to escape,for a time, from personal or external matters that cause me internal turmoil I look for environmental elements that bring me peace. Usually, there is an element of water involved in my mental and or physical escape. The series of images presented in this entry have an element of water and levity. My escapism needs to have some humor and abstraction for it to feel complete. The definition of water is broadly interpreted (for example clouds) in these images."
Nadine Levin is primarily a lens-based artist residing in San Mateo California. Nadine began her photographic pursuit in her mid-career years using an inherited film camera. She fell in love with the versatility of telling stories and seeing life through a lens. While her love is film and making and collecting black and white images, she adapted to digital platforms and processing due to the lack of darkroom accessibility. In moving to the digital world her work began to include color.
Mostly self-taught, she has sought opportunities to learn from well-known contemporary photographers and by studying the work of illustrative 20th and 21st century photographers.
Nadine’s work focuses on conceptual, documentary and abstract photography. The themes, capture and printing methods are varied and develop as life unfolds before her. Of late she has focused on personal narrative work and uses self-portraiture as a significant element in her story telling.
She has displayed her work in both juried and invitational group shows. Nadine’s work is held in private and public collections, and she is the recipient of recognition at the local, regional, national, and international level.
Image is for a sale at $425.
www.nadineplevin.com
www.instagram.com/nlevin68
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"When I want to escape,for a time, from personal or external matters that cause me internal turmoil I look for environmental elements that bring me peace. Usually, there is an element of water involved in my mental and or physical escape. The series of images presented in this entry have an element of water and levity. My escapism needs to have some humor and abstraction for it to feel complete. The definition of water is broadly interpreted (for example clouds) in these images."
Nadine Levin is primarily a lens-based artist residing in San Mateo California. Nadine began her photographic pursuit in her mid-career years using an inherited film camera. She fell in love with the versatility of telling stories and seeing life through a lens. While her love is film and making and collecting black and white images, she adapted to digital platforms and processing due to the lack of darkroom accessibility. In moving to the digital world her work began to include color.
Mostly self-taught, she has sought opportunities to learn from well-known contemporary photographers and by studying the work of illustrative 20th and 21st century photographers.
Nadine’s work focuses on conceptual, documentary and abstract photography. The themes, capture and printing methods are varied and develop as life unfolds before her. Of late she has focused on personal narrative work and uses self-portraiture as a significant element in her story telling.
She has displayed her work in both juried and invitational group shows. Nadine’s work is held in private and public collections, and she is the recipient of recognition at the local, regional, national, and international level.
Image is for a sale at $425.
www.nadineplevin.com
www.instagram.com/nlevin68
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Peter Kahn/Tolowa Dunes, 10-21-23/0141
HONORABLE MENTION
HONORABLE MENTION
PETER KAHN:
"I am most at ease outdoors—beneath the open sky, among towering trees, and by a shifting tide—finding serene moments in our Man–Machine age where an older awareness surfaces and reminds me of my bond with the living world.
I believe that nature isn’t apart from us or something to observe at a distance; it is the quiet partner of our lives, the stable foundation beneath everything, no matter how far modern technologies carry us or how complex our societies become.
In my large-scale images—whether it’s a redwood grove or fog drifting across a coastal ridge—I try to convey a sense of stillness, an immersive feeling of being present, that helps me step away from the constructed world and return, even briefly, to something enduring. I hope each image can serve as a gentle reminder of where we all come from, what sustains us, and why these places matter."
IMAGE FOR SALE
Tolowa Dunes 10.21.23
32” H x 48 “W
Lumachrome Print Optical Acrylic Surface Mount
$3000
Signed on the back
Contact: Peter Kahn
info@peterkahnphotography.com
http://www.peterkahnphotography.com/
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BEST SERIES:
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GROUP EXHIBITION #1:
https://laphotocurator.com/the-great-escape-nancy-baron-jennifer-mcclure/exhibition-1/1
GROUP EXHIBITION #2
https://laphotocurator.com/the-great-escape-nancy-baron-jennifer-mcclure/exhibition-2/1
"I am most at ease outdoors—beneath the open sky, among towering trees, and by a shifting tide—finding serene moments in our Man–Machine age where an older awareness surfaces and reminds me of my bond with the living world.
I believe that nature isn’t apart from us or something to observe at a distance; it is the quiet partner of our lives, the stable foundation beneath everything, no matter how far modern technologies carry us or how complex our societies become.
In my large-scale images—whether it’s a redwood grove or fog drifting across a coastal ridge—I try to convey a sense of stillness, an immersive feeling of being present, that helps me step away from the constructed world and return, even briefly, to something enduring. I hope each image can serve as a gentle reminder of where we all come from, what sustains us, and why these places matter."
IMAGE FOR SALE
Tolowa Dunes 10.21.23
32” H x 48 “W
Lumachrome Print Optical Acrylic Surface Mount
$3000
Signed on the back
Contact: Peter Kahn
info@peterkahnphotography.com
http://www.peterkahnphotography.com/
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BEST SERIES:
https://laphotocurator.com/the-great-escape-nancy-baron-jennifer-mcclure/best-series-scottt-offen/1
GROUP EXHIBITION #1:
https://laphotocurator.com/the-great-escape-nancy-baron-jennifer-mcclure/exhibition-1/1
GROUP EXHIBITION #2
https://laphotocurator.com/the-great-escape-nancy-baron-jennifer-mcclure/exhibition-2/1
