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Inception
Located in New York, NY
French photographic artist, Jean Philippe Kadzinski currently resides in New York, where he produces rhythmic depictions of the opportune city. Born in a small village in Lorraine, t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Price Upon Request
Postman 2
By Maleonn
Located in New York, NY
The son of a known Chinese drama director and a very famous actress, Maleonn grew up in an artistic environment, where he began to study art when only 11 years old. After graduating ...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Price Upon Request
Book of Taboo 8
By Maleonn
Located in New York, NY
The son of a known Chinese drama director and a very famous actress, Maleonn grew up in an artistic environment, where he began to study art when only 11 years old. After graduating ...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Price Upon Request
Déjà Vu No.11
By Maleonn
Located in New York, NY
The son of a known Chinese drama director and a very famous actress, Maleonn grew up in an artistic environment, where he began to study art when only 11 years old. After graduating ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Price Upon Request
Terrain De Jeux
Located in New York, NY
Christophe Pouget started his artistic career in 2008, when he created his first photographic assemblages. Focused on the affective relationship of time and space, his latest works a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Price Upon Request
Canal Grande Concerto
Located in New York, NY
Christophe Pouget started his artistic career in 2008, when he created his first photographic assemblages. Focused on the affective relationship of time and space, his latest works a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Price Upon Request
Praia Vermelha
Located in New York, NY
Christophe Pouget started his artistic career in 2008, when he created his first photographic assemblages. Focused on the affective relationship of time and space, his latest works a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Photographic...
Price Upon Request
The Corner
Located in New York, NY
Christophe Pouget started his artistic career in 2008, when he created his first photographic assemblages. Focused on the affective relationship of time and space, his latest works a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Photographic...
Price Upon Request
Behind the Scenes
Located in New York, NY
Christophe Pouget started his artistic career in 2008, when he created his first photographic assemblages. Focused on the affective relationship of time and space, his latest works a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Price Upon Request
Wan Chai
Located in New York, NY
Christophe Pouget started his artistic career in 2008, when he created his first photographic assemblages. Focused on the affective relationship of time and space, his latest works a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Price Upon Request
City Trees
Located in New York, NY
French photographic artist, Jean Philippe Kadzinski currently resides in New York, where he produces rhythmic depictions of the opportune city....
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Purity (Horizontal)
Located in New York, NY
French photographic artist, Jean Philippe Kadzinski currently resides in New York, where he produces rhythmic depictions of the opportune city. Born in a small village in Lorraine, t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Price Upon Request
Damasked
By Reka Nyari
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerment. The series joins six women together, each who have faced adversity, to demonstrate the creation of a strengthened self-image through tattoos. By highlighting the intricate woven threads of ink on each woman’s skin, Nyari proposes the idea that self-empowerment and reconciliation with one’s traumas can be linked to the act of greeting one’s “own skin” or inventing their own story.
Nyari has now elevated these intimate photographs in her new Punctured Ink series through the process of puncturing botanical-like references into the surface of each image (thus making each one of a kind). Her inspiration to physically puncture the previously pristine photographic prints stemmed from a childhood memory that occurred while she was living in Finland: “I remembered my parents had this big pad of paper next to the home phone...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Price Upon Request
Beyond the veil
By Reka Nyari
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerment. The series joins six women together, each who have faced adversity, to demonstrate the creation of a strengthened self-image through tattoos. By highlighting the intricate woven threads of ink on each woman’s skin, Nyari proposes the idea that self-empowerment and reconciliation with one’s traumas can be linked to the act of greeting one’s “own skin” or inventing their own story.
Nyari has now elevated these intimate photographs in her new Punctured Ink series through the process of puncturing botanical-like references into the surface of each image (thus making each one of a kind). Her inspiration to physically puncture the previously pristine photographic prints stemmed from a childhood memory that occurred while she was living in Finland: “I remembered my parents had this big pad of paper next to the home phone...
Category
2010s Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Pho...
Price Upon Request
Idea
By Reka Nyari
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerment. The series joins six women together, each who have faced adversity, to demonstrate the creation of a strengthened self-image through tattoos. By highlighting the intricate woven threads of ink on each woman’s skin, Nyari proposes the idea that self-empowerment and reconciliation with one’s traumas can be linked to the act of greeting one’s “own skin” or inventing their own story.
Nyari has now elevated these intimate photographs in her new Punctured Ink series through the process of puncturing botanical-like references into the surface of each image (thus making each one of a kind). Her inspiration to physically puncture the previously pristine photographic prints stemmed from a childhood memory that occurred while she was living in Finland: “I remembered my parents had this big pad of paper next to the home phone...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Photogram...
Price Upon Request
Yaa-sama Tears
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerment. The series joins six women together, each who have faced adversity, to demonstrate the creation of a strengthened self-image through tattoos. By highlighting the intricate woven threads of ink on each woman’s skin, Nyari proposes the idea that self-empowerment and reconciliation with one’s traumas can be linked to the act of greeting one’s “own skin” or inventing their own story.
Nyari has now elevated these intimate photographs in her new Punctured Ink series through the process of puncturing botanical-like references into the surface of each image (thus making each one of a kind). Her inspiration to physically puncture the previously pristine photographic prints stemmed from a childhood memory that occurred while she was living in Finland: “I remembered my parents had this big pad of paper next to the home phone...
Category
2010s Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographi...
Price Upon Request
Beauty of Atatori
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerment. The series joins six women together, each who have faced adversity, to demonstrate the creation of a strengthened self-image through tattoos. By highlighting the intricate woven threads of ink on each woman’s skin, Nyari proposes the idea that self-empowerment and reconciliation with one’s traumas can be linked to the act of greeting one’s “own skin” or inventing their own story.
Nyari has now elevated these intimate photographs in her new Punctured Ink series through the process of puncturing botanical-like references into the surface of each image (thus making each one of a kind). Her inspiration to physically puncture the previously pristine photographic prints stemmed from a childhood memory that occurred while she was living in Finland: “I remembered my parents had this big pad of paper next to the home phone...
Category
2010s Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Pho...
Price Upon Request
My Circus No. 10
By Maleonn
Located in New York, NY
The son of a known Chinese drama director and a very famous actress, Maleonn grew up in an artistic environment, where he began to study art when only 11 years old. After graduating ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Price Upon Request
Penn Station
Located in New York, NY
Christophe Pouget started his artistic career in 2008, when he created his first photographic assemblages. Focused on the affective relationship of time and space, his latest works a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Price Upon Request
Miami Vibes
Located in New York, NY
Christophe Pouget started his artistic career in 2008, when he created his first photographic assemblages. Focused on the affective relationship of time and space, his latest works a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Price Upon Request
Book of Taboo 2
By Maleonn
Located in New York, NY
The son of a known Chinese drama director and a very famous actress, Maleonn grew up in an artistic environment, where he began to study art when only 11 years old. After graduating ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Price Upon Request
What is Love No. 4
By Maleonn
Located in New York, NY
The son of a known Chinese drama director and a very famous actress, Maleonn grew up in an artistic environment, where he began to study art when only 11 years old. After graduating ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Price Upon Request
Manikarnika
Located in New York, NY
Christophe Pouget started his artistic career in 2008, when he created his first photographic assemblages. Focused on the affective relationship of time and space, his latest works a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Price Upon Request
La Ville Blanche
Located in New York, NY
Christophe Pouget started his artistic career in 2008, when he created his first photographic assemblages. Focused on the affective relationship of time and space, his latest works a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Price Upon Request
Enigma in Shinjuku
Located in New York, NY
Christophe Pouget started his artistic career in 2008, when he created his first photographic assemblages. Focused on the affective relationship of time and space, his latest works a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Price Upon Request
Bleu Blanc Rouge
Located in New York, NY
Christophe Pouget started his artistic career in 2008, when he created his first photographic assemblages. Focused on the affective relationship of time and space, his latest works a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Price Upon Request
Des Voeux RD
Located in New York, NY
Christophe Pouget started his artistic career in 2008, when he created his first photographic assemblages. Focused on the affective relationship of time and space, his latest works a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Price Upon Request
Kissing Despite it All
Located in New York, NY
Born in 1967 in a small village in the south of Israel, Eitan Vitkon is an acclaimed contemporary photographer whose work has been exhibited and applauded worldwide. In 1996, Eitan m...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Price Upon Request
Engine
Located in New York, NY
French photographic artist, Jean Philippe Kadzinski currently resides in New York, where he produces rhythmic depictions of the opportune city. Born in a small village in Lorraine, t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Price Upon Request
Rest - An East Hamptons beach storm and seabirds
By Jean- Michel Lenoir
Located in New York, NY
49" x 70" Ed. of 8 $9,800 & larger
41" x 59" Ed. of 10 $6,800
36" x 50" Ed. of 6 $5,200
30" x 42" Ed. of 6 $3,600
Recommended option to use museum glass/acrylic priced on request
In this photograph, Lenoir captures a calming seascape featuring a group of piping plovers on East Hamptons beach...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Landscape Photography
Materials
Glass, Paper, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Pigment, Archiv...
Red Old School
By Antoine Rose
Located in New York, NY
By hanging out of a helicopter hovering 300 feet in the air, Antoine Rose uniquely captures the Hamptons from a sharp 90 degree angle. This piece is a snapshot of shared beach activi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Acrylic Polymer, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archiva...
Price Upon Request
Gossip Girls
By Antoine Rose
Located in New York, NY
By hanging out of a helicopter hovering 300 feet in the air, Antoine Rose uniquely captures the Hamptons from a sharp 90 degree angle. This piece is a snapshot of shared beach activi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Acrylic Polymer, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archiva...
Price Upon Request
Followers
By Antoine Rose
Located in New York, NY
By hanging out of a helicopter hovering 300 feet in the air, Antoine Rose uniquely captures the Hamptons from a sharp 90 degree angle. This piece is a snapshot of shared beach activi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Acrylic Polymer, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archiva...
Price Upon Request
Blue leader
By Antoine Rose
Located in New York, NY
By hanging out of a helicopter hovering 300 feet in the air, Antoine Rose uniquely captures the Hamptons from a sharp 90 degree angle. This piece is a snapshot of shared beach activi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Acrylic Polymer, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archiva...
Price Upon Request
White Powder Lines
By Antoine Rose
Located in New York, NY
By hanging out of a helicopter hovering 300 feet in the air, Antoine Rose uniquely captures the Hamptons from a sharp 90 degree angle. This piece is a snapshot of shared beach activi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Acrylic Polymer, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archiva...
Price Upon Request
Children of God I
By Drew Tal
Located in New York, NY
With his works included in the permanent collection at the Norton and the New Britain Museum, Drew Tal’s successful career has been nothing but a soaring ascension into the global ar...
Category
2010s Photorealist Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Price Upon Request
Lilah with Bird
By Drew Tal
Located in New York, NY
With his works included in the permanent collection at the Norton and the New Britain Museum, Drew Tal’s successful career has been nothing but a soaring ascension into the global ar...
Category
2010s Photorealist Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Price Upon Request
The Kiss with Red Lips
Located in New York, NY
Picture depicting kissing people, made with thorns from Israel with video of the kiss projected on it the photographed by the artist.
Eitan Vitkon is an Israeli artist renowned world...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Price Upon Request
Trust
By Drew Tal
Located in New York, NY
With his works included in the permanent collection at the Norton and the New Britain Museum, Drew Tal’s successful career has been nothing but a soaring ascension into the global ar...
Category
2010s Photorealist Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Price Upon Request
Secrets Windows
By Drew Tal
Located in New York, NY
With his works included in the permanent collection at the Norton and the New Britain Museum, Drew Tal’s successful career has been nothing but a soaring ascension into the global ar...
Category
2010s Photorealist Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Price Upon Request
Land of Milk and Honey
By Reka Nyari
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Photogram...
Price Upon Request
Levitate
By Reka Nyari
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerm...
Category
2010s Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Photogram, Archival Pi...
Price Upon Request
Bud of the Bud
By Reka Nyari
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerment. The series joins six women together, each who have faced adversity, to demonstrate the creation of a strengthened self-image through tattoos. By highlighting the intricate woven threads of ink on each woman’s skin, Nyari proposes the idea that self-empowerment and reconciliation with one’s traumas can be linked to the act of greeting one’s “own skin” or inventing their own story.
Nyari has now elevated these intimate photographs in her new Punctured Ink series through the process of puncturing botanical-like references into the surface of each image (thus making each one of a kind). Her inspiration to physically puncture the previously pristine photographic prints stemmed from a childhood memory that occurred while she was living in Finland: “I remembered my parents had this big pad of paper next to the home phone...
Category
2010s Surrealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Photogram, Archival Pi...
Price Upon Request
Efflorescence
By Reka Nyari
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Photogram, Archival Pi...
Lament
By Drew Tal
Located in New York, NY
With his works included in the permanent collection at the Norton and the New Britain Museum, Drew Tal’s successful career has been nothing but a soaring ascension into the global ar...
Category
2010s Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Price Upon Request
Drop Dead
Located in New York, NY
Black and White photography.
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Photogram, Archival Pi...
Price Upon Request
The Cure for Life
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Photogram, Archival Pi...
Price Upon Request
Canal Grande Concerto
Located in New York, NY
Christophe Pouget started his artistic career in 2008, when he created his first photographic assemblages. Focused on the affective relationship of time and space, his latest works a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Price Upon Request
GAIA
By Reka Nyari
Located in New York, NY
Print is also available in a Medium size: 50'' x 40'' and is priced at $13,000. It is a black and white photographic print, with uniquely handmade puncture designs by the artist, set...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Plexi...
Price Upon Request
THUONG NGAN (FOREST GODDESS)
By Reka Nyari
Located in New York, NY
Print is also available in a Medium size : 50'' x 40'' and is priced at : $13,000. A black and white photographic print, with uniquely handmade puncture designs by the artist, set in a black shadow box frame.
The new series “Punctured Ink” incorporates works from Nyari’s ongoing, portrait project titled “Ink Stories”.
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerment. The series joins six women together, each who have faced adversity, to demonstrate the creation of a strengthened self-image through tattoos. By highlighting the intricate woven threads of ink on each woman’s skin, Nyari proposes the idea that self-empowerment and reconciliation with one’s traumas can be linked to the act of greeting one’s “own skin” or inventing their own story.
Nyari has now elevated these intimate photographs in her new Punctured Ink series through the process of puncturing botanical-like references into the surface of each image (thus making each one of a kind). Her inspiration to physically puncture the previously pristine photographic prints stemmed from a childhood memory that occurred while she was living in Finland: “I remembered my parents had this big pad of paper next to the home phone in Finland and I would use my mother’s sewing needles to poke patterns into the paper”.
This nostalgic memory in combination with the longing to apply her physical, painterly abilities resulted in the choice to transform these photographs via puncturing the paper. Unlike painting or drawing on the surface of each print, the raised, brail like holes created leave a permanent result, just as a tattoo does on one’s skin. While the surface of an artwork, like skin, is typically preserved and or avoided, Nyari follows in the subject’s footsteps by purposely destroying the pristine surface in order to create a new narrative. The act taps into a long history of tribal scarification which signified a right of passage, permitting the individual to transcend their past traumas and transforming their evolved selves. This notion grounds all of her works.
In addition, Nyari’s choice to puncture nature-based patterns into each portrait also has its own significance. She stated that when “talking about scarification and getting over trauma, to me, nature is one of the most healing and beautiful elements.”
As Nyari is emphasizing through her photographs, when you add a personal story onto the skin, it is a whole new layer that often becomes biographical. It translates a story to the audience of one’s past, future and wishes. While this concept existed in her previous photographic series, now, through puncturing the surface of each, Nyari is adding another layer of permanence onto her works’ meaning, therefore becoming, as she calls it “ink cubed”.
————————————————————————————————————————————
Born in 1979 in Helsinki, and raised in Finland and Germany, Nyari came to New York City at the age of seventeen. While here, she studied at the School of Visual Arts where she not only began to model but found her passion for photography. Using inspiration from masters such as Helmut Newton and Cindy Sherman, Nyari’s work employs and explores the traditional ideal of beauty and gender to portray sexuality from a predominately female perspective. She utilizes technical elements such as gestures, nudity, the subject’s gaze, objects and more to link this connection of the empowered feminine identity. Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries throughout the United States and Europe and through such exposure, she has received multiple prestigious awards including the first-place winner of the International Photography Awards in 2010, Beauty Pro Category. Her 225-page Monograph titled “Femme Fatale: Female Erotic Photography...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Plexi...
Price Upon Request
FILLE DE REVE
By Reka Nyari
Located in New York, NY
Print is also available in a large size : 63'' x 50'' and is priced at : $16,000. Each work is a one of a kind, unique piece that is hand punctured. The work also comes with a black floating frame.
The new series “Punctured Ink” incorporates works from Nyari’s ongoing, portrait project titled “Ink Stories”.
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerment. The series joins six women together, each who have faced adversity, to demonstrate the creation of a strengthened self-image through tattoos. By highlighting the intricate woven threads of ink on each woman’s skin, Nyari proposes the idea that self-empowerment and reconciliation with one’s traumas can be linked to the act of greeting one’s “own skin” or inventing their own story.
Nyari has now elevated these intimate photographs in her new Punctured Ink series through the process of puncturing botanical-like references into the surface of each image (thus making each one of a kind). Her inspiration to physically puncture the previously pristine photographic prints stemmed from a childhood memory that occurred while she was living in Finland: “I remembered my parents had this big pad of paper next to the home phone in Finland and I would use my mother’s sewing needles to poke patterns into the paper”.
This nostalgic memory in combination with the longing to apply her physical, painterly abilities resulted in the choice to transform these photographs via puncturing the paper. Unlike painting or drawing on the surface of each print, the raised, brail like holes created leave a permanent result, just as a tattoo does on one’s skin. While the surface of an artwork, like skin, is typically preserved and or avoided, Nyari follows in the subject’s footsteps by purposely destroying the pristine surface in order to create a new narrative. The act taps into a long history of tribal scarification which signified a right of passage, permitting the individual to transcend their past traumas and transforming their evolved selves. This notion grounds all of her works.
In addition, Nyari’s choice to puncture nature-based patterns into each portrait also has its own significance. She stated that when “talking about scarification and getting over trauma, to me, nature is one of the most healing and beautiful elements.”
As Nyari is emphasizing through her photographs, when you add a personal story onto the skin, it is a whole new layer that often becomes biographical. It translates a story to the audience of one’s past, future and wishes. While this concept existed in her previous photographic series, now, through puncturing the surface of each, Nyari is adding another layer of permanence onto her works’ meaning, therefore becoming, as she calls it “ink cubed”.
————————————————————————————————————————————
Born in 1979 in Helsinki, and raised in Finland and Germany, Nyari came to New York City at the age of seventeen. While here, she studied at the School of Visual Arts where she not only began to model but found her passion for photography. Using inspiration from masters such as Helmut Newton and Cindy Sherman, Nyari’s work employs and explores the traditional ideal of beauty and gender to portray sexuality from a predominately female perspective. She utilizes technical elements such as gestures, nudity, the subject’s gaze, objects and more to link this connection of the empowered feminine identity. Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries throughout the United States and Europe and through such exposure, she has received multiple prestigious awards including the first-place winner of the International Photography Awards in 2010, Beauty Pro Category. Her 225-page Monograph titled “Femme Fatale: Female Erotic Photography...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Black and White, Digital, Pigm...
Price Upon Request
Green Shore
By Antoine Rose
Located in New York, NY
After receiving his first camera at the age of 8 years old, self-taught photographer Antoine Rose developed an eye for the medium through his travels and time spent taking photos of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Price Upon Request
Retroflag
Located in New York, NY
Using the facades of red and blue buildings, Kadzinski recreates the stars and stripes of the American flag. Beige stripes that are cracking like paint go between the rows of red fac...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Ninos de la Calle 2
By Steve Schlackman
Located in New York, NY
This digital print is part of a limited edition set.
Steve Schlackman is a lawyer by profession and a photographer by choice. Fascinated by the magical world of photography since his youth, he honed this skill over time, meticulously pouring over all things photographic, technical and creative alike, with unstoppable enthusiasm. Steve’s passion for taking photographs was ignited early on, during a study-abroad trip to Paris, where he immersed himself in all things art historical. Diligence, a strong trait Schlackman is known for, paid off, and after daily meanderings at the Louvre, a great love for art emerged along with hundreds of photographs. These pictures proved to be early tributes to the urban landscape, and although they didn’t amount to full-on series, a seed was planted.
The omnipresent tension between the poor neighborhoods of the Cuban capital, as a result of political dictatorship, and the rich Afro-Cuban cultural roots of their inhabitants, whose wealth is represented by their music and feelings, is physically visible in Steve’s use of high contrast, a metaphoric touch on the subject of the light and darkness of the Afro-Cuban heritage. Although intentionally apolitical, the pictures speak volumes about the Cuban status quo and, appropriately, the eternal joy of living despite socio-political hardship.
Play, in and of itself a mode to survive the harsh reality, represents another subject Steve is keen on capturing. Whether it is adults playing dominoes...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Digital, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The City
Located in New York, NY
This work contains various photographs of the external view of hundreds of residential buildings in New York.
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass
Moon 04
By Bob Tabor
Located in New York, NY
Edition of 8
Bob Tabor's new series titled “Night Muse ”, plays on this fascination as he is able to capture, what he believes to be, the rebirthing energy incorporated in the moon ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Digital
Price Upon Request
Titillation of Mary
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Photogram, Archival Pi...
Price Upon Request
Tyrfing
Located in New York, NY
Black and white photography.
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Pho...
Price Upon Request
Maquina 1
By Steve Schlackman
Located in New York, NY
Black and white photography in Cuba.
Category
2010s Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Digital, Digital Pigment
Fans of Gion Kobu
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerm...
Category
2010s Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Photographic P...
Price Upon Request