DINING ALONE In the Company of Solitude

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Photographer

Nancy Scherl
Jury Top 5 Selection

Michael Itkoff
Company/Studios

Nancy A Scherl Photography
Date of Photograph

2020-2021 (Book)
Technical Info

1/30th, F 5.6-22, Analog Shot with Hasselblad and Nikon Fm2; Digital Shot with Nikon D3 and D810 (Full Sensor Mode)
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Website

http://www.nancyascherlfineart.com

'DINING ALONE In the Company of Solitude,' (series and book), highlights the experience of being alone in public. I used peopled restaurant interiors as a metaphor to portray the complexities and universality of solitude. The work spans over three decades, culminating during the Covid-19 Pandemic, reminding us all of the fragility of life while bringing our isolation into sharp focus. World-wide, we all seemed to also be connected by our need for connection. Perhaps these timeless and timely photographs will serve as a reminder that we came to terms with our aloneness.

Biography

Nancy Scherl is a fine art photographer based in New York City. She distinguishes between her staged portraiture series and her visual stories–the former being social commentary; the latter being social documentary. Stylistically, Nancy emulates cinema verite’ and incorporates Cartier Bresson’s ‘decisive moment.’
Awards

Nancy completed an MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media at New York City’s School of Visual Arts, following her undergraduate studies in documentary and fine art photography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a member of the American Society of Media Photographers, where she served as a board member from 2016 to 2019, and serves on the board of the Katonah Museum Artists’ Association (KMAA) as President Emerita and Treasurer, in Katonah, New York. She is the Founder, and Producer of ‘Shop-Talk which is a round table discussion series about art produced for the KMAA. Nancy is a two time Photolucida Critical Mass Finalist and among other honors, her work earned the Arthur Griffin Legacy Award (2023), 2022 Bronze Fine Art Book Award from PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris, an overall Julia Margaret Cameron Award (JMCA) in the Professional-Series Category which earned her a solo show at FotoNostrum in Barcelona (2022), a place in the 2021 Worldwide Photography Gala Awards’ 16th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards (JMCA) and Photolucida’s 2018 Critical Mass Top 200. She received two first-place awards in the 2016 Moscow International Foto Awards and a bronze award in the 2016 Tokyo International Foto Awards. Her work has appeared in numerous shows, including the A Smith Gallery online exhibition 'She'(2022), Critics Choice Award; South X Southeast Gallery (2022), A Smith Gallery Portraits exhibition in 2020; South x Southeast 2020’s Photogallery; the Katonah Museum of Art’s Tri-State Juried Exhibition Signals in Katonah, New York, in 2018; and the Katonah Museum Artists’ Association juried show Time and Place at the Hammond Museum in North Salem, New York, in 2015. For additional details visit www.nancyascherlfineart.com.