Sofia Verzbolovskis "Diablos Rojos: Fin de una era"
Grady Alexis Gallery
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Diablos Rojos: Fin de una era is a photographic tribute to Panama City's retiring buses and main public transportation from 1950 to 2011, when they began to be replaced by modern "user-friendly" equipment.
Today, more than 600 buses sit abandoned in a junkyard in the city's outskirts, awaiting cremation.
Over the past few years my dad, Lucas Verzbolovskis, had been wanting to document Diablos Rojos as Panama's most important urban art, especially after their removal from circulation. Then, in January 2012, after several attempts at getting the permit to photograph them, we made our way to this junkyard and documented their unique frames, whose paintings depict magical landscapes, celebrities global and local, the drivers' own family members, religious imagery and popular Panamanian sayings.
Sofia Verzbolovskis is a New York based, Panamanian photographer. After getting her degree in economics and Latin American studies at NYU in 2009, she traveled to Accra, Ghana as a volunteer in a local school. While in Ghana, Sofia began to focus on photography.
She returned to New York to follow a photo-journalism course at the International Center of Photography (2010-2011). Her photos have been published in Huffington Post, Musee Magazine, Wall Street Journal, among others. More recently a series of photos taken with an iPhone were exhibited in galleries in Oklahoma, Vermont and Colorado.
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from September 21, 2012 to October 19, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-09-21 from 18:00 to 20:00