Online Group Show - "Life in the Pandemic” - at Davis Orton Gallery

Davis Orton Gallery - In this online exhibit, each selected artist has been asked to provide a brief statement about their work and life in the pandemic.

Claude Peschel Dutombe

‘Dreams of a Distant Place’ is an attempt to reconstruct the visuals of my childhood daydreams when my mind started wandering, driven by a politically suppressed Wanderlust while growing up behind the iron curtain of the cold war in East Berlin.
For the past 15 months all those feelings of longing for escape were brought back to me while being locked up again due to the pandemic.

Featured in this exhibition are three works from ‘Dreams of a Distant Place’.

View the entire show HERE.

"Blue Skies” @ 'Don't Take Pictures'

In conjunction with the theme of Don't Take Pictures current print issue, “The Blue Issue,”an online exhibitions “Blue Skies” has been curated by Kat Kiernan.

BLUE SKIES

Blue skies/smiling at me/nothing but blue skies/do I see… 

The blue sky can be a canvas against which hot air balloons float gracefully, people are silhouetted, and clouds gracefully float. Peeking through trees, seen from airplane windows, or reflected in water—in all seasons, the blue sky above us is fodder for photographs. In conjunction with the theme of our current print issue, “The Blue Issue,” Don’t Take Pictures presents photographs of the blue sky.

View the exhibition here.

featured in this exhibition is new work from ‘Dreams of a Distant Place’

"mercy of the moon" at A. Smith Gallery

New work from ‘Dreams of a Distant Place’ made it into this show at A. Smith Gallery.

Juried by the galleries co-director Kevin Tully.

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Online Group Exhibition - "Noir” April 2021

Analog Forever Magazine is pleased to showcase 73 images in this month’s online exhibition, entitled “Noir,” and curated by independent publisher, curator, educator, and photographer, Blue Mitchell. The selected photographs explore, both thematically and literally, the themes of Film Noir. Films that are known for the strange, erotic, ambivalent, and cruel themes of their plots that combine unexpected camera angles and contrasted lighting to make you feel.

The curator, Blue Mitchell, had this to say:
“With the mix of implied narrative and realism, I feel like you made an art film in stills that serves as an homage to the auteur film movements of yesteryear.”

featured in this exhibition is new work from ‘Dreams of a Distant Place’

Night Life Editors’ Pick on LifeFramer

Night Life Editors’ Pick

“Following the juror’s selection of winning images for our recent NIGHT LIFE competition, this compilation of 20 images represents some of the other talented photographers whose work struck us and left a mark. Each a stunning image worthy of exposure and attention…

These are intended to be a conversation starter… so feel free to join the discussion on our social networks.”

From the series Dreams of a Distant Place – “An attempt to recreate childhood day-dreams of faraway unknown places to a young boy growing up behind the iron curtain in East-Berlin in the early 80s. An ongoing body of work in progress photographed in many different locations world-wide. All images here are in-camera double-exposures printed on instant film.”

Editor’s comment: A surreal and figurative recreation of distant memory – the mystery of night can give us space to let our imaginations push boundaries and create narratives around certain events. The photographer’s skill of in-camera double exposure enables them to create as much of the image as possible in the moment itself, the process alone being a representation of how we create our memories. The photographer seems to be creating a story book of single images to navigate and make sense of these distant events and memories, and their unique style and approach is engaging.

Seities Magazine, issue “Landscape”

Seities Magazine’s new issue is all about “LANDSCAPE” and it turned out to be another stunning publication.

Two works from ‘Dreams of a Distant Place’ have been included.

Copies are still available for purchase HERE.

‘Color’, a juried group show @ SE Center For Photography

For the 1st time ‘Dreams of a Distant Place’ is showing assemblage work in this show at SE Center for Photography.

Juried by Blue Mitchell from One Twelve Publishing.

Full selection HERE.

Assemblage from ‘Dreams of a Distant Place’.

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Seities Magazine, issue themed “Open”

Seities Magazine’s 10th Anniversary Publication features 50+ local, national and international analogue photographers who utilize unique traditional processes in their contemporary photography practices.

One piece from the series "Wings of Desire" is featured here.

Get your copy of this beautiful issue HERE.