Ken Hawkins
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Ken Hawkins is a photojournalist who has covered politics, disasters, and conflict zones—including Vietnam, Nicaragua, and El Salvador—since 1970, working globally for publications and agencies such as TIME, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Forbes, Paris Match, Stern, the New York Times, Newsweek, Wired, and the British Broadcasting Corporation. For over two decades, his work was represented by the premier photo agency SYGMA Paris/New York.

Ken has served on the boards of several nonprofit agencies relating to the arts, social action, and photojournalism. He was a founder of the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar in 1973 and worked with the organization for thirty years. Ken also served as the Atlanta/Southeast chapter president of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), sitting on its national board and executive committee, and serving as ASMP’s national secretary.

In 2016, Hawkins authored “Jimmy Carter – Photographs 1970 – 2010” with a foreword by Carter White House Deputy Press Secretary Rex Granum.

Alan Fisher (1913-1988)

Robin Matt
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Born in Brooklyn, NY in 1913, a graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School, Alan Fisher became a noted, award-winning daily news photographer in New York City while still in his twenties, taking many iconic photos of people and events, some of which are to be seen in the collections of the Library Of Congress, and elsewhere.

He began freelancing for the New York World Telegram around 1934, and shortly thereafter became a staff photographer for that paper. In 1940 he began working for the daily tabloid, PM.

His career took a new direction when, at the U.S. entry into WWII, he was tapped to work for Nelson Rockefeller’s diplomatic mission to Brazil (OCIAA), where he documented Brazilian daily life, agriculture and industry to introduce America’s new ally to the U.S. public. In the course of his duties, Fisher created many striking portraits of Brazilian farmers, workers and indigenous people. In 1944 he accompanied the FEB (Brazilian Expeditionary Force) as a war corespondent documenting their military achievements in Italy.

After the war, Alan Fisher commenced a long career as a Foreign Service Officer, serving two long tours of duty in Brazil, first in Rio De Janeiro, and later, starting in 1966, in Sao Paulo as a U.S. Consular official. In between, he managed the motion picture division of the USIA in Washington D.C.

Upon retiring to Sarasota, Florida in 1972 he kept his hand in as a part-time staff photographer for the Sarasota Journal and the Sarasota Herald Tribune.

Alan Fisher died in 1988 at the age of 75.  An archive of an estimated 1500 photos is being curated by his nephew, Robin Matt.

Cyrisse Jaffee
https://njayjaffee.com/

N. Jay Jaffee (1921–1999) was a New York photographer who captured the lives of ordinary (and sometimes famous) people, city streets and country landscapes, political movements and private moments. As Janie Welker, curator at the Heckscher Museum in Huntington, New York, noted: “He saw and recorded human activity: a lonely, windswept boardwalk; a whimsical sculpture; men sunning themselves amidst the city grime; the crisp balance of lines and light in a sparkling cityscape; a teddy bear on a clothesline. His photographs not only record the instant, they communicate the substance. The images are exquisite, enduring expositions of lights and shadow, visual textures in balanced tension. They are also filled with wit and humor, and a profound understanding of the ironies in all of our lives.”

In the 1940s and 1950s, Jaffee began photographing the Brooklyn neighborhoods in which he grew up. Manhattan also beckoned, as did Queens, and eventually Long Island. His formal training came after he had been photographing for some time. He attended classes taught by Sid Grossman, of the legendary Photo League, and met with Edward Steichen, then curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art. In 1950, two of his photographs were included in the MOMA group show “Fifty-One American Photographers.”

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Jaffee continued documenting street life in New York, as well as Paris, Canada, New England, and elsewhere. His commitment to social justice, including the anti-war and civil rights movements, led him to photograph political demonstrations, rallies, and concerts. His work also included portraits of well-known subjects, such as Yoko Ono, Pete Seeger, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Sid Grossman, Dan Weiner, Felrath Hines, and Stan Brodsky. Jaffee’s later work focused on images of the land and seascapes—dramatic or serene—poetic statements about the beauty and mystery of the natural environment.

Jaffee’s photographs have been acquired by major museums and institutions, including MOMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian, National Portrait Gallery, Library of Congress, National Museum of American Art, New York Public Library, Bibliotheque Nationale, George Eastman House, and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Exhibits include a major solo show, “Inward Image,” at the Brooklyn Museum in 1981; a 50-year retrospective in 1999, “From Coney Island to Caumsett,” at the Heckscher Museum of Art, and “N. Jay Jaffee Photographs: From Public to Personal” at the University of Maryland in 2014.

Jaffee’s work has been featured in college courses at Yale University, Skidmore College, and Binghamton University. His photographs have also appeared in many magazines and books, including American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital, edited by Keith David, and Cityscapes: A History of New York in Images by Howard B. Rock and Deborah Dash Moore. His book of early photographs, “N. Jay Jaffee: Photographs 1947-1956,” was published in 1976.

John Milisenda

“60 Years of Family Photography”

“The subjects in my photography are my mother, father and developmentally disabled brother. I have been photographing them for over 55 years. My family photography has been in over 100 shows and are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Harry Ransom Collection and Bibliotheque de nationale, Paris. These Images have also appeared in the New York Times, and Smithsonian Magazine. My mother and father are deceased.”

Michael Benari
https://benarifoto.com/

Michael Benari is a widely-exhibited artist who lives and works in Boston and New York. He works in two media, photography and painting. The photographs are black and white using film or digital; the paintings are works on paper using oil stick and squeegee.

Meryl Meisler
http://www.merylmeisler.com
Gallery Representative: ClampArt
info@clampart.com

Meryl Meisler was born in 1951 in the South Bronx and raised in North Massapequa, Long Island, NY. Inspired by Diane Arbus, Jacques Henri Lartigue, and her dad Jack and grandfather Murray Meisler, Meryl began photographing herself, family, and friends while enrolled in a photography class at The University of Wisconsin – Madison. In 1975, Meryl moved to NYC and studied with Lisette Model, continuing to photograph her hometown, NYC street life, the infamous New York discos and sordid nightlife. A 1978 C.E.T.A. Artist Grant supported her portfolio on Jewish identity. After C.E.T.A., Meryl began a three-decade career as a NYC Public School Art Teacher. Upon retirement, she began releasing large bodies of previously unseen work, including three books, A Tale of Two Cities: Disco Era Bushwick (Bizarre, 2014), Purgatory & Paradise SASSY ‘70s Suburbia & The City (Bizarre, 2015) and New York PARADISE LOST Bushwick Era Disco (Paradise Pictures Press, 2021) Meryl lives and works in New York City and Woodstock, NY, continuing the photographic memoir she began in 1973 – sweet and sassy with a pinch of mystery. Her photography is represented by CLAMPART.

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Jane Olin
http://janeolin.com

Jane Olin has worked as an experimental photographer in California’s Monterey Bay area for over thirty years. Living at the epicenter of West Coast photography, she learned the skills and tenets of “straight” photography from the assistants and students of Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. She now prefers to push the conventional boundaries of the wet darkroom, and purposely pours, sprays, and drips photographic solutions onto her exposed gelatin silver paper.

In 2022, Olin’s recent tree-based series Intimate Conversation is featured in Jane Olin-In The Company of Trees, a solo exhibition at NUMU New Museum Los Gatos in Los Gatos, CA, and Trees Stir in Their Leaves, a group exhibition at Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, AZ. Olin’s photography has been featured in solo and group exhibitions including at the Monterey Museum of Art in Monterey, CA, Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, CA and Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA.

Olin has won numerous juror awards, including a 2021 IPA International Photography Award curators’ choice Best of Show. Her work is held in collections including the Center for Creative Photography, Crocker Museum of Art in Sacramento, CA, Monterey Museum of Art, and Triton Museum of Art.

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Ron Sherman

https://ronsherman.com

Ron Sherman’s first published photograph was in junior high school and 60 years later he still gets a great pleasure in seeing his images published.  In 2014, Emory University acquired his 750-silver gelatin collection of 1970s Atlanta prints.  These photographs are available at their Library for research, publication and display.  He is currently editing and digitizing his 500,000 black and white negatives and color transparencies created during his long career.

Ron’s photographs have been published in national magazines ranging from Time, Life, and Newsweek to Business Week, Forbes and Sports Illustrated.  His corporate assignments have been featured in annual reports, brochures and multimedia productions for a wide variety of Fortune 500 companies including IBM, Eastman Kodak, Coca-Cola, BellSouth (now AT&T), and the Southern Company.  For more than 30 years he has made a specialty of capturing the essence of campus life in photo-essays on more then 130 colleges and universities across the United States and Canada.

Photographs from his stock photo library of some 250,000-color images are regularly leased for a variety of publication purposes.  Tony Stone Images and Getty Images represented selected photographs for national and international distribution.  BrownTrout published a Ron Sherman Atlanta calendar from 1994 to 2010.  His images, capturing the classic beauty of Atlanta and Georgia, have also been published in four hardcover photographic books.  

Ron started Computer Aided Photography, Inc. in 1991 to explore the creative possibilities of using a combination of photography and computer technology.  His foresight has allowed him to stay on the leading edge of his craft and complete many unique projects.  With a Fine Arts Degree in Photographic Illustration from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a Masters of Arts in Communications from Syracuse University, Ron has been profiled in a number of photography publications and is listed in Who’s Who in America.

robertkalmanweb.com

Email: Robert Kalman

Over his forty-year career making documentary portraits of strangers, Robert Kalman photographs people in such a way as to make others care about them and remember their stories. His portraits show us more than mere likeness; they reveal a quality of humanness that relates to who they are.

Kalman says, “When making a person’s portrait using large format we enter into a relationship of momentary intimacy. It’s unavoidable. The resulting image has to do with what passes between us.” He continues, “I think everyone has the urge to feel important, to be seen in an authentic, respectful, dignified way. That’s what my work is about. I take on documentary projects to reveal that authenticity within and across cultures that I want to learn about.”

Consequently, among his diverse projects are portraits of Nicaraguan villagers made twenty years apart; New Yorkers approached on the street; elders; straight and LGBT interracial couples; Europeans; police officers; lesbians; Kuna Indians; transgender Israelis; and a dozen more. His current projects, which have been on hold during the pandemic, include returning to Nicaragua to extend to over thirty years his series of villagers, portraits of African American women artists who reside in Brooklyn, and a collection of American portraits entitled, “What’s it like for you to be an American?”

Kalman’s work has appeared in countless publications, solo exhibitions and juried shows throughout the United States, and he is an active member of New York’s Soho Photo Gallery. He and his wife (and collaborator), Linda, live in the Hudson Valley.

Borremans has contributed to more than forty productions and has held thirty-three solo exhibitions of his photography. His photographs are in many museum collections, such as the Canadian Museum of History in Ottawa, the Museum of Fine Arts in Quebec City and private collections in New York City, Japan and China.

For all inquiries related to exhibition, loan requests, reproduction rights, or for more information about this collection contact Ariel Borremans.