ABIGAIL REYNOLDS

AMBACH & RICE is pleased to present COLLIDER, new works by London based artist ABIGAIL REYNOLDS. The occasion marks the artist’s first U.S. solo exhibition.

The series consists of collages comprised of found book pages sourced from atlases, encyclopedias and guidebooks. Reynolds scours used bookshops and flea markets to recover images of landmarks, monuments and landscapes printed at a similar scale and shot from approximate vantage points by separate photographers at different points in time. The two corresponding bookplates are merged through a series of incisions and folds, which result in an undulating three-dimensional honeycomb like surface in which the entirety of each page is preserved.

Within the latticework of familiar tourist destinations the unyielding correlation between time and place is ruptured and paused. Reynolds delicate collage work asserts a topographical representation of time that expresses the activity these oft visited sites dictate and inspire. (...)

In addition Reynolds collages serve as a commentary on photography’s notion of the ideal perspective and the medium’s inability to operate without bias. The repetitious perspective in the found book pages confirms man’s conscious or subconscious impulse to represent place with strict precision. This synchronistic popularized documentation inevitably influences society’s relationship to place through democratic identification and classification, replacing objective experience and associations with superficial constructions. In the process sites become cultural signifiers with impenetrable auras, fixed in the infinite present.

ABIGAIL REYNOLDS lives and works in London and Cornwall. She received her Masters of Art degree from Goldsmiths College, London, UK. Her work has been exhibited throughout Europe and the US. Recent solo exhibits include Strange Attractor at Seventeen, London, UK. In addition she operates Assembly, a live work residency program located in St. Just, Cornwall, UK.


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THE SELBY

I discovered last week (thanks to François @ PHOTOGAB) the site THE SELBY and I have been spending most of my computer time since going through all his pictures. So much fun! So for those of you who, like me, did not know about this site, you should check it out. It's great.

Who is The Selby?

Todd Selby is a portrait, interiors, and fashion photographer and illustrator. His project The Selby offers an insider’s view of creative individuals in their personal spaces with an artist's eye for detail. The Selby began in June 2008 as a website, www.theselby.com, where Todd posted photo shoots he did of his friends in their homes. Requests quickly began coming in daily from viewers all over the world who wanted their homes to be featured on the site. The Selby’s website became so popular—with up to 55,000 unique visitors daily—that within months, top companies from around the world began asking to collaborate.

These joint projects have included a large ad campaign and web project with Nike 6.0, a solo show at colette, an international ad campaign for Habitat, work for the New York Times T Magazine, and frequent contributions to Vogue Paris and Architectural Digest France. Todd’s first book, The Selby is In Your Place, was released in May 2010 by Abrams.

Before working on this project full time Todd worked as a translator and Tijuana tour guide to the International Brotherhood of Machinists, a researcher into the California strawberry industry, a Costa Rican cartographer, a consultant on political corruption to a Mexican Senator, an art director at a venture capital firm, an exotic flower wholesaler, a Japanese clothing designer, and a vermicomposting entrepreneur. Todd currently lives in New York City. His pastimes include eating four square meals a day, planning vacations, breaking his computers, and working on his tan.


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NATHAN HARGER

NATHAN HARGER photographs objects, scenes and spaces in the everyday urban environment such as highways, cranes, bridges, airplanes, power lines, factories and other structures behind the massive forms of production that shape American culture.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1976, Nathan Harger received his B.F.A. in photography from the Cleveland Institute of Art. He completed his M.F.A. in photography at Parsons the New School for Design in 2008. His exhibition debut in New York City was in the critically acclaimed exhibition, Contradictions in Black and White, an exhibition that placed his work alongside Irving Penn, Margaret Bourke-White, Walker Evans and Ray K. Metzker in 2009. His work has consistently been featured in several publications including New York Magazine. Harger has been honored as one of Photo District News’ “30 Under 30,” a list of “emerging photographers worth watching,” and has been nominated for the 2009 Santa Fe Prize for photography and the 2010 Prix Pictet. His images were also included in American Photograph’s portfolio of “Images of the Year” for 2008 and Wallpaper Magazine’s “Photo Graduate Directory of 2009.” He was recently included in Aperture Gallery’s exhibition States of Flux. His photographs were acquired by and are in the permanent collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art.


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LUC COIFFAIT

LUC COIFFAIT is a self-taught photographer from the North-East of England.

Devoting all his time to his photography, Luc has already achieved a many awards, accolades and publications. Namely an award from Fujifilm, published work in several photography magazines and fashion magazines, as well as being made in-house photographer at London-based War! fashion magazine. He can even count a role of production for a recent Lavazza shoot and having work exhibited at The Print Space, to his ever-expanding CV.

Luc made the step into photography having been selected out of 1000s of applicants to a job at the world-famous Spring Studios. This was after a recommendation to Spring from Getty's agency, Orchard Represents. Having worked on a number of shoots for the likes of Vogue, Numero, Cartier, Topshop, ID and many more, Luc progressed into assisting some incredibly talented fashion and beauty photographers.

At only 21 years old, Luc is considered one of the most promising fashion photographers around, Luc has gained a worldwide fanbase resulting in over 1,000,000 website hits a year! He is now concentrating more on his own work, testing with models from IMG, Elite, Models1, Storm, D1 and working closely with a number of magazines & clients in London, Milan and New York…

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MAUDE ARSENAULT

MAUDE ARSENAULT
Born and raised in Montreal, Maude Arsenault studied communication and film before starting out as a fashion photographer 14 years ago.

Maude lived in Sydney (Australia) and Paris before settling back in Montreal, where she works on personal art projects when not busy shooting for her North American and European editorial and advertising clients.

Her work has been published in : Vogue (Australia), ELLE (Canada), Nylon, Harper’s Bazaar, SummerWinter, B&W magazine, Oyster, Seed, Poster, Flare, Zink, FQ, AvantGard, and Madame Figaro.

In 2004 Maude was awarded « Fashion photographer of the year » in Australia.

She is now preparing a solo exhibition based on textured portraits called « Tâches ».


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