Bronx Council On The Arts
BRIO Award

BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) provides support for artistic development of individuals creating works of literary, media, performing, and visual arts in the Bronx.

Bronx Council On The Arts

Bronx Council On The Arts awarded me a BRIO grant. BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) provides support for artistic development of individuals creating works of literary, media, performing, and visual arts in the Bronx. The award ceremony will take place on June 4th, 2008 at Longwood Art Gallery at 450 Grand Concourse. The ceremony starts at 5pm.

date posted: 13 May, 2008

Yale University School of Art

It's been a hectic spring...waiting to hear back from the graduate programs I applied to, going through the interview process, waiting to get the final results...And it all ended up in the best way possible! I was accepted to Yale University School of Art MFA Program in Photography! I can't wait to meet other 8 students who were accepted to the program as well (David Bush, Lucas Foglia, Kate Green, Tatiana Grigorenko, Curran Hatleberg, Tiffani Hooper, Rory Mulligan, and Monika Sziladi) and to see in which direction will this stimulating environment take my work.

date posted: 10 April, 2008

MFA

Applications for MFA programs are in the mail. I can only hope that my best will be enough to get me into the program of my choice. We shall see...:)

date posted: 23 December, 2007

Breathing in Kabwe

After months of working on my portfolio from Zambia, I finally found a way to combine both verbal and visual text on a single print. My friend Donald Mengay wrote a beautiful memoir of our experiences in Kabwe, and I used that essay as a base for the text I handwrote alongside the images. It is definitely not a typical documentary portfolio. It is not meant to be only about "us" or "them" as representatives of two very distinct cultures, but about the relationship between the two. How we saw Kabweans, and how Kabweand saw us.

date posted: 5 December, 2007

Back from Zambia...

What an experience that was! I never expected to come back to New York with more than a good portfolio. However, during my stay in Kabwe I had to deal with my fear of failing to deliver superb images, my obsessive need to be in full control, my biases I never even knew I had, and my hosts' biases who saw me only as a passerby with a fancy camera who never had (so they thought) to deal with the problems of sheer survival to the extent they did. A number of times I wanted to give up and return home, but I pushed myself to stay...And I am so glad I did! Now when this part of the project is behind me, I have to find a way to present the photographs in a way that will reflect my full experience: both visual and emotional.

date posted: 18 September, 2007

Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Traveling Fellowship

Today, I got a phone call from Mr. John Hose from Brandeis University informing me that I was awarded Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Traveling Fellowship! I proposed to document effects of the pulution on the local population and environment in three most poluted cities in the world: Kabwe, Zambia; Linfen, China; and Dzerzhinsk, Russia. My first stop iz Kabwe. I'm planning to start working on the project in mid June.

date posted: 4 May, 2007

Chicago Museum of Contemporary Photography

It is confirmed! Nine photographs from my series Partners in Crime will be part of the MOCP Summer Show Relative Closeness: Portraits of Family and Friends! My photos will be in the same show with icons of photography such as Harry Callahan and Sally Mann! The show will be opened from 15 June till 4 August. Curator: Karen Irvine.

date posted: 12 April, 2007

Volitant Gallery

Five Photographs from the series Partners in Crime will be exhibited in Volitant Gallery, Austin, TX. The show will open May 4 - June 16, 2007. Curator: Amy Griffin.

date posted: 28 March, 2007

Farmani Gallery

Photograph Kurt Walters and George Karabotsos, Brooklyn, NY, 2005 from the series Partners in Crime will be exhibited in Farmani Gallery, Los Angeles, CA as a part of a IPA 2007 Best of Show exhibition. The show will open January 25 - 31, 2007. Curator: Colin Westerbeck, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL.

date posted: 13 January, 2007

American Photo Images of the Year Competition

The series Partners in Crime was awarded honorable mention in the First American Photo Magazine Images of the Year Competition. Jurors: Anthony Bannon, director of the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York; William Hunt, co-director of the Hasted Hunt Gallery in New York City; Marcel Saba, owner of the Redux photo agency in New York; Natasha Lunn, photo editor of The New Yorker magazine; and Robert Gilson, the director of the School of the Arts at the 92nd Street Y in New York.

date posted: 22 November, 2006

Center for Photographic Art Gallery - 16th Annual Center Awards Exhibition

Sarah Greenough, Curator of Photographs, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. selected photograph Lorraine Tretka and Nancy Vala, Sussex, NJ, 2005 from the series Partners in Crime to be part of the 16th Annual Center Awards Exhibition.

date posted: 12 October, 2006

International Photography Awards - Best of Show 2006

Photograph Kurt Walters and George Karabotsos, Brooklyn, NY, 2005 from the series Partners in Crime was selected to be part of the traveling Best of Show 2006 that will visit 9 countries in the coming year! The first show opens in London, UK on October 6, 2006. Curator: Colin Westerbeck, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL

date posted: 21 September, 2006

International Photography Awards 2006

My portfolio Partners in Crime was awarded one 1st, two 2nd and three 3rd places in People and Fine Art categories.

date posted: 17 September, 2006

London Photographic Awards

Project A Picture Window on Cleveland was awarded honorable mention in the LPA's Annual competition for documentary photography. Four photographs from the series will be a part of group exhibitions in London and Manchester, UK. The Judges were Monica Allende, Picture Editor in Sunday Times Magazine; Jo Hodges, Lecturer; Kevin O'Connor, Director of the LPA.

date posted: 11 September, 2006

Golden Light Awards 2006

Photographs from the series Partners in Crime were awarded honorable mention in the Portraiture category. The 2006 Golden Light Awards were juried by: Kathy Ryan, Photo Editor of The New York Times Magazine and Catherine Johnson, Vice President and Senior Art Buyer of Arnold Worldwide, and Photo Editor.

date posted: 4 July, 2006

Photography Now 2006

My portfolio Partners in Crime was selected to be part of the DVD Photography Now - One Hundred Portfolios.
Jurors for the project were Kathleen Ewing of the Kathleen Ewing Gallery and the Association of International Photography Art Dealers, Washington, D.C.; Ron Geibert of Wright State University; Jeffrey Hoone of Light Work in Syracuse, N.Y.; Shino Kuraishi of the Yokohama Museum of Art in Yokohama, Japan; Tina Schelhorn of Licht Blick in Cologne, Germany, and Rod Slemmons of The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.

date posted: 17 June, 2006

DaedalusPhoto News

Project A Picture Window on Cleveland is going to be featured in a June 2006 issue of DaedalusPhoto News Magazine.

date posted: 31 May, 2006

PDN Photo Annual 2006

Photographs from the series Partners in Crime will be published in the PDN Photo Annual 2006. The 2006 Awards celebration will be held in Hiro Ballroom of the Maritime Hotel (363 W16 St/NYC) on Wednesday, May 17 at 7:00pm.

date posted: 3 May, 2006

London Photographic Awards 2006

I was awarded Third place-Bronze for his series Partners in Crime. I've been working so hard on this series and I am extremely happy that it received this recognition on the first competition I submited it for! The work can be seen in Calumet Photographic, London, UK through 28 April 2006.

date posted: 6 March, 2006

International Photography Awards 2005

For my photograph Young Woman in a Bathtub-Bronx, NY, June 2004, I won First place in People/Lifestyle category. The winning photograph will also be published in the 2005 Annual IPA Book in May 2006.

date posted: 7 September, 2005

Best of Photography Annual 2005

In December 2005, my photograph Betzy I, New York, NY, May 2004 will be published in the Best of Photography Annual 2005.

date posted: 3 September, 2005

B&W Annual 2005

Photograph Reflection, New York, NY, June 2003 will be published in B&W Annual for 2005. The Annual will be available in September.

date posted: 25 August, 2005

Americas 2000

Two prints from the series Subterranea will be featured in the exhibition Americas 2000 in Northwest Art Center, Minot, ND from 24 August til 27 September 2005.

date posted: 18 July, 2005

Gallery 214

Two photographs from the series Metrosex: A Victorian Secret, done in the colabortion with Donald Mengay, will be featured in a show in Gallery 214, Montclair, NJ from 1-15 may 2005. The juror for the show was Jerry Saltz

date posted: 24 April, 2005

Monthly Photo, South Korea - Cover page

A number of my photos will be featured in April's issue of Monthly Photography, published in Seul, South Korea. In addition to the work in the body of the magazine, photograph Young Couple-Buffalo, NY, March 2004 will be printed on a cover of the magazine!

date posted: 2 March, 2005

C-Fizz Gallery

Seven prints from the series Subterranea will be shown in C-Fizz Gallery, Brooklyn, NY from 3-16 December, 2004.

date posted: 18 November, 2004

American Photo

Photograph Polish Girl-Queens, NY May 2003 was one of the winners of the Readersê Contest No.8 organized by American Photo Magazine, and will be published in its November's issue.

date posted: 6 October, 2004

GoFish Gallery

Eight photographs from my Portraits series will be part of the show that will take place in GoFish gallery, New York, NY from 20 January til 3 February 2004.

date posted: 5 January, 2004