NYAB Event - New Members and Marius Zgirdea, Margery Franklin, and Paul Stetzer Exhibition

New Members and Marius Zgirdea, Margery Franklin, and Paul Stetzer Exhibition

Soho Photo Gallery

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Marius Zgirdea’s latest solo show is entitled My Life (People Asking Why?) Zgirdea says, “I created a collage that combines color and black and white photography to symbolize an enormous change in my family’s life. Being in the process of adopting a child from Ethiopia, we are facing many challenges that made us more courageous and eager to hold our child for the first time in our arms. Sadly there are at least 4.5 million children in Ethopia’s orphanages because their parents couldn’t afford to keep them. It’s not the child’s fault they end up in orphanages; they are born without the right to choose...but we do. People are asking us why? We answer–because we can.”

Margery Franklin’s new exhibition is called On the Edge: New York City Waterfront. Franklin says, “The waterfront of New York City is replete with structures and buildings from earlier times. Some are still in use, others are in ruins. Several of the structures shown in my photographs have already been demolished. The places I photograph are sites of work – factories, warehouses, piers and unidentified structures – once vital parts of a still thriving harbor. In presenting these 12 images, I aim to represent the passage of time, the past as manifest in the present.”

Paul Stetzer’s latest solo show is entitled Crane Beach/Sand Matters. He explains, “Crane Beach is the ocean side of a barrier island on the coast of Ipswich, Massachusetts. The interplay of light and sand and water and wild things endlessly dazzle and fascinate. Living creatures mark the sand while water sculpts the sand and sculpts it again. What the natural world makes ephemeral these images make more lasting.”

There will also be a new members’ group show in February that will present the work of four of Soho Photo’s newest members.

[Image: Margery Franklin]