brooklyn NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

kevin COOLEY: The goal of this project was to spend one month in Siglufjörður , the most northern town and one of the most remote areas in Iceland photographing the remarkable light they have there in the winter time. I was also working on Natural Forces a long term video project about the classic elements of water, earth, fire, and wind and our struggles as humans to live among these forces.

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bozeman MONTANA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

bryan SCHUTMAAT: For the past few years, I’ve been taking intermittent trips westward. I’m moved by the mountains, the open spaces, and all the other natural beauty the American West has to offer. But I’m also moved by the places in between—the old cafes, motels, gas stations, and so on. These days, both the wilderness and these small businesses seem to be in peril as developers move in and alter the physical and economic landscape. So, through photography I aim to preserve these aspects of the West that seem to be vanishing. From my trips, I developed this series, Western Frieze, which examines America’s cultural identity and how it relates to the landscape and whatever mystique the West has left.

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paris FRANCE

shelby lee WALSH: Underwater photography gets dirty with Valerie Morignat’s captivating underwater photos. Also known as a film director and an artist, Valerie has an impressive portfolio where you will find pictures full of bubbles, fun uses of light, lots of water and nude models galore.

The grace and elegance that exudes from these photographs is intoxicating. Valerie’s artwork has been internationally displayed and praised, and judging by these underwater photos, will continue to be for quite some time.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

ian sample: Sussman has only two criteria that organisms must meet before they become one of her prized subjects. They must be more than 2,000 years old (an arbitrary figure, she says) and the organism must have lived continuously for the period. So far she has photographed more than 20 life forms, from shrubs and predatory fungi to Siberian bacteria and domed corals that look like giant brains.

The collection offers a rare perspective of life on Earth. Some of the organisms Sussman has captured look alien. Many were alive in the bronze age. Others were eking out an existence long before modern humans rose up and migrated out of Africa.

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ICELAND

batteries not included: Who are your own icons - or who inspires you?

ragnar AXELSSON: There are many. I look at photographs from all around the world and many photographers makes me feel happy just seeing their work.
I do like the old masters like W. Eugene Smith a lot and the old LIFE photographers which I think were great and they inspiered me a lot. Mary Ellen Mark is a good friend of mine and I like her work and her passion for photography a lot. Henry Cartier bresson is also one of my favorite.
Nowadays I think James Nachtwey is one of the greatest ones - he is quiet and is always showing some great stuff.

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toronto CANADA

since 2004, toronto-based photographer eamon MAC MAHON has spent up to three months of each year working in the wilderness of northwestern canada and alaska. these slow journeys via bush plane have allowed him to intimately photograph remote landlocked communities, and the vast areas of uninhabited land surrounding them. his work has appeared in various publications including the walrus, national geographic, w and new york magazine, as well as exhibition spaces such as the power plant, the detroit institute of the arts, the griffin museum of photography in boston and higher pictures nyc. mac mahon’s photographs, on display for contact, 2008 at pearson international airport, were described as “magnificent and mysterious” by kate taylor for the globe and mail.

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jaroszow POLAND

glistening in the early morning, these insects look like creatures from another planet as dew gathers on their sleeping bodies.
captured in extreme close-up, one moth appears to be totally encrusted in diamonds as it rests on a twig.
dragonflies, flies and beetles also take on an unearthly quality as the water droplets form on them.
these remarkable photographs were taken by physiotherapist miroslaw SWIETEK at around 3am in the forest next to his home.

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new york NEW YORK

for immediate release:
march 24 – april 24, 2010

david zwirner is pleased to present glass house, james WELLING’S fifth solo show at the gallery. the exhibition consists of new photographs documenting philip johnson’s iconic glass house, built in 1949 in new canaan, connecticut.

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tokyo JAPAN

“2010 frantic underlines” supports the radical changes that are happening just now in the contemporary japanese art scene. we observe the decline of the despotic empire of the “wonderland”-style art and consequent unfolding of a plurality of new dimensions in contemporary art. we stand now at a crossroad that could lead in multiple directions. we see art that exists in parallel to the bubbled surface of the superflat-micropop history. we foresee new exhibitions that are based on contemplation and consciousness, not the empty self-obliterating hedonism of amusement parks. we make 2,010 frantic underlines to mark one of starting line for the art of the future and to provide vectors that lead to those artists who have actually always been here.

image: cosmos sulphureus by macoto MURAYAMA

long island city NEW YORK

suckerpunch: describe your project.

shinichi MARUYAMA: as a young student, i often wrote chinese characters in sumi ink. i lover the nervous, precarious feeling of sitting before an empty white page, the moment just before my brush touched the paper. i was always excited to see the unique result of each new brushing.

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