Opening reception January 18th, 5-8 pm
The Artists Gallery (TAG) will celebrate photography as an art form during the Black & White Captures of the World exhibition, running from January 8-24, 2025.
The curators, Los Angeles based fine art photographer, Eric Renard and San Francisco based Gigi Chung, examined hundreds of images submitted from Argentina, Belgium, Ecuador, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, the UK and across the United States. “This very unique exhibition showcases some of today’s best photographers from across the globe” said Renard. “With no more than one image per submitting photographer this exhibition gives a sense of where fine art photography is today in all parts of the world” he said. Approximately 40 photographs were selected for the exhibition.
Black and white photography is an aesthetic that simplifies, enhances, describes truth at its essence. The Captures of the World photography exhibition shows the diversity of place, and yet by the commonality of medium and human existence, reveals similarities across diversities. We are eternally fascinated by who we are, how and where others live, how we are different and how we are the same. The empirical reality inherent in photographic imagery is extrapolated by the artist’s own viewpoint, which is uniquely expressive, and yet a collective of unique images will reveal our commonality.
Eric M Renard is one of California’s Leading contemporary Fine Art Photographers. His passion for photography was ignited at Tufts University in Boston, where he studied under Siegfried Halus. After graduating, Eric returned to San Francisco, where he worked as an architectural real estate photographer before moving to Los Angeles. He has explored the modern world through black & white photography, though he is equally well-known for his distinctive color work. His recent black and white exhibitions have focused on high contrast, urban cityscapes which portray an eerie sense of peace and tranquility.