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Featured New Artist: Tiana Markova-Gold
Focused on long-term documentary projects, Tiana completed the photojournalism program at the International Center of Photography in 2007. Before photojournalism school Tiana trained as a dancer at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, then somewhere in between began to travel, dance less and photograph more leading to her choice to go to ICP. “I take photographs because it gives me a sense of purpose and empowerment...photography, for me, is about exploring and asking questions, communicating and bringing to light things which are hidden, ignored or misunderstood,” she explains.
Her personal work is done with film, mainly color, natural light, nothing set-up or posed. “Photography is a way for me to create something beautiful, to recognize the beauty which exists in the world, in both obvious and unexpected places” Some images shown here are from a long term project about the lives of sex workers in New York City. ”....for just over a year I have been photographing several women who are street-based sex workers in the hunts point area of the South Bronx and another woman who works as a high-end prostitute out of her co-op apartment in the west village in downtown Manhattan.” Part of that project includes the recording of digital audio “…consisting of interviews with the women I photograph, conversations and ambient sounds in the streets and rooms where they live and work.”
The other images come from travels in Haiti. Tiana says “...they are all just moments I saw that I found compelling or beautiful and that I thought showed something about the people and the environment there. Some were taken during kanaval (carnival) in the southern city of Jakmel (where I have spent quite a bit of time over the past few years)...others were just moments, like the young boy flexing for the camera in front of a canal filled with filthy water and sewage in cite soley.”
Web: www.tianamarkova.com
Tiana Markova-Gold is this week’s Featured New Artist from our friends at Aurora Photos. Aurora’s staff regularly seeks out new, up and coming photographers to highlight on abouttheimage.com. We hope our readers will enjoy learning about these young pro-photographers and seeing examples of their outstanding work. Photographers who would like to be considered for publication as a Featured New Artist can submit their resume and portfolio by email to fna [at] abouttheimage.com.
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