Photography as Pilgrimage with Dora Somosi
Photography as Pilgrimage with Dora Somosi
Join us via Zoom Wednesday, June 7th, at 7 pm EDT
For Dora Somosi, photography and pilgrimage are interwoven into one creative gesture. Her impressionistic imagery surfs an emotional riptide beneath which she explores big existential questions. In her celebrated project By Her Side, Dora visits the homes/studios of inflential historical female artists and thinkers—people who have touched her life and have helped shape her work. Here, she creates a photographic blueprint of a tree that was witness—through its proximity—to the chosen woman’s life and legacy. For Dora, making images at these personally sacred sites is a performative act that calls upon instinctive photographing in order to both connect and memorialize.
Dora will also be sharing work from her emerging project Fantastic Regular. Here, Dora’s photographic practice takes the shape of a fantastical narrative where multiple views of one location merge into a single frame. Dora will be giving us a generous glimpse into her unique and varied photographic processes and the cyclical way her projects layer and unfold over time. Together we will ponder how our own photography practice has shaped and transformed who we are and who we are becoming.
Dora Somosi is a Hungarian-American photographer living and working in Brooklyn and Upstate, NY. Her work has been shown with Klompching Gallery, The Sarah Shepard Gallery, Carrie Haddad Gallery, The International Center of Photography (ICP), Kraushaar1885 Gallery, NeueHouse, BRiC Arts, BAM Art, 3Wallsnyc, Blank Wall Gallery, Praise Shadows, The Landing, Main Street Gallery, Photoplace Gallery, Showfields, and ICFF. Her photographs have been printed with The Atlantic, Taschen, Cultured Magazine, The New York Times, T Magazine and InteriorDesign. Her works reside with notable New York and Los Angeles collectors and interior designers, including Trustees of the Brooklyn Museum, BRiC Arts, and the Brooklyn International Studio and Curatorial Program.
Somosi has received awards from the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME), Society of Publication Designers (SPD), American Photography, Photo District News and Art Director's Club for her work as Director of Photography at Condé Nast and Hearst Publications (2004-2014), as well as an Emmy nomination for short form video content. She has collaborated with some of the leading editorial photographers and lectured at the International School of Photography, the School of Visual Arts and MassArt. She has served as the Vice President of The Society of Publications Designers, Visuals Director for Tatter, and Secretary of the Board of Directors for the W. Eugene Smith Fund for the advancement of humanistic photography. She consults buyers on emerging artists, and has curated benefit shows to raise money for various political and non profit causes.
Dora Somosi from Fantastic Regular
