James Estrin “Observance”
Weill Art Gallery/ 92nd Y
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The images were taken in a variety of spaces including churches, synagogues, mosques, Hindu and Buddhist temples, prison sweat lodges, kitchen tables and childbirth suites. Together they reveal the search for transcendence and the divine as an essential part of the human experience.
“While religious rituals are visually lush, spiritual experience is interior and hidden. The challenge for me is capturing the essence of an invisible event” Mr. Estrin said.
Robert Gilson, Director, 92nd Street Y School of the Arts and the curator for exhibits in the Weill Art Gallery, remarked “While Estrin photographs a wide variety of topics for the Times, his work on spirituality seemed particularly fitting for 92Y’s Weill Art Gallery. He has the capacity to capture the most intimate of moments in a thoroughly unobtrusive and revealing way.”
Mr. Estrin was the driving force behind the founding of LENS, the New York Times’ photography blog, and has been its co-editor since it went online in 2009. He has covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict several times, photographed the devastation in Haiti following the 2009 earthquake and chronicled the journey of immigrants between Mexico and the United States. He was part of a Pulitzer Prize winning team, which examined how race is lived in America, in 2001. Mr. Estrin is an adjunct professor at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He also teaches at the School of Visual Arts Digital Photography Graduate Program.
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Schedule
from January 07, 2014 to March 03, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-01-07 from 17:00 to 19:00