Cheryl Dunn lives and works in New York, she's an accomplished filmmaker and photographer. Always pointing her camera at the people, places and cultures that she finds most fascinating. The corners of life that most of society over look. she started out taking photographs of misfits and outsiders in New York and moved on to film in 1997; shooting her first feature 'Sped' - A series of vignettes on young artists from the skateboarding world.
"By pointing the lens at something. I am asking a question, and the photograph is sometimes the answer" - Lisette Model.
New Gallery Ivory & Black in Soho proudly present Cheryl Dunn's new exhibition "Sometimes The Answer". It features a wide range of the photographs from Dunn's 30 years of signature documentation. "At first It may seem ambiguous. But I think it is timely, given the political climate in the world and our inundation with media, collective sanity i very difficult. Nothing is cut and dry, so the answer needs to come from within. When I feel insane, I head to the streets" - Cheryl Dunn. Within this selection of work Dunn lets her instinct guide it, inviting the viewer to draw their own conclusion and revise their own opinions, or see things in a new light. The exhibition is accompanied by the release of a limited edition artists book of her photographs.
Dunn's photographs feel like a fresh view on documentary photography, I found the exhibition very interesting and the work was aesthetically beautiful. I was just a little surprised about how little work was exhibited, perhaps it was because the exhibition space was fairly small.
images available at:
http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php/opening-photos/4292-cheryl-dunn-londons-new-ivory-a-black. Last Visisted 24th Apr 2012
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