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Wendy Paton. Visages de Nuit

By Gazeta Russa
Wendy Paton is professionally represented by the Sous Les Etoiles Gallery of New York City, In Focus Galerie of Koln, Germany and soon it will be exhibited in Lumiere Brothers Photogallery of Moscow, Russia. The exhibition is to start on the 4 September 2012 and it will be opened till 7 October 2012.
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Wendy Paton

Wendy Paton is professionally represented by the Sous Les Etoiles Gallery of New York City, In Focus Galerie of Koln, Germany and soon it will be exhibited in Lumiere Brothers Photogallery of Moscow, Russia. The exhibition is to start on the 4 September 2012 and it will be opened till 7 October 2012.
The Visages de Nuit exhibition of award winning fine arts photographer Wendy Paton is a personal and intimate glimpse into our ineffable, human presence, presented in mesmerizing, black-and-white, graphic compositions.

Wendy Paton

The Visages de Nuit exhibition of award winning fine arts photographer Wendy Paton is a personal and intimate glimpse into our ineffable, human presence, presented in mesmerizing, black-and-white, graphic compositions.
Wendy Paton was in the throes of a successful, ground-breaking career, training and riding race horses in New York, when she became interested in photography in 1981.

Wendy Paton

Wendy Paton was in the throes of a successful, ground-breaking career, training and riding race horses in New York, when she became interested in photography in 1981.
Wendy went on to study photography at the International Center of Photography in New York City, learned the intricacies of night-time photography from Michael Kenna, and darkroom printing techniques from her mentor and collaborator, master printer Chuck Kelton.

Wendy Paton

Wendy went on to study photography at the International Center of Photography in New York City, learned the intricacies of night-time photography from Michael Kenna, and darkroom printing techniques from her mentor and collaborator, master printer Chuck Kelton.
Her nocturnal portraits are intimate and familiar, compelling and mysterious. Paton, who works exclusively with film cameras, shot the body of work in her Visages de Nuit exhibition over a six-year span that began in 2006.

Wendy Paton

Her nocturnal portraits are intimate and familiar, compelling and mysterious. Paton, who works exclusively with film cameras, shot the body of work in her Visages de Nuit exhibition over a six-year span that began in 2006.
Intrigued by the mysterious and ever-changing nature of human personalities and their individual choices of expression, she chooses to photograph at night, when she believes people feel the freedom to be as they wish, to take on a personality that they imagine, or to simply be themselves, stripping away any facades.

Wendy Paton

Intrigued by the mysterious and ever-changing nature of human personalities and their individual choices of expression, she chooses to photograph at night, when she believes people feel the freedom to be as they wish, to take on a personality that they imagine, or to simply be themselves, stripping away any facades.
As with Cartier-Bresson, her images are taken in that “decisive moment.” In this moment, at that specific instant in time, only a photographer instinctually knows “this is the time, take the photograph.”

Wendy Paton

As with Cartier-Bresson, her images are taken in that “decisive moment.” In this moment, at that specific instant in time, only a photographer instinctually knows “this is the time, take the photograph.”
Visages de Nuit, Paton's series of candid, nocturnal, black-and-white images, was first exhibited in 2009 at the Clues to Identity exhibition.

Wendy Paton

Visages de Nuit, Paton's series of candid, nocturnal, black-and-white images, was first exhibited in 2009 at the Clues to Identity exhibition.
Paton’s work has been internationally exhibited in various art galleries and museum venues, and her images are included in private and public collections around the US and Europe.

Wendy Paton

Paton’s work has been internationally exhibited in various art galleries and museum venues, and her images are included in private and public collections around the US and Europe.
In 2012, the publication of her fist monograph, Visages de Nuit, (Kehrer Verlag), will launch with the debut of her Visages de Nuit exhibition at The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography in Moscow.

Wendy Paton

In 2012, the publication of her fist monograph, Visages de Nuit, (Kehrer Verlag), will launch with the debut of her Visages de Nuit exhibition at The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography in Moscow.
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August 30, 2012
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