Organ Vida Photography Festival is proud to present a world renowned photographer Dana Lixenberg, the winner of the 2017 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.
Join Dana Lixenberg in Gallery Forum at conversation about her awarded work Imperial Courts, and hear how she managed to capture everyday life in LA housing project. Beside this project, Dana will also talk about her work in general.
Utilizing a large, analogue view camera, Lixenberg pursues long-term personal projects with a primary focus on individuals and communities on the margins of society, as well as her magazine portraits of Puff Daddy, Prince, Tupac Shakur, Eminen and many others. First ones includes her series Jeffersonville, Indiana, a collection of landscapes and portraits of the small town’s homeless population, and The Last Days of Shishmaref, which documents an Inupiat community on an eroding island off the coast of Alaska.
Her newest publication, Imperial Courts, 1993-2015 (2015), is a project that explores a public housing project in Watts, Los Angeles. It’s a complex and evocative record of the passage of time in an underserved community. The series first started in 1993. continuing until the spring of 2015, and gradually became an extensive portrait of this community over twenty-two years. Imperial Courts was first published as a book, and is also a web documentary co-created with Eefje Blankevoort that is presented in Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb during the Organ Vida Festival 2017.
Dana Lixenberg (1964, Amsterdam) studied Photography at the London College of Printing in London (1984-1986) and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam (1987-1989). She gained international recognition through her work for publications such as Vibe, The New Yorker, Newsweek and Rolling Stone. Her projects include Jeffersonville, Indiana (2005) a collection of landscapes and portraits of the small town’s homeless population and The Last Days of Shishmaref (2008), which documents an Inupiaq community on an eroding island off the coast of Alaska. Her work has been widely exhibited and can be found in prominent collections, such as Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and FNAC, France. Her books include Imperial Courts, 1993-2015 (2015), Set Amsterdam (2011), The Last Days of Shishmaref (2008), Jeffersonville, Indiana (2005), and united states (2001). She lives in New York and Amsterdam.
Don’t miss the artist talk and book signing of this exceptional artist.