RICHARD – FLORIDA 1983 SERIES
Photographs printed on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Baryta Satin Paper. Signed by the artist.
Canadian Currency
Shipping not included / from Toronto, Canada

8×10 inches $250
11×14 inches $500
16×20 inches $1000
20×24 inches $1750

Artist Statement:

Richard – Florida 1983
I met Richard in winter 1983 when my family and I were vacationing in Clearwater Beach, Florida. I noticed him at our hotel’s pool because he was highly energetic and clearly wanted attention. He was allowed to use the pools of various hotels along the beach because he was friendly and lived a few blocks away. He noticed I was taking photographs of my family at the pool and offered himself as my subject. Our photo related friendship began. Richard was only 15 years old and I was 26. Whenever I had free time, we hung out, talked about our different lives and took photos. He asked to borrow my professional camera for a school project where he had to present something that interested him. I was very skeptical about lending it to him, but he took me to his house to show where he lived in case he failed to return my camera the following day as promised. I was convinced. My camera was returned the following day with great excitement as his presentation was impressive.

As our vacation was ending, we exchanged addresses and phone numbers, so I could mail him prints of our best images. Back in Toronto I received a phone call from his mother. She told me that Richard had never taken to liking an older male figure as he had to me. She further explained that she was at a loss at how to mother a very rebellious son who had disrupted the family for years. She asked me if I would fly him to Toronto and adopt him. I was stunned and had to turn her down. I never heard from Richard or saw him again.

BIO:

I am a Fine Art Photographer residing in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

A former Master Analog Darkroom Printer with 35+ years experience in Toronto, Vancouver, San Francisco and New York City. 

I freely capture all that I am intuitively drawn to as a street-based Photographer. I do not judge my subjects or subject matter. My point-and-shoot camera is with me at all times. I do not plan any of my street photo opportunities. 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

“Manhattan 1982”, September 2019, Supernova Coffee, Toronto, ON

“Accidental Urban Portals”, July 2019, The Window Gallery, Toronto, ON

“Street Shots: NYC 2013-14 and TO 2015-17”, October 2017, Galleria 814, Toronto, ON

“Manhattan 1982”, June 2015, Hair In the City, Toronto, ON

“Manhattan 1982”, May 2015, R Squared Cafe, Toronto, ON

“Manhattan 1982”, March 2015, Akasha Art Projects, Toronto, ON

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

“Manhattan 1982”, April 2019, AGO Concourse Gallery, Toronto, ON

“Street Abstractions and Portals”, June 2017, Nuit Rose-Daniels Spectrum, Toronto, ON

“Manhattan 1982”, November 2016, Open Show Slide Presentation, Toronto, ON 

“Dundas St West”, July 2016, Open Show Slide Presentation, Toronto, ON

“Randy The Stripper”, June 2016, Nuit Rose-Akasha Art Projects, Toronto, ON

“10X10 Photography Project”, June 2016, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON

“On and Off NYC Streets 2014”, October 2014, Gowanus Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY

“Urban Modulations: In the Drawing Room”, September 2014, Artbridge Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY

“Urban Modulations”- 8 public murals Bond St, Brooklyn, August 2014, Artbridge, New York, NY

“Food For Thought”, August 2014, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

“NYC Street Photography 2013”, October 2013, Gowanus Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY

“New York City, c. 1985”, May 2013, ClampArt Gallery, New York, NY

“Phoneography”, November 2012, Akasha Art Projects, Toronto, ON

LIVE AUCTIONS:

SNAP for ACT, March 2019, Arcadian Court, Toronto, ON

SNAP for ACT, March 2017, Bram + Bluma Appel Salon, Toronto, ON

SNAP for ACT, March 2016, Bram + Bluma Appel Salon, Toronto, ON

GRANTS:

Peter S Reed Foundation- Photography 2015

Toronto Arts Council- Newcomer and Refugee Mentorship Program 2017

PUBLISHED:

Self-published coffee table book titled MANHATTAN 1982

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Written by Julie Grahame, New York. 2014

Gun Roze: New York City, Then and Now

© Gun Roze

Photographer Gun Roze is one of my most prolific friends online, sharing photographs he makes mostly in and around New York City and Brooklyn. Interested in natural composition and juxtaposition, Gun shoots somewhat from the hip, snatching little vignettes. In the early 80s he visited New York from his home in Toronto and shot a lot on the streets of Manhattan, neglecting this trove of photographs until recently. In the meantime he became a master photographic printer, working both here in the US and back in Canada. Gun rediscovered these files, and serendipity led to a few of his images being included in “NYC c. 1985” at ClampArt in New York’s Chelsea in 2013. So here are a few shots from the 80s, and some from the last couple of years. I think you’ll work out which is which.