MARIO ALGAZE – FOCUS

Posted on 2020-12-14

Mario Algaze’s family moved to Miami, Florida in 1960, at the age of thirteen. By his early twenties he knew his passion for photography would be his lifelong career. His approach as a photojournalist in his early years resulted in some well-known images of Latin American countries, he felt affinity with Argentina, Colombia, Perú, Guatemala, Cuba and more.

His photographs are sublime, illustrating scenes of street life, café’s and bars, architecture and landscape. Each image is delicately composed to reveal nuances of the culture and beauty of the country and its people.

Algaze also became known for his photographs of important musicians. He naturally captures the musician in performance, but there is a certain quality of light and framing that separates these live action images from the typical concert photograph.

A major observation of his work is in his printing, which cannot be appreciated online. Mario prints his photographs, to this day, himself. His prints are stunning examples of what is best about the capacity of a traditional darkroom print. Local visitors can see the beauty of his printing via the additional exhibition in the gallery.

Opposite – Two phones, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1984

Online exhibition runs through to December 31st, 2020

PDNB
154 Glass St. #104
Dallas
TX 75207

www.pdnbgallery.com

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MARY MATTINGLY – PIPELINES AND PERMAFROST

Posted on 2020-12-14

Mary Mattingly exhibits a series of photographs that are driven by an urgency to document the speed of climate change and habitat fragmentation through images that appear as fluid timelines. These photographs interpret changes in land over geologic time (based on fossil records) in order to describe a place through its deep history. They also speculate on near futures as witness to an exponential speeding-up of geologic time due to human-induced climate change.

Pipelines and Permafrost was also driven by hope: hope that arises when people work together to combat destruction of a land base. It honors water, land, and forest protectors around the world who have fought for the rights of nature against increased industrialization. Many are Indigenous Peoples (or are in alliance) fighting to protect their nations and homelands against exploitation, many have struggled against extractive mining operations, logging corporations, and industrial agriculture* to protect primary forests, conserve animal habitats, plant species, and water. These photographs are particularly potent today because of the current administration’s relaxation of many environmental protections put in place by previous administrations, including the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act.

“I needed photography to do something that was beyond documenting, and specifically documenting widespread traumas through visible scars left on land. So I started to construct these collages that fluidly evoke places from deep time through to a speculative future. To me, they honor the work of everyone involved in fighting for habitats, and for humanity by proxy.” – Mary Mattingly

Opposite – Rematriation, 2020

Exhibition runs through to December 31st, 2020

Robert Mann Gallery
525 West 26th Street, Floor 2
New York
NY 10001

www.robertmann.com

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