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Fall 2009
Pauli Ochi
Iviva Olenick
Lionel Pratt
Jeff Zorabedian
My brief visit to Berlin this year yielded vivid images of the tattooed skin and the painted vistas of the city. I was struck by the physical and cosmetic similarities between Berlin and New York, and these photographs are my attempt to view this medieval-yet-modern city through the lens of a New Yorker. The urgent graffiti and the monumental buildings, which seemed to be heaped into this reinvented city, amazed me. Moreover, I fell instantly in love with this turbulent, frenetic, and haunting place.
I often find myself trying to explain a situation by starting with the imperative, “Look.” My work reflects that same exhortation to see what is apparent and yet missed or overlooked. I often photograph the same subject over and over again, peeling away layers and paring down the compositions to enable the viewer to see what I see. In a way, my work is a photographic show and tell, like a child proudly trotting a piece of junk from the street in to his parents. Just look.
