Atlanta Art Fair 2024: Booth B09

Sheila Pree Bright Biography Sheila Pree Bright is a renowned international photographic artist and the mind behind the celebrated book #1960Now: Photographs of Civil Rights Activists and Black Lives Matter Protests. Bright's expansive artworks weave deep insights into contemporary culture. Her iconic series include Plastic Bodies, Suburbia, #1960Now, Invisible Empire,Young Americans, and an evocative portrayal of the 90s Hip Hop scene. Her incredible artistry finds a spot in the compilation and exhibit Posing Beauty in African American Culture. The 2014 documentary Through the Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People and the 2016 film Election Day:...View artist page

Saïdou Dicko Biography Saïdou Dicko was born in Burkina Faso in 1979. He lives and works in Paris, France. Saïdou is a self-taught visual artist (photographer, videographer, installer and painter). At the age of five, Dicko, a Fulani Shepherd, learned to draw by collecting shadows of his sheep on the Sahel soils. Naturally, the shadow is present in all of his work. In 2005, he began to experiment with photography. Six months after his photographic debut, he presented his first exhibition in the 2006 Dakar Biennial Off, where he won a prize, the first in a long series. Through painting,... View artist page

Shanequa Gay Biography Shanequa Gay is a visual artist based in Atlanta, GA, renowned for her surrealist acrylic paintings that delve into the multifaceted universes within the spirit of the Black Woman. Her artwork engages with tradition, place, storytelling, and subject matter to create imaginative dialogues and alternative self-imaging strategies. Shanequa Gay 's multidisciplinary practice spans painting, illustration, video, performance, and monumental sculpture, crafting environments filled with memorials and rituals. Through these mediums, Shanequa Gay portrays mythical figures, new deities, and images of individuals impacted by inequality. Notable works like Devout Griot and The Fair Game Project feature hybrid beings... View artist page

Nan Goldin Biography As a teenager in Boston, Massachusetts, photographer Nan Goldin gained notoriety for her intimate portraits of close friends in the city’s gay and transsexual communities. These friends, often drag queens and other members of marginalized society, became the subjects of her most well-known project, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. Later, in New York City and throughout travels in Europe and Asia, her work would continue to champion and celebrate members of these alternative subcultures through storytelling in intimate and autobiographical ways. Born in 1953, Goldin grew up in the suburbs of Boston. In the late 60’s, jarred... View artist page

Sally Mann Biography

Born in Lexington, Virginia, Sally Mann began to study photography in the late 1960s, attending the Ansel Adams Gallery’s Yosemite Workshops in Yosemite National Park, California, and the Putney School and Bennington College, both in Vermont. She received a BA from Hollins College, Roanoke, Virginia, in 1974 and an MA in creative writing the following year. At a moment when many other photographers were creating large-scale color prints, Mann looked to photography’s past, investigating the visual and metaphorical potential of employing nineteenth-century technologies. She has long used an 8 x 10 bellows camera and has explored platinum,...

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Alex Prager Biography Alex Prager is a known American art photographer and filmmaker, based in Los Angeles, California, who draws inspiration from a wide range of influences and references, including Old Hollywood aesthetics, pop culture, and street photography. Her works are elaborately staged scenes that merge past and contemporary sources to create a sense of ambiguity. Much of Prager's photographs invite those viewing her work to 'complete the story' and speculate the narrative. A set of popular series, Polyester (2007), The Big Valley (2008) , and Week-End (2009), depicts images of women expressing distress, despair, or contemplation that implants an... View artist page

Meghann Riepenhoff Biography With her unique cameraless photographs, Meghann Riepenhoff (b. 1979; Atlanta, GA) captures the ebb and flow of time, examining humans’ relationship with the environment and our impermanent place within it. Cyanotypes are one of the oldest photographic processes, dating back to 1842, and are a camera less photograph created by exposing paper coated with a solution of iron salts to ultraviolet light. Riepenhoff works in unison with river and ocean currents, allowing wind, water, and sediment to imprint on the paper’s surface; she also exposes the paper to rain or snow, revealing crystals, droplets, and kaleidoscopic patterns... View artist page

Steve Schapiro Biography

Steve Schapiro was an American photojournalist who documented six decades of American culture, from the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy to Andy Warhol’s Factory and the filming of The Godfather trilogy. He published a dozen books of his photographs, exhibited his work in shows from Los Angeles to Moscow, and is represented in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the J. Paul Getty Museum, among others. His photographs have appeared in museum and gallery exhibitions worldwide. The High Museum of Art’s...

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Mark Steinmetz Biography

Mark Steinmetz (b. 1961) is an Athens, Georgia-based photographer whose work captures black-and-white images of Southern Americana as seen in urban, rural and suburban landscapes. “I like to stress the poetry and ambiance of a place, while still trying to be truthful,” he has remarked, and his candid shots of everyday life reflect this statement. Examples of this sentiment are strikingly portrayed in Steinmetz's new photo series Terminus, showing the everyday moments of people passing through airports. “At the airport, people from all over the world and from all walks of life can be found in the...

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