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Diane Fenster
Name:
Diane Fenster
Country where you live:
- United States
City where you live:
- Pacifica
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Statement :
From the series
A Long History Of Dark Sleep:
Anxiety and insomnia self-portraits photographed during the pandemic of COVID-19
In this time of COVID-19, I sleep alone but fear is my lover. We embrace fretfully and stare at the ceiling. At this late hour, there is no one to call, all the lines are dead and the buses have stopped running. The camera comes to bed with me and a flashlight is my light-source. This is my chance to record anxiety, to photograph the noir that surrounds me and come face to face with my potential demise. Or perhaps I’ll find some truth and maybe even beauty in the dead of night.
I have never liked being photographed. A series based on self-portraits could not have happened until this moment in time. Coming face to face with potential death carried on the breeze by an invisible agent has the power to propel me to self-examination in spite of distress. My aim is fretful, the focus unsteady. It’s all about chance, isn’t it, what the lens captures, who gets the virus.
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Bio:
My art first received notice during the era of early experimentations with digital imaging and has been called an important voice in the development of a true digital aesthetic. I view myself as an alchemist, using digital, alternative process, and traditional photographic tools to delve into fundamental human issues. My work is literary and emotional, full of symbolism and multiple layers of meaning and my images have appeared in numerous publications on photography digital art. I've been a guest lecturer at many seminars and conferences, internationally exhibited and a part of museum, corporate and private collections. My work appears in the APERTURE monograph METAMORPHOSES: PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE ELECTRONIC AGE, WOMEN, ART AND TECHNOLOGY published by MIT press, and ART IN THE DIGITAL AGE edited by Bruce Wands, School of Visual Art, NYC.
Recent honors include a Silver Award, Tokyo International Foto Awards 2020, Inclusion in DIFFUSION X, fine art photography publication 2021, Gold and Silver Awards, Budapest International Foto Awards (BIFA) 2020, Gold Award, Bay Area Month of Photography 2020, Honorable Mention in the Fine Art Portrait category Moscow Photo Awards (MIFA) 2020, Silver Award Bay Area Month of Photography 2019, Silver Award, Tokyo International Foto Awards for HY•ST•ER•IA: Body as Battleground. Honorable Mentions in 7th, 8th, 11th, 12th and 15th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards. 2018 Pollux Awards, Finalist in the Fine Art and Digital Manipulation categories for series HY•ST•ER•IA: Body as Battleground. My work was exhibited in the 4th Biennale of Fine Art and Documentary Photography in Berlin, and received Honorable Mentions in the 9th Pollux Awards, and the 2018 Moscow Photo Awards.
