The Danziger gallery, based in New York, was at the Unseen photo fair. They have exhibited the Sartorialist, photographer and blogger, Tereza Vlckova, a Czech artist, and Yuji Obata, Japanese photographer. Why these choices ? Let’s meet with Hope Brimelow from the Danziger gallery.

Age13 : How did you choose the people you are exhibiting here ?
Hope Brimelow : We tried to look for photographers who hadn’t really been seen on the international platform, especially in an art fair situation.
We chose the Sartorialist. He is known as the first photographer of the digital age. He has a blog which he started in 2005. That is where he posts his photographs. He went around to different cities, took photographs of people that he would see in the street and then upload them on his blog. His photographs are understood digitally. He is not a photographer for which there is usual prints. It’s all done on the internet. So we contacted him in 2005 and asked if he wanted to do a fine art edition of his work. We decided to bring his work to this show because it’s a new way of looking at photography.

© The Sartorialist / Danziger Gallery

Then we brought Tereza Vlckova. She is a Czech photographer. We chose two series of her work : ”Two” and ”A perfect day, Elise…”. “Two” is a series about twins. Some of the girls on the pictures are twins and some of them are just the same girl reproduced twice. It questions the idea and perception of the self. There is also something quite eery about it. It talks about the darker self. The other series, “A perfect day, Elise…” shows women jumping in the air. Tereza is a young photographer, she is only 27. Her pictures have this nice encapsulated feel. They really speak to people here.

© Tereza Vlckova, Two, Danziger Gallery

© Tereza Vlckova, A perfect day, Elise…, Danziger Gallery

And finally, we have Yuji Obata. We showed this Japanese photographer last year in our gallery. He photographs snowflakes while they are falling. It is not digitally manipulated or manipulated in any other sort. He is the first photographer to do this and it took him 5 years. Now, he won’t disclose the way he does it, but he will pass it to somebody when he gets old. What is really beautiful about this work is that it’s an image that you have seen. You learn as a child that snowflakes are all unique and individual. But to have an actual photograph of it is something that is completely new and unseen.

© Yuji Obata, Danziger Gallery

Age13 : When I look at the Sartorialist’s pictures, I wonder how do you go from pictures who are understood digitally to a piece of art ?
H-B : That is actually something that I asked my director as well because for a piece of art it has to be original and it has to be different. It can’t just be shots that you take in the middle of the street. It has to be some kind of composition and that is why we have selected these images especially. We have about 26 here and in the show there are 45. And in those ones we think they show Scott Schuman’s (the Sartorialist) unique vision and his ability to capture the “elegant moment”. Some of his photographs are really able to show that moment where personal style and the environment all come together and create this beautiful picture.

© The Sartorialist, Danziger Gallery

© The Sartorialist, Danziger Gallery