Recent Photography Exhibitions in New York (Part 3) 📸

His works possess such a tension; only by stepping further back can one perceive the overall traces humans have left in nature. 🌸🍃 But then one immediately becomes aware of the danger of landscape-ization, and so begins to move closer, only to find that these abstract patterns are not some mysterious divine craftsmanship (the tiny figures on page 6 are illegal workers, many of whom died during mining). Humanity is saturated within inhumanity, the specific contained within the abstract, with destruction on one side and rebirth on the other. Each photograph brings a series of shocks and pains to this dual scar of culture and landscape. 🌸🍃 Another exhibition is by Iranian-American photographer Sheida Soleimani, who uses collage photography to tell the story of her parents' journey from Iran to the United States as communist activists and their life in America. These works of non-linear narrative memory are filled with metaphors, reassigning political and cultural significance to familiar objects. 🌸🍃Hand-drawn blue lines entwine these fragmented memories, attempting to reconstruct the home that once was. These two journeys, one highly objective and the other highly subjective, both undoubtedly open up pathways to the neglected human memories for us. #NewYorkLife #NewYorkExhibitions 🌃🌟