Graduate Photography

I moved from London to NY to study and work as a photographer. My travels throughout Asia during my undergraduate degree inspired and informed much of my photographic and printmaking work. While the streets of New York City have provided an interesting stage, my final thesis took me back to the streets of Delhi and the small Himalayan village that seats the Dalai Lama where he lived prior to attending to Pratt. In my recent photography I use the street as a medium to introduce my own ideas of survival, death and human interrelation. Ben Hider, MFA 2008

I work with anticipation and aftermath, never photographing the main event, but rather the quiet yet heavy moments before and after.  Snow Globe operates through a cinematic language of narrative stops, starts, and pauses.  Unlike photography that emphasizes information and detail I have chosen to emphasize atmosphere and tone.  An ominous tone reinforces a critical point of view, where the sense of suburban dysfunction coincides with the comfort of familiarity and the chill of loneliness. Eva Fazzari, 2009

50 Blue is a body of work that comprises of video works, photographs and drawings. It aims to inspect a cross-generational ongoing frustration from emotional, social and political stagnation. When I was 5 years old my father had a truck accident from which he remained paralyzed from his chest down. I have no memory of my dad walking. I spent my childhood looking down when approaching him and not up like in any normal father-son relationship. I have always had a dream of lifting him onto a high platform so that I can finally return him to the place where he deserves to be. 50 Blue starts as personal journey and becomes a struggle that addresses social ideals of heroism, team spirit, mythical power and redemption.  Oded Hirsch, MFA 2008