David Wright – Peter ($100) for A River Blue ; David is one of the Pause | to begin founders, featured on oitzarisme.
“In January and February 2009 I spent 2 months in the small village of Alebtong, Uganda. Peter is one of only a few elderly leaders because most were abducted and brutally killed by the Lord’s Resistance Army for not offering support to fight the Ugandan Army. Absence of elderly persons amongst the communities has adversely affected their culture and development.”
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Jon Feinstein – 8 Grams ($40) for Housing Works; featured on oitzarisme.
“This series uses a typological study of burgers, fries, chicken nuggets, etc. to investigate the love/hate relationship that many Americans have with fast food and, like many other details of global culture, its ability to be simultaneously seductive and repulsive.”
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Sonja Thomsen – crawfish (lacuna detail) (sold out) for charity : water ; featured on FlakPhoto.
“The photograph is one of seventy-five images from my 2009 photographic installation titled lacuna, which considers memory and aging.”
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Elizabeth Fleming – Hammock ($40) for Austin Children’s Shelter
“This image is from an ongoing body of work called Life is a series of small moments, which is my attempt to create lasting documents of transient moments, specifically within the realm of childhood and child-rearing.”
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Ben Huff – Facing North (sold out) for Gift of Life Transplant House.
“This image of an abandoned home on the coast of the Arctic Ocean was taken during an afternoon layover in Barrow in November, 2009.”
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Allison Smith - Island House (sold out) for La Reunion TX .
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pausetobegin.com

“Pause, to Begin is a unique project born in discussions about the direction of contemporary photography today. A competition geared towards the emerging photographer, Pause, to Begin selected 15 photographers in April, 2008. After a juried selection, the creators of Pause, to Begin drove 10,000 miles to meet and interview the selected photographers about their work.

A lasting goal of Pause, to Begin has been to better expose passionate photographers in a fresh and unique manner.  This goal has been accomplished in many ways.  First, Pause, to Begin produced multimedia presentations about each photographer.  The presentations showcase each photographer’s images while they speak candidly about their work.

Second, Pause, to Begin held it’s first exhibition on January 2nd, 2008 at Booksmart Studio in Rochester, New York.  The exhibition consisted of 94 photographs from the 15 photographers.

Finally, Pause, to Begin produced a Catalogue Edition Book that showcases the selected photographers and their photographs.  The book also includes a foreword by Pause, to Begin Editorial Director Susan Morelock.  The book was published by Booksmart Studio and hand bound at New Ridge Bindery, both in Rochester, New York.

By working closely with a team of artists and an advisory board that includes John Paul Caponigro, Joyce Tenneson and Cig Harvey, Pause, to Begin continues to strive to create a one-of-a-kind experience for the artist and viewer.”

Tealia Ellis Ritter – The Live Creature and Ethereal Things

Hin Chua (previously blogged) – After The Fall

Timothy Briner – Boonville

Brea Souders – Time Between

Colin Blakely – Somewhere in Middle America

Shannon Johnstone (previously blogged) – Silent Home

“Studio Equis Limited was created in 2004 with the aim of broadening knowledge and access to the visual arts between different cultures, with an emphasis on the relationship between Japan and the West.
Our current focus is on post-war and contemporary Japanese photography thanks to our privileged access to a wide range of works by leading Japanese photographers. Since our inception we have worked directly with photographers and their estates to develop projects including exhibitions, publications and sales in Europe and the United States, focusing on different aspects of modern Japanese photography.”

Hiroshi Hamaya

Tadahiko Hayashi

Kazuyoshi Nomachi

Eikoh Hosoe

Hiromi Tsuchida

Koichiro Kurita

Nailya Alexander Gallery specializes in European and American contemporary, Russian vintage (1920s-1960s) and WW II photography. The gallery’s focus has been the rediscovery of lesser known, significant periods and artists in the history of photography, dedication to gallery artists and support of emerging talent. Nailya Alexander represents the Arkady Shaikhet and Max Penson Estates. She has mounted museum quality exhibitions such as Staging Happiness: The Formation of Socialist Realist Photography (2004), Remembering WW II (2005), Alexander Zhitomirsky: Photomontages 1931-1973 (2005), Turkestan: Orientalism in Soviet Avant-Garde Photography (2006), Unforeseen: The Personal in Photography from Soviet Russia (2007). Gallery exhibitions have been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Sun, ARTnews and Art in America. Gallery artists have gained critical acclaim and international recognition, and are included in the collections of major European and US museums.

Nailya Alexander is a member of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD). Her gallery participates in the annual AIPAD Photography Show in New York City.

Nicholas Hughes

Evgeny Mokhorev

Irina Nakhova

George Tice

Remigijus Treigys

Alexey Titarenko (previously blogged)

Nailya Alexander Gallery
41 E 57th Street Suite 704
New York, NY 10022
212-315-2211
info@nailyaalexandergallery.com