EXHIBITION #4
L.A. Photo Curator: Global Photography Awards - 'Where Photography & Philanthropy Meet' EXHIBITION #4
TREES by Virgil DiBiase
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L.A. Photo Curator: Global Photography Awards - 'Where Photography & Philanthropy Meet' EXHIBITION #4
SNOWFLAKE by Virgil DiBlase
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L.A. Photo Curator: Global Photography Awards - 'Where Photography & Philanthropy Meet' EXHIBITION #4
PORTAL by Virgil Di Blase
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"The sound of silence.
When I walk in the woods I hear crickets, crows and the sound of crunching leaves. 
But what I don’t hear is people talking about nonsense. We are all a bunch of liars.

The sound of nature is about finding truth.
“People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share

And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence”
 -Simon and Garfunkel

Virgil DiBiase (b.1963), a son of Italian immigrants grew up in rural northeast Ohio, in the woods. He grew up speaking Italian in his home and speaking English at school and with friends. He thought every kid his age spoke Italian at home.

His father was a photographer and made beautiful 8x10 silver gelatin prints of his family. When he was 10 or 11 or so he accompanied his father to the dark room and couldn’t believe that an image on a piece of paper, in a tray with water could magically appear before his eyes. From that point on he made pictures, developed film and made silver gelatin prints, however awful they may be. He thought every kid had a darkroom in their basement. He went on to pursue medical school, is a practicing neurologist and now lives in rural northwest Indiana, in the woods.

His primary focus is dementia, both neurologically and photographically. Dementia is a neurodegenerative process that affects the brain and people lose their memories and words. He has incorporated photography as a way to perceive dementia in a visual and internal way.

 Photographic CV

Solo Exhibits:

Access Gallery, Denver, CO, March 2021
Workspace Gallery, Lincoln, NE, Feb. 2019
Strimbu Gallery, Valparaiso University,2014
The Rangefinder Gallery, Leica Chicago, 2014

 Juried Group Exhibits:

  Foto Forum, Santa Fe, March 2021
Photo-eye Gallery, “Fractured”, Santa Fe, NM, 2020
The Baldwin Photographic Gallery, Middle Tennessee State University, “Trust the story”, Feb 2020
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA “My husband won’t tell me his first name”,Oct 2019 Filter Photo Festival III, Chicago, 2019
Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, 2019
American Splendour: New Photography, Ilon Art Gallery, Harlem, NY

2018
Soho Photo Gallery, National Competition, NY,NY 2018
Perspective Gallery, Lens 2018, Evanston, IL 2018
SE Center for Photography, Intimate Portrait, Greenville, SC 2017
Providence Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI 2017
Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Americana, Denver, CO 2017
Filter Photo Festival, Chicago, IL 2017
Griffin Museum of Photography, 23rd Juried Exhibition, Winchester,

Multiple private collections.

Awards:

Editor’s Choice Award, 2nd Place, Center Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, 2020

International Photography Awards, Honorable Mention, People/Portrait, 2019

Critical Mass Finalist, 2019,2018,2017

 Royal Photographic Society, Short listed 20192019,2018,2015


Publications:

PLATINOTYPE: Making Photographs in Platinum and Palladium with the Contemporary Print-out Process, Pradip Malde with Mike Ware. 2020

Shots Magazine, Fall 2019

Lenscratch, “My husband won’t tell me his first name”, 2019

The Cresset, Ecco Homo-Behold the Man, Essay by John Ruff, Vol 79, No 5, 2016

Four and Sons, “A walk in the park”, Feb 2016

IMAGES FOR SALE-

Portal
Edition 25
11x14
Archival Pigment
$200

Trees
Edition 10
Pt/Pl
11x14
$500

Bat
Edition 10
Pt/Pl
11x14
$500

Snowflake
Edition 10
Pt/Pl
11x15
$500

Dead Trees
Edition 10
Pt/Pl
$500

Lost
Edition 25
Archival Pigment
11x14
$200
 
https://vdibiase.zenfolio.com/about.html
 
L.A. Photo Curator: Global Photography Awards - 'Where Photography & Philanthropy Meet' EXHIBITION #4
DEAD TREES by Virgil DiBlase
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L.A. Photo Curator: Global Photography Awards - 'Where Photography & Philanthropy Meet' EXHIBITION #4
LOST by Virgil DiBlase
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L.A. Photo Curator: Global Photography Awards - 'Where Photography & Philanthropy Meet' EXHIBITION #4
BAT by Virgil DiBlase
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"The sound of silence.
When I walk in the woods I hear crickets, crows and the sound of crunching leaves. 
But what I don’t hear is people talking about nonsense. We are all a bunch of liars.

The sound of nature is about finding truth.
“People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share

And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence”
 -Simon and Garfunkel

Virgil DiBiase (b.1963), a son of Italian immigrants grew up in rural northeast Ohio, in the woods. He grew up speaking Italian in his home and speaking English at school and with friends. He thought every kid his age spoke Italian at home.

His father was a photographer and made beautiful 8x10 silver gelatin prints of his family. When he was 10 or 11 or so he accompanied his father to the dark room and couldn’t believe that an image on a piece of paper, in a tray with water could magically appear before his eyes. From that point on he made pictures, developed film and made silver gelatin prints, however awful they may be. He thought every kid had a darkroom in their basement. He went on to pursue medical school, is a practicing neurologist and now lives in rural northwest Indiana, in the woods.

His primary focus is dementia, both neurologically and photographically. Dementia is a neurodegenerative process that affects the brain and people lose their memories and words. He has incorporated photography as a way to perceive dementia in a visual and internal way.

 Photographic CV

Solo Exhibits:

Access Gallery, Denver, CO, March 2021
Workspace Gallery, Lincoln, NE, Feb. 2019
Strimbu Gallery, Valparaiso University,2014
The Rangefinder Gallery, Leica Chicago, 2014

 Juried Group Exhibits:

  Foto Forum, Santa Fe, March 2021
Photo-eye Gallery, “Fractured”, Santa Fe, NM, 2020
The Baldwin Photographic Gallery, Middle Tennessee State University, “Trust the story”, Feb 2020
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA “My husband won’t tell me his first name”,Oct 2019 Filter Photo Festival III, Chicago, 2019
Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, 2019
American Splendour: New Photography, Ilon Art Gallery, Harlem, NY

2018
Soho Photo Gallery, National Competition, NY,NY 2018
Perspective Gallery, Lens 2018, Evanston, IL 2018
SE Center for Photography, Intimate Portrait, Greenville, SC 2017
Providence Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI 2017
Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Americana, Denver, CO 2017
Filter Photo Festival, Chicago, IL 2017
Griffin Museum of Photography, 23rd Juried Exhibition, Winchester,

Multiple private collections.

Awards:

Editor’s Choice Award, 2nd Place, Center Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, 2020

International Photography Awards, Honorable Mention, People/Portrait, 2019

Critical Mass Finalist, 2019,2018,2017

 Royal Photographic Society, Short listed 20192019,2018,2015


Publications:

PLATINOTYPE: Making Photographs in Platinum and Palladium with the Contemporary Print-out Process, Pradip Malde with Mike Ware. 2020

Shots Magazine, Fall 2019

Lenscratch, “My husband won’t tell me his first name”, 2019

The Cresset, Ecco Homo-Behold the Man, Essay by John Ruff, Vol 79, No 5, 2016

Four and Sons, “A walk in the park”, Feb 2016

IMAGES FOR SALE-

Portal
Edition 25
11x14
Archival Pigment
$200

Trees
Edition 10
Pt/Pl
11x14
$500

Bat
Edition 10
Pt/Pl
11x14
$500

Snowflake
Edition 10
Pt/Pl
11x15
$500

Dead Trees
Edition 10
Pt/Pl
$500

Lost
Edition 25
Archival Pigment
11x14
$200
 
https://vdibiase.zenfolio.com/about.html

 
L.A. Photo Curator: Global Photography Awards - 'Where Photography & Philanthropy Meet' EXHIBITION #4
NOT FROM HERE-THE WONDERER by Todd Bradley
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L.A. Photo Curator: Global Photography Awards - 'Where Photography & Philanthropy Meet' EXHIBITION #4
NOT FROM HERE-THE SETTLER by Todd Bradley
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L.A. Photo Curator: Global Photography Awards - 'Where Photography & Philanthropy Meet' EXHIBITION #4
NOT FROM HERE-THE NATIVE by Todd Bradley
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Todd Bradley says, "'Not From Here: A Tale of Non-Native Botanicals', "1,000 plus non-native plants have established roots and made California their home while taking over many region's native plants by over 50%. While most Californians welcome diversity in forms of race and ethnicity, Bio-diversity is a different matter. Most California residents, let alone the world, do not even know that they contribute to the threat of global food security and biodiversity loss.

Not From Here: A Tale of Non-Native Plants examines combining native and non-native botanicals. In these images, I have taken apart flowers and reworked them repeatedly into new displays that explore the relationship between the passage of time and the decay that comes with it using locally sourced botanicals and comparing how they appeared in analog versus digital photography.

With extra time on my hands from Covid-19, I revisited my forgotten film cameras to see what each camera could perform. In between deeper personal projects, I creatively default to an offshoot of my Seed Pod Project, "The Protectors of Magical Seeds." Upon discovering that most of the botanicals I chose from my area in San Diego are non-native and not beneficial to the environment, I felt my project could educate about this problem in agriculture. While simultaneously combining components into stile life displays that should and should not be grown in my area.
 
As an artist, I like to explore different mediums and styles to express my views. My work focuses on decay, whether it is seedpods, structures, or our society.  

I believe the current state of photography is mirroring the early 1900’s when Kodak introduced the Brownie camera to the masses. Today, we have the cell phone. In both times, 

Cameras became common and artists took notice.

As the Modernists once did, I want to push the medium in new ways. Using a tradition photography foundation, I digitally altering my photographs or use micro child-like dioramas to discuss social issues facing us."

Todd Bradley (1970, Detroit, USA) is a contemporary macro | digital photographer currently residing in San Diego, California. He works with dioramas, 
alternative portraiture, and digital manipulation. Todd builds scale model dioramas that become is narrative. Todd’s aesthetic focuses on detailed features, 
demonstrating new perspectives to ordinary objects in still time.

IMAGES FOR SALE-

The Aliens 12”x12” on 17” x 17” paper
Archival pigment on
cotton rag archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 5
stamped and signed on back

 


The Colonizers 12”x12” on 17” x 17” paper
Archival pigment on
cotton rag archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 5
stamped and signed on back


 

The Emigrants 12”x12” on 17” x 17” paper
Archival pigment on
cotton rag archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 5
stamped and signed on back


 


The Native 12”x12” on 17” x 17” paper
Archival pigment on
cotton rag archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 5
stamped and signed on back


 


The Settler 12”x12” on 17” x 17” paper
Archival pigment on
cotton rag archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 5
stamped and signed on back



The Wonderer 12”x12” on 17” x 17” paper
Archival pigment on
cotton rag archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 5
stamped and signed on back

Contact: Todd Bradley
MrtoddBradley@gmail.com

 

www.MrToddBradley.com
https://www.instagram.com/mrtoddbradley
L.A. Photo Curator: Global Photography Awards - 'Where Photography & Philanthropy Meet' EXHIBITION #4
NOT FROM HERE-THE EMIGRANTS by Todd Bradley
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L.A. Photo Curator: Global Photography Awards - 'Where Photography & Philanthropy Meet' EXHIBITION #4
NOT FROM HERE-THE COLONIZER by Todd Bradley
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L.A. Photo Curator: Global Photography Awards - 'Where Photography & Philanthropy Meet' EXHIBITION #4
NOT FROM HERE-THE ALIENS by Todd Bradley
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Todd Bradley says, "'Not From Here: A Tale of Non-Native Botanicals', "1,000 plus non-native plants have established roots and made California their home while taking over many region's native plants by over 50%. While most Californians welcome diversity in forms of race and ethnicity, Bio-diversity is a different matter. Most California residents, let alone the world, do not even know that they contribute to the threat of global food security and biodiversity loss.

Not From Here: A Tale of Non-Native Plants examines combining native and non-native botanicals. In these images, I have taken apart flowers and reworked them repeatedly into new displays that explore the relationship between the passage of time and the decay that comes with it using locally sourced botanicals and comparing how they appeared in analog versus digital photography.

With extra time on my hands from Covid-19, I revisited my forgotten film cameras to see what each camera could perform. In between deeper personal projects, I creatively default to an offshoot of my Seed Pod Project, "The Protectors of Magical Seeds." Upon discovering that most of the botanicals I chose from my area in San Diego are non-native and not beneficial to the environment, I felt my project could educate about this problem in agriculture. While simultaneously combining components into stile life displays that should and should not be grown in my area.
 
As an artist, I like to explore different mediums and styles to express my views. My work focuses on decay, whether it is seedpods, structures, or our society.  

I believe the current state of photography is mirroring the early 1900’s when Kodak introduced the Brownie camera to the masses. Today, we have the cell phone. In both times, 

Cameras became common and artists took notice.

As the Modernists once did, I want to push the medium in new ways. Using a tradition photography foundation, I digitally altering my photographs or use micro child-like dioramas to discuss social issues facing us."

Todd Bradley (1970, Detroit, USA) is a contemporary macro | digital photographer currently residing in San Diego, California. He works with dioramas, 
alternative portraiture, and digital manipulation. Todd builds scale model dioramas that become is narrative. Todd’s aesthetic focuses on detailed features, 
demonstrating new perspectives to ordinary objects in still time.

IMAGES FOR SALE-

The Aliens 12”x12” on 17” x 17” paper
Archival pigment on
cotton rag archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 5
stamped and signed on back

 


The Colonizers 12”x12” on 17” x 17” paper
Archival pigment on
cotton rag archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 5
stamped and signed on back


 

The Emigrants 12”x12” on 17” x 17” paper
Archival pigment on
cotton rag archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 5
stamped and signed on back


 


The Native 12”x12” on 17” x 17” paper
Archival pigment on
cotton rag archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 5
stamped and signed on back


 


The Settler 12”x12” on 17” x 17” paper
Archival pigment on
cotton rag archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 5
stamped and signed on back



The Wonderer 12”x12” on 17” x 17” paper
Archival pigment on
cotton rag archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 5
stamped and signed on back

Contact: Todd Bradley
MrtoddBradley@gmail.com

 
www.MrToddBradley.com
https://www.instagram.com/mrtoddbradley
L.A. Photo Curator: Global Photography Awards - 'Where Photography & Philanthropy Meet' EXHIBITION #4
SIMULTANEOUS NOW by Stefynie Rosenfeld
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L.A. Photo Curator: Global Photography Awards - 'Where Photography & Philanthropy Meet' EXHIBITION #4
COALESCE by Stefynie Rosenfeld
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