Contemporary American photographer.
Artist statement:
My aim in photography is to create a still, intense or whimsical depiction of a presented scene. The subject and the setting or background are of equal importance in my portrait work whether the subject is placed in a real or imaginary environment. I am inspired by cinema as well as photography and attempt to carry over the feeling of a hyper-reality into my portraiture by having a staged, controlled element to them even when going for a “captured moment” photograph.
The feelings that a certain scene stir inside of me are the catalyst to make me decide to create the picture. I feel that the resulting image bears a strong imprint of my emotional response.
(March 2007)Preparing biographies
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Benjamin C. Tankersley
Education
1999 Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC with a BFA in photography
Exhibitions
2007 Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover, DE
2006-2007 Wilson Building City Hall Art Collection, Washington, DC
2006 Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC
2005 South Street Art gallery, Easton, MD
2005 Association of International Photographic Art Dealers (AIPAD), New York, NY
2004 Ellipse Art Center, Arlington, Va
2004 The Kushnir Taylor Gallery, Ellicot City, MD
2000 Signal 66, Washington, DC
His photographs have been published in The Washington Post, The Washington Post Magazine, Washingtonian, as well as private publications and for independent national and international record labels. His photographs are in numerous private and public collections.
He is currently shooting a print and DV documentary on a Quaker community in rural Virginia as well as continuing commercial and fine art landscape photography.
(March 2007)
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