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Juried Competition Honorable Mention Molly Matalon, born in 1991, is a photographer from South Florida. She received her BFA in photography from The School of Visual Arts in New York City. “In The Morning and Amazing draws on a common perception that associates sites in the domestic sphere — beds, couches, kitchens, and the boudoir — with the feminine, but reorganizes those spaces to feature male subjects. In my photographic practice I come to occupy those spaces with men, and exert a degree of control and power I have not found in my other entanglements with them, romantic or otherwise. I use familiar aspects of the domestic space as tools or props in the fantasy I’m constructing. In turn, these objects take on sensual or erotic valances. These still-lifes are fleshy, in various states of consumption, and speak to the moments in, before, during, and after sex. In my romantic novel, they are the punctuation. In this world men look at me the way I want to be looked at.” 📷: ‘Joe (Black Socks),’ 2017. @mollymatalon #baxterstccny #photography
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Juried Competition Honorable Mention Molly Matalon, born in 1991, is a photographer from South Florida. She received her BFA in photography from The School of Visual Arts in New York City. “In The Morning and Amazing draws on a common perception that associates sites in the domestic sphere — beds, couches, kitchens, and the boudoir — with the feminine, but reorganizes those spaces to feature male subjects. In my photographic practice I come to occupy those spaces with men, and exert a degree of control and power I have not found in my other entanglements with them, romantic or otherwise. I use familiar aspects of the domestic space as tools or props in the fantasy I’m constructing. In turn, these objects take on sensual or erotic valances. These still-lifes are fleshy, in various states of consumption, and speak to the moments in, before, during, and after sex. In my romantic novel, they are the punctuation. In this world men look at me the way I want to be looked at.” 📷: ‘Watermelon Shell,’ 2017. @mollymatalon #baxterstccny #photography
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Juried Competition Honorable Mention Sam Light (American, b. 1996) graduated with Honors from Pratt Institute in May 2018, receiving his BFA in Photography. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. “”Space”, both in concept, and physicality, defines understanding. In every moment, the quality of found, and the satisfaction of construction, exist as a means to build up and tear down experience. Existing within this natural tension, the product of successful manipulation intentionally notes that fate is both self-made, yet predetermined. As the studio becomes a construction site, images narrate past moments in present contexts. Was it real? Imagined?” 📷: ‘The Entire World,’ 2018. @lightboy_ #baxterstccny #photography
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Juried Competition Honorable Mention Sam Light (American, b. 1996) graduated with Honors from Pratt Institute in May 2018, receiving his BFA in Photography. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. “”Space”, both in concept, and physicality, defines understanding. In every moment, the quality of found, and the satisfaction of construction, exist as a means to build up and tear down experience. Existing within this natural tension, the product of successful manipulation intentionally notes that fate is both self-made, yet predetermined. As the studio becomes a construction site, images narrate past moments in present contexts. Was it real? Imagined?” 📷: ‘Unexplained House Fire,’ 2018. @lightboy_ #baxterstccny #photography
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Juried Competition Winner Jenna Westra (Hunter MFA ’15) is a New York based artist working with photography and film. “Problems with representations of the body are central to my work– specifically, how perceived ownership and viewership of images mandate shifting power structures. I use the body as a central tool to speak about themes of intimacy and the gaze. Moving away from documentary tropes and towards image production and representation itself, the resulting images create meaningful form through gesture and body language. My works represent an experience of active communication that is both verbal and not.” 📷: Claudia on Fire Escape,’ 2018. @jjennawestraa #baxterstccny #photography
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Juried Competition Winner Jenna Westra (Hunter MFA ’15) is a New York based artist working with photography and film. “Problems with representations of the body are central to my work– specifically, how perceived ownership and viewership of images mandate shifting power structures. I use the body as a central tool to speak about themes of intimacy and the gaze. Moving away from documentary tropes and towards image production and representation itself, the resulting images create meaningful form through gesture and body language. My works represent an experience of active communication that is both verbal and not.” 📷: ‘Body Blocks 4,’ 2018. @jjennawestraa #baxterstccny #photography
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Juried Competition Honorable Mention Andrew Gowen is a Manhattan-based photographer from the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, currently going into his senior year at Parsons School of Design in New York. “In my work, I focus on the compositions that unfold in the quotidian details that surround me. I look to my friends, and the different environments that we inhabit, that will change over time but that we take for granted. As my friends, the landscape, and I aged—and outgrew the shells from our teenage years—I shifted the focus of my lens to create a world of reverie based in reality that is tangible.” 📷: ‘Sophie’s Backyard,’ 2018. @andrewgowen #baxterstccny #photography
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Juried Competition Honorable Mention Andrew Gowen is a Manhattan-based photographer from the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, currently going into his senior year at Parsons School of Design in New York. “In my work, I focus on the compositions that unfold in the quotidian details that surround me. I look to my friends, and the different environments that we inhabit, that will change over time but that we take for granted. As my friends, the landscape, and I aged—and outgrew the shells from our teenage years—I shifted the focus of my lens to create a world of reverie based in reality that is tangible.” 📷: ‘Shane and Lauren,’ 2017. @andrewgowen #baxterstccny #photography
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Juried Competition Honorable Mention Paloma Dooley grew up in New York and earned a BA in photography from Bard College. “I investigate the strange and often arbitrary ways people draw lines over the land. I am drawn—over and over again—to fences, barriers, walkways, paths, highways, and walls that, together, form a visual vocabulary of movement, ownership, belonging, and division between person and person, or between person and land. I am interested in picturing the borders and barriers that people erect arbitrarily and enforce haphazardly, but I also want to look at the ways that people undermine and evade systems of organization and control.” 📷: ‘Palm Court,’ 2017. @pomonadoobie #baxterstccny #photography