Ada Trillo
On My Way To America
2020
Archival Pigment Print
40" x 26" x 0.75"
Edition 3 of 5

Gallery affiliation James Oliver Gallery

About the work
Over the last five years, I have documented the journeys of Central American refugees as they reach the Mexico/U.S. border. While the media often covers what is happening at the border, they frequently overlook the individual trials, struggles, and humanity of those seeking to escape violence in pursuit of a better life. Spending countless days and nights living alongside those I photograph, I hope to present an honest, unadulterated view of migrant life. It's critical to unveil individual journeys and explore why people have to leave their homes. If presented with the opportunity to exhibit at OyG, I would hope to create a space for engaging dialogue, where people can come to a better understanding of migrant life, and empathize with the stories being told. Although a great victory was achieved when Biden won the presidency, this country is still very divided and the significance of this topic remains crucial. Through the simple act of spreading awareness, I feel confident that we as a country and community can progress towards real change, where all human beings are treated as such, and white supremacy is eradicated.

About the Artist

Ada Trillo is a Philadelphia-based photographer, native to the Juarez-El Paso binational metroplex. In her work, she focuses on borders of inclusion and exclusion as they are experienced through people in sex trafficking, climate and violence-related international migration, and long-standing borders of race and class. Through the elements of documentary and fine art photography, Trillo lays bare our common humanity and dignity and brings attention to the impact borders have on exploited and marginalized people by amplifying their voices. Trillo's work is in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She is the recipient of the Female In Focus 2020 best series award, and was recently featured in The Guardian, Vogue, Smithsonian Magazine, and Mother Jones, among other publications. She has also been awarded The Me & Eve Grant with the Center of Photographic Arts in Santa Fe and received First Place in Editorial with the Tokyo International Foto Awards. Trillo has exhibited both nationally and internationally in New York City, Philadelphia, Luxembourg, England, Italy, and Germany. She holds degrees from the Istituto Marangoni in Milan and Drexel University in Philadelphia.

James B. Abbott
Green Door at The Naval Yard, Philadelphia
2021
Photograph
22" x 17"
A/P

About the art

A color image from a new on going body of work which began in 1986 photographing along Philadelphia's riverfront and bridges.

About the artist

James B Abbott, a photographer, arrived in Philadelphia in 1981 and, from his first loft seventy five feet from the Ben Franklin Bridge began photographing the bridge and its neglected riverfront neighborhood. He has recently refocused his image making to Philadelphia, the riverfront, and Ben Franklin Bridge.
He works mostly on long term urban and landscape projects, Berlin 1988 -1992 & 2012 - 2013, Cape Cod National Seashore 2000- 2012, Venice and Florence Italy 2013-2019.
Abbott graduated from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI, and over the course of thirty years has received numerous, grants, awards, residencies, commissions, and maintained a freelance photography practice. He is currently an artist in residence with his daughter India Abbott at The Cherry Street Pier in Philadelphia.

Jeffrey Holder
Mane-Abstract
2015
Inkjet Print
8.5" x 18"

About the Artist:

Jeffrey E. Holder is a Philadelphia based photographer whose work crosses into both the commercial and the fine art.
His commercial work with clients from around the globe allows him to indulge in his love of travel. He is involved in all aspects of photography from advertising, photojournalism, and documentation.

Jeffrey Holder
Upper Bucks
2015
Inkjet print
40" x 18.4"

About the Artist:

Jeffrey E. Holder is a Philadelphia based photographer whose work crosses into both the commercial and the fine art.

His commercial work with clients from around the globe allows him to indulge in his love of travel. He is involved in all aspects of photography from advertising, photojournalism and documentation.

David Graham
Marilyn Monroe, Palisades Park, NJ
1991
chromogenic color print
31" x 30"
1/25
FMV: $3,000

About the work
I photograph the American cultural landscape as well as Americans themselves. This print is from "The Land of the Free".

Bout the artist
Work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Princeton University of Art, Houston Museum of Fine Art, International Center of Photography, NYC. Eight monographs including "American Beauty" and "The Land of the Free", Aperture, "Only in America", Knopf. Professor at the University of the Arts.

Courtesy of Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY. Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ. PDNB Gallery, Dallas, TX.

Kenny White
PureHell onstage at AfroPunk Brooklyn, NY 2009
2009
Archival inkjet print on cotton rag
20" x 24"

Edition 3 of 10

About the work

I made this photo in 2009 during I believe was the third annual Afro Punk Festival in Brooklyn NY at B.A.M. while hanging with my childhood friends who are all the surviving members of the band PureHell.

About the artist

Since my teens, I have always carried a camera with me - either a Kodak Instamatic or some sort of Polaroid Land camera - just to take pictures of my environment. I now work mostly in the digital format, although I still maintain and use a number of film cameras. My subject matter varies from my friends, the people I meet on the streets, to the people who make up my immediate and extended family, to myself. As a documentary photographer, I try to capture people in the act of being themselves, or being who they imagine themselves to be. Even when shooting a traditional assignment such as a wedding, I find that this approach is very satisfying, both for my clients and for myself. I also like to shoot objects and environments that I find interesting and that have made an impact on me. When it comes to my personal work, although I am making pictures that have meaning for me, I am still always looking for reactions - whether positive or negative - from the people who view my images. If my pictures provoke a response, to me that is always a good thing.

Pete Checchia
Flapper
2019
Giclée print on canvas
30" x 20" x 1.5"

About the work

Flapper, 2019.
It is what I term a Dreamscape
Model - Brittany Papale

Dreamscapes:
are photographic explorations of identity, sexuality, art history, society, the human condition, and the subconscious.

I create these montage works intuitively from my photographic nude studies, portraiture, street and landscape photography, travel photography, appropriated iconographic cultural imagery, and most recently - online virtual shoots.

Through a collaborative process with female models I seek to deconstruct the male gaze, explore male/female power structures and dynamics, and reflect upon larger issues of identity, sexuality, persona, perception, and societal roles.

A series of life-altering nighttime dreams inspired this work.

About the artist

Photography, Art, Curating

My career as a photographer, visual artist, and curator, gives me the opportunity to explore many creative avenues and to collaborate with exceptional artists and organizations.

At Pete Checchia Photography & Arts, my gallery and photo studio, I program solo shows, group and themed exhibits, events, benefits, popup shops, and I have a special yearly guest curator show.

My photography work focuses on the classical music world with clients that include Carnegie Hall, the Curtis Institute of Music, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, New York String Orchestra Seminar, and the Marlboro Music Festival. I shoot publicity work, editorial work, events, live concerts, rehearsals, classroom shots, and many other images for schools, orchestras, and other arts and music organizations.

What ties my overall work together, from my work as an exhibiting visual artist, to work as a photographer, to curating/gallerist work, is the idea of collaboration. Sometimes that collaboration is more ethereal as with photographing an inspiring musical performance, other times it's more fundamental as with collaborating with art models and mixing our ideas. Collaboration can also take the form of direct work with other artists in different mediums like my DeMelas/Checchia collaborative duo work with painter Anthony DeMelas which now celebrates our 15th year working and showing together.

I explore art in multiple genres, disciplines, and mediums including video art, installation art, 3D constructions, mixed media, paint, performance art, and of course photography.

DeMelas/Checcchia
Graffiti Lenny (Ragazza)
2019
Photography with paint on canvas. Wooden frame.
17.5" x 22"

About the work

Multimedia.
Photography printed on canvas with paint. Wooden frame.
Model Lenny Langley.

About the artists

Anthony DeMelas and Pete Checchia infuse their unique aesthetics and techniques together forming new works as DeMelas/Checchia Visual Arts Duo. Both artists are dedicated to disintegrating what they perceive as arbitrary barriers between disciplines by expanding the boundaries of their respective mediums (painting, photography).

Jeffrey Stockbridge
Carol, Kensington and Cambria Street, 2010
2010
Framed archival pigment print
38" x 30"

About the artist

Jeffrey Stockbridge (b. 1982) graduated from Drexel University with a BS in Photography in 2005. His work has been included in recent exhibitions at The National Portrait Gallery London, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, The Houston Center for Photography and The Wapping Project Bankside. Stockbridge is a recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant, an Independence Foundation Fellowship and a CFEVA Fellowship. His work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times Magazine, Time Magazine, The Telegraph UK, Light Box, Vignette Magazine, Feature Shoot and The Rust Belt Rising Almanac. Stockbridge lives and works in Philadelphia, Pa.

Susan Abrams
December Woods #1
2003
copper toned silver print on paper handmade by the artist
16" x 20"

About the work

This photograph was taken in the woods as a snowstorm on Christmas Eve turned to rain. It has the painterly, dream-like quality typical of much of my work from this period utilizing applied emulsion on handmade. The melding of the image and the paper occurs in the darkroom. The aim is to draw the observer into a journey of seeing.