Donna Ferrato “TriBeCa: The Collection”
Leica Gallery in New York
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The TriBeCa that Donna Ferrato found when she came to live there almost twenty years ago is no longer the neighborhood that it was then, no more so than she is that same person. As a kind of release from the intense experience of her brilliant documentation of the brutality of domestic violence, Donna began to photograph the simpler life she found in the neighborhood. As she transformed one floor of an old warehouse on Leonard Street into a creative living/ work space, she too was transformed. Slowly evolving from her photojournalism roots, Donna became an artist whose subject now is where she calls home. Anyone who runs across her on these downtown streets can tell you, she is seldom without her Leica. The arc of her working life has settled here; her insight and mastery of the photograph and what it reveals is evident to all.
Her book TRIBECA is a deeply passionate exploration of ten years of living there after 9/11, the great tragedy that marked the neighborhood as it did no other place. The familiar storefronts, the cobbled streets, the dazzling new structures are fresh again through her eye. The strollers, the families, the faces - celebrated or anonymous - blend with the half-seen ghosts of those who made TriBeCa what it is: the generations of immigrants, gangsters, captains of industry and artists who walked here. TriBeCa’s old-world grace and simplicity never look better than in her balance of light and shadow. As Ferrato says, “Photographing TriBeCa has taught me to take time when looking for the light, to honor the faces and places which greet me as familiar friends. America’s most historic neighborhood… despite its enduring spirit, is still in a fragile transition period. The Triangle Below Canal. Also known as TriBeCa.”
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from November 15, 2013 to January 04, 2014