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Juried Competition Winner Jenna Westra (Hunter MFA ’15) is a New York based artist working with photography and film. “Problems with representations of the body are central to my work– specifically, how perceived ownership and viewership of images mandate shifting power structures. I use the body as a central tool to speak about themes of intimacy and the gaze. Moving away from documentary tropes and towards image production and representation itself, the resulting images create meaningful form through gesture and body language. My works represent an experience of active communication that is both verbal and not.” 📷: Claudia on Fire Escape,’ 2018. @jjennawestraa #baxterstccny #photography
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Juried Competition Winner Jenna Westra (Hunter MFA ’15) is a New York based artist working with photography and film. “Problems with representations of the body are central to my work– specifically, how perceived ownership and viewership of images mandate shifting power structures. I use the body as a central tool to speak about themes of intimacy and the gaze. Moving away from documentary tropes and towards image production and representation itself, the resulting images create meaningful form through gesture and body language. My works represent an experience of active communication that is both verbal and not.” 📷: ‘Body Blocks 4,’ 2018. @jjennawestraa #baxterstccny #photography
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Juried Competition Honorable Mention Andrew Gowen is a Manhattan-based photographer from the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, currently going into his senior year at Parsons School of Design in New York. “In my work, I focus on the compositions that unfold in the quotidian details that surround me. I look to my friends, and the different environments that we inhabit, that will change over time but that we take for granted. As my friends, the landscape, and I aged—and outgrew the shells from our teenage years—I shifted the focus of my lens to create a world of reverie based in reality that is tangible.” 📷: ‘Sophie’s Backyard,’ 2018. @andrewgowen #baxterstccny #photography
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Juried Competition Honorable Mention Andrew Gowen is a Manhattan-based photographer from the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, currently going into his senior year at Parsons School of Design in New York. “In my work, I focus on the compositions that unfold in the quotidian details that surround me. I look to my friends, and the different environments that we inhabit, that will change over time but that we take for granted. As my friends, the landscape, and I aged—and outgrew the shells from our teenage years—I shifted the focus of my lens to create a world of reverie based in reality that is tangible.” 📷: ‘Shane and Lauren,’ 2017. @andrewgowen #baxterstccny #photography
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Juried Competition Honorable Mention Paloma Dooley grew up in New York and earned a BA in photography from Bard College. “I investigate the strange and often arbitrary ways people draw lines over the land. I am drawn—over and over again—to fences, barriers, walkways, paths, highways, and walls that, together, form a visual vocabulary of movement, ownership, belonging, and division between person and person, or between person and land. I am interested in picturing the borders and barriers that people erect arbitrarily and enforce haphazardly, but I also want to look at the ways that people undermine and evade systems of organization and control.” 📷: ‘Palm Court,’ 2017. @pomonadoobie #baxterstccny #photography
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Juried Competition Honorable Mention Paloma Dooley grew up in New York and earned a BA in photography from Bard College. “I investigate the strange and often arbitrary ways people draw lines over the land. I am drawn—over and over again—to fences, barriers, walkways, paths, highways, and walls that, together, form a visual vocabulary of movement, ownership, belonging, and division between person and person, or between person and land. I am interested in picturing the borders and barriers that people erect arbitrarily and enforce haphazardly, but I also want to look at the ways that people undermine and evade systems of organization and control.” 📷: ‘Verdant Subway,’ 2017. @pomonadoobie #baxterstccny #photography
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Juried Competition Honorable Mention Rose Marie Cromwell is a photographic and video artist based in Miami and received a BFA degree from Maryland Institute College of Art in Art Photography and Cultural Studies in 2005, and an MFA from Syracuse University in Art Photography in 2013. “I came of age in Havana, not only as a person, but also an artist. This work is an homage to my experience of a specific geography. I am honoring the symbols and occurrences that have shaped my understanding of a place and time. I documented my relentless search for intimacy and spirituality, while navigating the politics of my presence in Cuba, as photographer and ultimately an outsider.” 📷: ‘Revolucion,’ 2010-2016. @rorosiemarie #baxterstccny #photography
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Juried Competition Honorable Mention Rose Marie Cromwell is a photographic and video artist based in Miami and received a BFA degree from Maryland Institute College of Art in Art Photography and Cultural Studies in 2005, and an MFA from Syracuse University in Art Photography in 2013. “I came of age in Havana, not only as a person, but also an artist. This work is an homage to my experience of a specific geography. I am honoring the symbols and occurrences that have shaped my understanding of a place and time. I documented my relentless search for intimacy and spirituality, while navigating the politics of my presence in Cuba, as photographer and ultimately an outsider.” 📷: ‘Martica,’ 2010-2016. @rorosiemarie #baxterstccny #photography
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Juried Competition Honorable Mention and collaborative duo Ian Kline and David Billet. Kline was born in 1994 in York, Pennsylvania. He received his BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2017 and currently lives and works in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Billet is an artist currently living and working in Baltimore, MD, who works primarily in photography. Billet Received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in the fall of 2017. “We set out, interested in a larger understanding of masculinity, specifically in relationship to a current political climate where the shoot first, ask questions later, mentality has been resurrected. The two of us had never been to Texas prior to this trip. The two of us wanted to see, as singular people and as partners, where we fit into this landscape that held so much influence to our understanding and our elders understanding of masculinity, America, and life.” 📷: ‘Laying in The Grass,’ 2017. @iankline @icy_squid #baxterstccny #photography
