NYAB Event - "Frontiers" Exhibition

"Frontiers" Exhibition

Bold Hype Gallery

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Bold hype gallery presents a photography exhibit featuring three of our favorite contemporary documentary photographers: Corey Arnold, Peter Beste, and Celine Clanet. The show is titled 'Frontiers' and is centered around real people, places, and lifestyles that are remote, unknown or inaccessible to most. Each photographer has a unique way of capturing and exposing these worlds with a perfect balance of creativity and objectivity, inviting the viewer in to make their own journey to these remote places and meet their unusual inhabitants...

Corey Arnold:
Corey is a photographer and Alaskan commercial fisherman. From 2003-2010 he worked as a deckhand on the Bering Sea crabber f/v Rollo and more recently, runs a wild salmon gillnetting operation in Bristol Bay, Alaska. The off season is filled with travel, gallery exhibitions, magazine and ad photography assignments with a bit of backyard gardening, cat maintenance, and skateboarding in Portland, Oregon.

He is currently working on a life long project entitled FISH-WORK which chronicles the commercial fishing lifestyle throughout the world. In 2010, a PEW foundation commission led to the Fish-Work Europe series, photographing aboard fishing vessels in eight European countries. in 2005, he received an American Scandinavian Foundation grant to photograph the fishermen and whalers of Northern Norway. Corey was recently nominated for the Aperture West Book Prize and the Santa Fe Prize for Photography, and named one of PDNs 30 for 2009. His pictures have been featured in The Paris Review, Esquire, Italian Rolling Stone, The Sunday Telegraph, Artweek, Outside, and Juxtapoz.

Peter Beste:
Peter Beste is a New York based documentary photographer best known for his passion for photographing fringe subcultures - Most notably, his work documenting the infamous world of Norwegian black metal and Houston Rap Culture. Bold Hype will be premiering images from Beste's new body of work entitled Scandinavian, which is a a look into rural Scandinavia and Danseband culture commissioned by Norway's first Rock 'n' Roll museum Rockheim.

Celine Clanet:
Céline Clanet is an emerging photographer based in Paris, France. Her work deals with human territory, memory and identity issues

Since 2005, I have been traveling regularly to Máze, a small Sámi village located at the highest point of the European map, far above the Arctic Circle, in Norwegian Lapland. There, I met quiet people, sometimes melancholic, captivating, who are very proud of their village and territory. They often have binoculars at hand, even in their homes, to gaze at these beautiful landscapes.

"I have photographed Sámi people, houses, land and reindeer that were almost not here today. They barely escaped being flooded by the waters of a hydroelectric dam project that the Norwegian government planned in the early 1970's and thanks to Sámi people's protests and resistance was fortunately aborted.
But I have also photographed a reality that will undoubtedly transform in the coming century, due to global warming and cultural integration.

To me, Máze is an ambivalent symbol of resistance and helplessness.

Pride as well as suspicion, solitude and great beauty prevail there. In the most beautiful tundra of the Arctic region, I tasted Ante's and Ole Ailo's favorite season, when days get longer and temperatures become milder. The perfect moment, when time doesn't exist anymore and night is gone, when they immerse themselves in their favorite activities: fishing through ice holes in Lake Suolojávri and riding the snøskuter in the tundra. And all these hours spent with friends, family, outside on a reindeer skin, in a hytte or under a lávvu, talking, joiking, or lying down doing nothing, saying nothing. Just being."