exhibition/exposición 7x10

exhibition/exposición

7x10 is an exhibition uniting seven photographers and presenting ten images each from their own series work. Living and creating in the Americas, they give us a rich and unique perspective of life and land in a place many of us share.

7x10 es una exhibicíon donde siete fotógrafos se unen y presentan diez imaginas cada uno de sus mejores obras. Viviendo y creando en las Americas, ellos nos dan una rica y unica perspectiva de vida y tierra en un lugar que muchos de nosotros compartimos.

Elemental Forces by James Loftus

The classic California landscape is one of the cornerstones of North American photography. As this once pristene land becomes diminished by over building and vandelism, it is more important than ever to take inventory of this very diverse part of the Americas. Elemental Forces reveals the beauty that everyday is becoming more endangered.

Sin Fronteras by David McGhee

Sin Fronteras or “Without Borders” is a series of photographic works captured along the Rio Grande. As well as a geographical wonder, this river also serves as a political borderline between Texas and Mexico. These works are an attempt to reveal the contrast between culture and environment along this divide.

Prisoners of Our Own Device by David Stock

Are those shining condos on the hill a science-fiction utopia or an arrogant disaster? Is that pretty wilderness calendar an ecological statement, or romantic escapism?

Ñundeui by Mario Mutschlechner

In these photographs I limit myself to few colors: the green of the vegetation, color of fertility, abundance and tranquillity, the blue of the naguas, color of the sky, the spiritual world and dreams and the moreno of the skin, color of the earth, warm and sensual, and in the words of Gauguin in Tahiti “ the gold of their bodies. “ Complementary to this world in peace appears the red of the necklaces and fajas, the color of warning, passion and danger.

Primary Rythms by Hugo Aveta

Nature and city related acquairing symbolic dimensions in a main contextual meaning, surpassing each piece is own limits which play their own character in the historical scenery a new universe of the message, the urban transcending its own real scenery and the time escaping off history.

Zapatistas by Emilano Thibaut

In Chiapas, the masked ones unmasked for a time, the centers of power which was in the hands of destroyers of forests and exploiters of people. The Zapatista rebellion exposed this power which not only reigned in Mexico, but continues in several places in the Americas today. The Zapatistas were a much needed cry in the darkness and now at this time and place, it may be best to look back to their movment... as we move forward.

7x10 Exhibition Catalog

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