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Ann Bodan
USA / photographer


I have always loved art in all forms and as a child I aspired to someday become a painter. Unfortunately, I was not gifted with the ability to draw so I had to turn my attentions elsewhere. My love affair with photography began when I was 14.

I was deeply fascinated with the way one could capture the world, as it exists in one particular moment on film. After graduating high school, I decided to pursue my love of photography in college, earning a Diploma in Commercial Photography from Gwinnett Technical College in Atlanta, Georgia. I spent two years working as an assistant in a commercial studio and as a staff photographer in a portrait studio, but I just wasn’t satisfied with my career. I decided to refocus my efforts on the work that I have always wanted to do…fine art still life.

The works for Hans Neleman and Salvador Dali are by far my favorite. I love how they express their feelings through surreal settings or unusual objects. In my own art, I strive to translate emotion in a similar manner through still life photography

 

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Gallery Comment:

Ann Bodan's still life work, apparently undisturbed by computer manipulation, are small theatres for dreams and memory. Their meanings are, of course, open to interpretation. But the works we saw are not about meaning. They are about sensations and associations, with a reverence for the miniscule and the light that reveals their hidden substance. The image of glowing plastic hands perched on their wooden base against black is captivating and remains impressed in the mind as an homage to the insignificant
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