Contact Ellin
646-400-1798 | ellin@ellinpollachek.com | Available at SATCHIart.com
Artist’s Statement
Photography is a form of alchemy and the image is the gold.
A photographer sees an image, takes the picture and then the magic begins.
Sometimes in the camera; other times in the darkroom.
It is somewhere betwen the actual and the imaginary that the mystical occurs.
“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.”
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008 From Seed to Soul. Deborah Davis Fine Arts Gallery. Hudson, New York
2004 India's Mountains: Everest & Beyond. Catskill Mountain Foundation
2002 Mountainous India. Catskill Mountain Gallery. Hunter, New York
1985 India. Indian Consulate. Rockefeller Center, New York
1984 The Palaces of Rajasthan. Private Show at Oberoi compound in New Delhi, India
1982 India. Indian Consulate. Rockefeller Center, New York
Selected Group Shows
2003 Decked. Safe-T Gallery. Brooklyn, New York.
2002 Curated and included prints. No Entry: Passport Denied. A show of places that are no longer open to travellers but once were.
2001 Through The Lens. Greene County Council on the Arts Mountaintop Gallery. Windham, New York.
2001 Hudson Valley. Currently showing Foggy Morn in the Catskill Mountain Gallery and Bookstore on Main Street in Hunter, New York.
2000 A River Flows to the Sea. Greene County Council of the Arts. Catskill, New York.
1995 How ‘Bout You Come Back To Me Later . A collection of cameraless photographs. NYU’s Barney Building.
1995 10 Voices. Photographs using the body as ground and culture as an implant.
Education
New York University, PhD. January, 1999. Program in Culture and Communications, Department of Humanities. Dissertation examined the works of Andres Serrano, What similarities and differences, if any, can be perceived from an analyis of the critical responses to transgressive art in two different art forms.
International Center for Photography. Many classes.
Duke University of Documentary Studies. Studied with Wendy Ewald.
New School for Social Research. Photography courses.
Selected Awards
2021 16th Black & White Spider Awards - Nominated, Category: People | Title: Prayer at the Western Wall
2021 16th Black & White Spider Awards - Nominated, Category: Still Life | Title: The Shamrock Orbweaver / Spider on Garlic
2020 Annual 14th International Color Awards - Nominated, Category: Aerial | Title: Aerial View of Lake Palace Workers / Leaving for Home (Udaipur, India)
2018 Annual 12th International Color Awards - Nominated, Category: Wildlife | Title: Camels at Sunset
2018 16th Black & White Spider Awards - Nominated, Category: Wildlife | Title: Gray Angur
2018 Annual 12th International Color Awards - Nominated, Category: Nature | Title: Autumn
2017 Annual 11th International Color Awards - Nominated, Category: Nature | Title: Heron Against Pink Sky
2015 Annual 9th International Color Awards - Nominated, Category: People | Title: The Subway Rider
2011 Annual 5th Photography Masters Cup - Nominated, Category: People | Title: At The Met
2011 Annual 5th Photography Masters Cup - Nominated, Category: Wildlife | Title: Cabbage Worm
2010 Annual 5th International Color Awards - Nominated, Category: Fine Art | Title: Alone in Chelsea
2009 Annual 6th Photography Masters Cup - Nominated, Category: Abstract | Title: Birth
