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Artist Statement:
In my work I photograph people
who have a deep felt sense of
tradition. For a year of days
beginning in the Autumn of
1999, I lived in a remote
village in the Maramuresh
region of northern
Transylvania, Romania. This
area came to my attention
through my love of Balkan Folk
Dancing. My research revealed
the Maramuresh region to be
unique amongst the former
Soviet Bloc for the way it had
preserved its way of life.
After World War II, for forty
years of communist rule, a few
valleys in Maramuresh escaped
collectivized farming because
of poor soil and hilly
landscape. In the post
cold-war period, preservation
continues because of pervasive
impoverishment which slows the
advancement of modernity into
the reaches of northern
Transylvania.
But nothing will stand still
forever. While the older
generation still don winter
footwear that pre-date the
Romans, the younger generation
flock to market to buy shoes
bearing that ubiquitous swoosh
of western manufacture.
My purpose is to capture and
convey images of their way of
life before it becomes further
compromised by globalization.
In our modern world, we often
feel we have “lost” something
important, something precious.
Though they do not know it ...
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FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
2004 HCP Photography Fellowship, Houston Center for Photography, Texas
2002-3 Fulbright Senior Scholarship, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, Washington, D.C.
2002-3 Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO) Fellowship, International Research & Exchange Board; National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Washington, D.C.
2003 United States Department of State Federal Assistance Award
HONORS AND AWARDS
2009 Worldwide Photography Gala Awards, Documentary Finalist
2006 2nd Place Award, The New Documentarian, Julia Dean Workshops, Marina del Rey, California
2006 Excellence Award, B&W Magazine, Special Portfolios Issue, June 2006, Arroyo Grande, California
2005 Professional Honorable Mention, Culture, International Photography Awards
2005 Professional Honorable Mention, Portrait, International Photography Awards
2005 Top 50, Critical Mass Winner 2005, Photolucida, Portland, Oregon
2005 Merit Award, Portraiture/Children, B&W Magazine Single Image Contest Awards
2002 1st Place Award, Photo Review 2002 Photography Competition, Langhorne, Pennsylvania
2002 4th Place Award: Portrait & Costume Category, Humanity Photo Award 2002, Beijing, China
2002 2nd Place Award, Women’s Center Juried All Media Exhibition, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho
2001 Best in Competition, Gallery Print Photographic Awards, Stillwater, Minnesota
2001 1st Place Category Award, Documentary, Gallery Print Photographic Awards, Stillwater, Minnesota
2001 1st Place Award May All Media Show, Shockoe Bottom Arts Center, Richmond, Virginia
2001 2nd Place Award, 7th Biennial Juried Competition in Southeastern Photography,
Crealdé School of Art, Winter Park, Florida
2001 Photography Award, Spectra ’01, Third National Photography Biennial, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, Connecticut
1999 1st Place Student Award, 1st Annual Richard Nagler Photography Competition, Judas Magnes Museum, Berkeley, California
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 South Pasadena Art Walk, South Pasadena, California
2007 Robert V. Fullerton Museum, Ellis Gallery, Cal State University, San Bernardino, California
2005 Visual Arts Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
2004 Lawton Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, Wisconsin
2004 Charleston Heights Cultural Arts Center Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada
2003 Mind's Eye Gallery, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho
2003 Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest, Romania
2003 National Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2002 Galeria, National Academy of Art, Bucharest, Romania
2002 Ethnographic Museum, Sighetu Marmatiei, Romania
2002 University of California Berkeley Extension, San Francisco, California
2002 East-West Gallery, Romanian Cultural Center, New York, New York
2001 Romanian Embassy, Washington, DC
2-3 PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2008 SilverEye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2006 Art6 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
2005 Edouard de Merlier Gallery, Cypress College, Cypress, California
2004 Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, Oregon
2003 Eastern Kentucky University, Giles Gallery, Richmond, Kentucky
2003 Gheorgheni Cultural Center, Harghita, Romania
2003 The People’s Palace, Bucharest, Romania
2001 Soho Photo Gallery, New York, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Picturing the Process: Beauty and Body Image, Museum of Photographic Art, San Diego, California
2010 Invitational Julia Dean Silent Auction, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2008 The Indomitable Spirit, Starlight Auction, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2007 Denver International Airport Invitational Exhibition, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado
2006 Aftermath Auction, Dawson’s Book Shop, Los Angeles, California
2006 Generations of Caring, Methodist's Hospital's Center for Performing Arts Medicine, Houston, Texas
2006 People, Places and Things, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado
2006 Photo Narratives, The College Art Gallery, Cazenovia College, New York
2006 Selected Works Invitational, Gallery Print Photographers, Oxygen Gallery, St. Paul, MN
2005 Romania Redrawn, Photo West Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2005 Transylvania Romania, Julia Dean Workshops Gallery, Marina del Rey, California
2005 Juried Membership Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas
2005 Mark Woolley Gallery, One Foot After Another: Photography, Portland, Oregon
2005 Photo-Eye Gallery, First Annual Juried Photographer's Showcase, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2004/5 Humanity Photo Award 2004, Guangdong Museum of Art, China, UNESCO Headquarters,
Paris, France, UN Pavilion 2005 EXPO, Aichi, Japan
2004 HCP 2004 Fellowship Recipients, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas
2004 Culture and Agriculture, New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, Wisconsin
2003 Invitational Photo Exhibition, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana
2003 The 146th Royal Photographic Society Exhibition, Stoke Museum and Art Gallery, England
2003 The Contemplative Man, Cultural Center, University of Nantes, France
2002 The Photo Review 2002 Competition Exhibition, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2002 Lancaster Museum of Art’s Photo National 2002, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
2002 Humanity Photo Award 2002, Beijing, China
2002 Midwest Photography Invitational: XII, Lawton Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, Wisconsin
2002 The 145th Royal Photographic Society Exhibition, Stoke Museum and Art Gallery, England
2002 Contemporary Photography in Virginia, Western Virginia Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia
2002 Gallery Print Photographic Awards, Gallery Print, Stillwater, Minnesota
2002 Women’s Center Juried Exhibition, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho
2002 Threads of Tradition, Smithtown Township Arts Council, New York
2001 Annual Juried Photography Exhibition 2001, Corporate Museum & Frame Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
2001 7th Annual National Photography Competition, Texas Artists Museum, Port Arthur, Texas
2001 Folio, Charles H. Taylor Arts Center, Hampton, Virginia
2001 9th International Photographic Art Exhibition, Scengde City, China
2001 Latent Images, Our Dream Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2001 Spectra ’01, Third National Photography Biennial, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, Connecticut
2001 Honoring the Crone, WomanMade Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2001 Current Works 2001, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, Missouri
2001 The 144th Royal Photographic Society Exhibition, Stoke Museum and Art Gallery, England
2001 She-Painting, East-West Gallery, Romanian Cultural Center, New York, New York
2001 Fresh Works, A Celebration of Virginia Photography, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
2001 7th Biennial Juried Competition in Southeastern Photography, Crealdé School of Art, Winter Park, Florida
1999 1st Annual Richard Nagler Photography Competition, Judas Magnes Museum, Berkeley, California
ON-LINE EXHIBITIONS
2006 Her Circle e-zine, A Year of Days. An article and portfolio of a year spent in Maramures, Romania.
2004 photoeye.com Photographer’s Showcase Gallery
2003 WIPI.org - Women In Photography International
2002 SightPhoto.com
2001 GalleryPrint.com
2001 IRIS - International Centre for Women in Photography, Staffordshire University, England
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