VIEW IN MY ROOM
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Photography, Color on Paper
Size: 40 W x 30 H x 1 D in
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Laugh, Smile, Take Deep Breaths My father and his wife have lived in the same house in Springfield, New Jersey for over 30 years. Due to financial constraints and the limitations of their age to care for a home, they were forced to move. The burdensome task of packing up decades of belongings and memories is daunting for anyone, let alone a couple in their eighties. Photographing them at this pivotal time in their life brought up conflicting emotions. It was often that I felt the pain of inadequacy during my childhood -- often resulting from my father’s insensitivity and anger. There was also the bad divorce from my mother. But relationships are complicated and time has a way of altering our perception of the past. During the time I was shooting the series my dad was brought to the hospital with symptoms of extreme fatigue, weakness and a horrible cough. This turned into the beginning of the end as he knew his life to be. His heart was very weak with added complications from fluid in his lungs, decreased muscle strength, high blood pressure, and liver and kidney abnormalities. Surely if he made it out of the hospital at all, it would be a compromised life for him at best. It was as if we were both searching for meaning in the difficult turn his life had taken. Indeed, the process of photographing him through these changes has brought us closer, as we have had the shared experience of seeing mortality come close while contemplating the frailty of life and the memories we cling to to get through it.
Photography:Color on Paper
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Size:40 W x 30 H x 1 D in
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After attending college and art school, Ilisa Katz Rissman began a decade-long career as a commercial photographer, in addition to pursuing personal projects. Her work quickly began appearing in a variety of national publications including, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Interview, Saveur, Town and Country and Metropolis. Ilisa published two books, one titled Chairmania in which she photographed the miniature chair collection belonging to the iconic designer George Beylarian, and she was the featured artist In Photo District News: Ilisa Katz’s Simple Vision. For the past several years Ilisa has dedicated herself to working on concurrent long term fine art projects and commissioned portraits -- choosing large format analog cameras to produce detailed, evocative images. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally and is the recipient of a number of awards from jurors including James Rondeau (The Art Institute of Chicago), Stephen Perloff (The Photo Review), Joseph Carroll (Carroll and Sons), Julia Dolan (The Photographic Center Northwest) and Jennifer Blessing (The Guggenheim Museum Of Art). Ilisa recently won the Julia Margaret Cameron Award for People and Culture, and three of her photographs were exhibited at the 2016 Berlin Foto Biennale. Her work has been posted and/or reviewed in The New Yorker, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Landscape Stories, Fraction and Slate and she is a BRIC Arts Media Fellow. Ilisa lives in Brooklyn with her three children.
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