BASIC LIGHT

OTHER PORTRAITS

2008-06-18T11:33:00.001-07:00

SHADES OF A FACE

2008-06-18T11:15:00.001-07:00

Work presented at Parsons, New School for Design in the Summer Intensive Course 2008 Final Exhibition

Rosy Fasja (Mexican, 1986- )
Shades of a Face, New York, 2008
Mixed Media.

Artist Statement:
I was born in Mexico, but all my life I’ve been interested in different cultures and people. I enjoy traveling around the world and meeting new people every day.
Being in NY for the summer is a small, yet inspirational taste of vastly different cultures and lifestyles. The photographs that I’m presenting give the viewer a simple, enchanting look of every person’s intimate life. If we look closely in the eyes of each face we can find a lifetime full of experiences and a body that has been witness to the soul’s joy and pain. People can lie, smiles can be a guard to protect inner lives, but an expression bares it all.

Living in a big city like NY gave me the opportunity to see that people can become lonely to an extent, and they often forget that there are others around them. Like this shade represents, as different and distance as people may be there is an undeniable link that brings them all together.

METRO

2008-06-18T11:06:00.000-07:00

Mi vida esta la tome pensando en ti....Ahora si soy una buena fotografa??? ....jajaja
Espero que te guste

NATURE & TEXTURES

2008-06-18T08:42:00.000-07:00

BATTERY PARK

2008-06-18T08:39:00.000-07:00

HUDSON RIVER & CENTRAL PARK LANDSCAPE

2008-06-18T06:22:00.001-07:00

BROOKLYN BRIDGE

2008-06-17T06:31:00.001-07:00

Last Friday we went on a field trip to the Brooklyn bridge...I was really impressed about the landscapes of NYC that you can see from there, even though I'm not into landscape photography i decided to take some. In my work from this shooting you can also perceive a feeling of greatness from the man's work over the nature.

MOMA NY

2008-06-10T11:06:00.001-07:00

Yesterday we wen on a field trip to the Modern Art museum in Ny (at first we saw a photography exhibition and then i decided to look around the rest of the museum, in the third floor there was an exhibition named, Take your time, and the artist is: Olafur Eliasson it is all base on light, so i decided to play a little with my camera and some lightning effects.
visit. http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/exhibitions.php?id=3991

GRAND CENTRAL

2008-06-10T08:42:00.000-07:00

Grand Central is a place where the most important value is velocity, everything is about speed and time; fast food, fast business, train hours, delays and schedules. But in the middle of this fast forward life you can find a few tourist or people who don't really care about this velocity, people taking pictures, looking and enjoying the amazing building, family, friends and lovers encounters.
The contrast between these people is what i tried to represent in my photographs. It was a challenge because It was a closed place and i hate using flash, so i made some experiments with my tripod....i even laid on the floor of grand central!!!

REVEREND BILLY

2008-06-10T08:28:00.000-07:00

Documenting Rev. Billy and the Church of No Shopping performance in Union Square was a nice experience, looking how people were really interested and that he is fighting for the rights of the people in New York, made me think about how we act and what is our attitude against things that we don't agree in our countries or communities.

For For more information about rev billy, visit Rev. Billy and the church of no Shopping website: http://www.revbilly.com/

WALL STREET

2008-06-09T06:55:00.000-07:00

What i saw in this site reminded me about the Richard Ross exhibition in the aperture gallery: Architecture of Authority - http://www.aperture.org/store/gallery.aspx

A place where the power and authority expresses not only in the people's attitude but in the way the buildings are constructed and organized... But even in this place you can find hints of humanized life like the sugar cotton.

GROUND ZERO

2008-06-09T06:39:00.000-07:00

In this series of images i really wanted to represent the feeling and mood of the people in this area. A few years after the big tragedy, you can still perceive the sadness and respect for those who died in there.
But at the same time the consumerism culture that exist in America has converted this site in a touristic and commerce center. they have taken advantage of the vulnerability of the people because of what happened and they sell of kinds of things, from a flag, and a little statue to a whole book telling the story about th tragedy, it's unimaginable what is happening in there.
To represent my feeling while visiting the site i decided to desaturate the images but at the same time to emphasis's in the contrast.

WEST VILLAGE

2008-06-06T06:27:00.000-07:00

In west village I decided to focus my photographs in small details that talk by themselves abut the place and the people. In most of the images i captured you can't recognize the whole thing because they are details at big scale. West village is the bohemian side of the City so also that i tried to represent. I enjoyed this shooting day, because i had time to walk a lot in streets that I've never been before and i end up walking home and I took photographs all the way long.

HARLEM

2008-06-02T12:02:00.000-07:00

The trip to harlem was and adventure itsef. I had to go by myself, which complicated things.

In a single 10 minutes Metro ride is like beeing in a parallel world were all the rush of the city suddenly converts into a slow m otion life. People chating w ith friends, families enjoying their children and kids running in playground.

Some people were a little hostile when askin g them if I could take pictures. Because I decided that the best way to represent Harlem is taking potographs of the people in there and their face expressions.

Most of the photos taken at this field trip were converted to black and w hite to make enfasis on the contrast between Harlem and most of the rest of the city.

The images taken represent my personal view of the n eighborhood.

In the photographs there are some of them wer e people and spe cially faces appeared, and there is a second group of images of objets were you can notice the presence of people but there are not fiscally in the frame.

CHINATOWN

2008-06-01T23:51:00.000-07:00

Chinatown, a place where real life and traditions meet. A whole different culture inside the big apple. From the fish and seafood smell in the street and the colorful Chinese toys to the peculiar expressions in people faces. All this is what I wanted to capture in this long shooting day.

WILLIAMSBURG

2008-06-01T23:36:00.000-07:00

My first "Real" shooting in NY....with my brand new nikon camera!