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Sean Hemmerle

Biography: Working on his own or on assignment for top publications, Sean Hemmerle focuses principally on architecture and urban landscapes in crisp, color photographs. He approaches these manmade structures and settlements with a keen eye for their distinctive formal qualities, as well as for the stories they convey about the people who have used, abandoned, or, sometimes, fought bitterly over them. He has captured war-affected Middle Eastern cities, luxury corporate headquarters in American cities, the changing face of Shanghai, and journalists at work in newsrooms. Hemmerle’s photographs provide a remarkably palpable sense of place; in one understated series, he shot isolated basketball nets in North America, Europe, and the Middle East, each set into markedly different surroundings, and altered by the affects of time.

Born: 8 December 1966 Tempe, AZ

Gallery representation: Feroz Galerie, Bonn Germany; Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Education: MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY; BA, University of Miami, Miami, FL

One-person exhibitions include: Feroz Galerie, Bonn, Germany; Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Sanctuary for Independent Media, Troy, NY; Westchester Arts Center, White Plains, NY; Brooks Brothers Liberty Square, New York, NY; James Francis Trezza Gallery, New York, NY; Filtro, Miami, FL

Group exhibitions include: International Center for Photography, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL; Paris Photo, Paris, France and Los Angeles, CA; AIPAD, New York, NY; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL; Open Society Foundations, New York, NY; Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China; Sotheby’s, New York, NY; The French Embassy, New York, NY; Pont Du Machine Bridge, Geneva, Switzerland; Frances Wolfson Gallery, Miami, FL; Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, NY; Saatchi Gallery, London, UK; Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT; Branch Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC; Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY

Publications include: The New York Times Magazine, Time, Newsweek, Harper’s, Le Monde 2, New York, Die Zeit, The Sunday Telegraph, The New York Times, Metropolis, Daylight Magazine, Columbia Journalism Review, and Princeton Architectural Press

Awards include: Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Time Magazine Pictures of the Year, Communications Arts Photography Annual, American Photography 25