Brian Shumway’s project Happy Valley, a decade-long exploration of his Mormon roots, was featured on TIME Lightbox. View additional images from this series on the Redux Archive.
Brian Shumway’s new project Modern Medieval was published on featureshoot.com. View additional images on the Redux Archive here.
Brian Shumway’s work was featured on aCurator.com.
Please join Brian Shumway for the opening reception of FIRST CLASS / SECOND CLASS at Asya Geisberg Gallery (537B West 23rd Street, NYC) on March 31, 2011 from 6 – 8pm.
Brian Shumway is part of a group show organized by Humble Arts and Taschen Books called group show TASCHEN.
Opening reception: Thursday, September 30, 6 PM at TASCHEN Store New York
107 Greene Street
New York, NY 10012
For more event details and to RSVP, click HERE…
Brian Shumway’s photo for a piece about falling prices in the U.S. and the economic recovery, for the May 31st, 2010 issue of Bloomberg Businessweek.
Brian Shumway’s “Black Girl” project is the latest feature over at burn magazine.
burn, curated by Magnum photographer David Alan Harvey and designed by Anton Kusters, describes itself as “the leading edge in visual storytelling.” We could not agree more with this statement.
From the burn site;
“Modeling is an addiction.” Johanie, 24, aspiring model
Black Girl is a portrait series on young black women in the New York City area who aspire to be models.
Even as little girls, many women dream of becoming a model. The glamour of strutting along the runway with cameras flashing, being a spokesmodel for the latest line of make-up, or being plastered on billboards in Times Square can be too enticing to ignore…
There is, however, a huge segment of aspiring models who will find attaining their dream disproportionately difficult. They are black women… At the February 2010 New York Fashion Week, a whopping 85% of all models used on the runway were white, just 8% black. This is in no way representative of New York City’s, the United States’, or the world’s population… In doing this project, I used a modeling website to contact models. I found that, despite so few black professionals, nearly three-thousand young black women (just within 50 miles of my NYC zip code) are striving to attain their dream, or at least their interpretation of it.
Despite the odds and a stark downturn in the fashion, advertising, and magazine industries, these aspiring models have high hopes and remain steadfast. … Using an approach that is part anthropology and part fantasy, the women photographed are a cross-section of real people who want to do every kind of modeling, from runway, high-end fashion, print or commercial work to eye-candy and artistic nudes… I hope that these portraits can in some way contribute to their pursuit.
You can see all of Brian’s piece here.
From Feature Shoot:
Brian Shumway is a New York City based photographer whose work blurs the line between portraiture, documentary and fine art photography. He has worked for the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Time, XXL and the New York Times, among others. Of this series he writes, ‘Black Girl is an ongoing portrait series about young black women in the New York City area who aspire to be models of all types.
Brian Shumway photographed the making of Oprah’s Oscar de la Renta gown for the May 17, 2010 edition of People.
Camera Club of New York 2009 Juried Competition Show
Location: Calumet 22 West 22nd Street, New York
Date: December 4th, 2009
Time: 6-8pm
Redux photographers Brian Shumway and Myriam Abdelaziz are featured after receiving honorable mentions. Hope to see you there!
