March 17th, 2012
Spotlight Artist | Michael M. Koehler
In Nature/Human, photographer, Michael M. Koehler addresses the human condition in a series of poignant black-and-white portraits and landscapes taken across the United States, Europe and South America. The series, which was first exhibited in a two-person show at Mallick Williams & Co in New York and then subsequently a solo presentation at Get This! Gallery in Atlanta, explores Koehler’s interest in people and their natural settings. Koehler, who has previously photographed for Paddle8, focuses his attention on revealing existing tensions, quiet moments and the balance between pain and beauty.
Koehler describes his grainy black and white photographs as authentic moments where ” trust, experience, and the gift of vulnerability is exchanged.” His portraits of a man confronting the camera as he is being handcuffed or an elderly man in a wheelchair whistling to caged birds depict periods of tension, sincerity, love, and pain without exploitation or judgment. With Nature/Human, we not only appreciate the immediacy of the scene, but also anticipate what comes after.
For more on Michael M. Koehler, be sure to check out his website, follow him on Twitter, and see a few more photographs on our Paddle8 tumblr.
Tags: Mallick Williams & Co, Michael M. Koehler
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