Maria Passarotti

Smokers At Closing Time

2009

Digital chromogenic print from negative

Maria Passarotti graduated in 2000 with a BFA from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York. Her most recent photographs are inspired by the intersection o...

Chromogenic print from negative

Digital C-Print, 36 1/2 × 29 in, edition 3/10

Kenneth Snelson (American, 1927-2016). Photograph depicting a panorama of the Seine river and bridges in Paris, France Hand signed, dated 1985, numbe...

Oasis (Sidewinder), 2005 80x80cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on 16 Polaroids. Artist inventory Number 3001. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. "private history turned into an intimate mythology of elemental fantasies where reality is perceived through a veil of psychedelic memories and unconscious projections. such is a collection of passions and dreams, an uncanny diary of ephemeral narratives and mental intensities in Stefanie Schneider’s painterly photographs where subjectivity of an ontological doubt uses a poetics of pastische as a vehicle for an intertextual journey towards the truth and the authenticity of primary emotions. here time is immersed in a nostalgic suspense of oneiric dimension, a sort of ambiguous coma of silence and comfort, and open space embraces a psychotic landscape of solitude and accidental pleasure. fetishized surface of extreme feelings gives a stage for an unsolicited promise of unconditional love and unlimited freedom, a promise framed by sensual tension between fulfillment and expectation." - Adam Budak, Kusthaus Graz, 2005 Sidewinder
 There’s blood on the dress that hangs in the Airstream trailer outside 29 palms. With the pistol in her sweat palm touching his temple. Tell me what god’s gonna do for me and you know Stevie’s saying while Brother John Baptiste looks there across to where her cat seems weak and fed. All the good that comes to me from my believing man, I wanna hear about it said to me like that. Just the way you breathed it like you did 10 minutes ago when I was wrapped so well around your head. Silence then. A baby screams his mother out in the desert night...

'Mercury in the Dust' shows a classic American car donut driving on a Norfolk beach in the East of England. This photograph was captured at Hemsby Rock a...

'One Tree Hill', from Richard Heeps series, Thurrock, A Different Light. Landscape photography, captured in Langdon Hills Country Park for a series Richa...