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- • Khamra Obscura (2011), [Buy a copy! $90] | [iPad ebook available soon]
- • The Citadel is Everywhere (2012), [Buy a copy! $80] | [iPad ebook available soon]
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Contact, Media, and Internet Baubles
Contact me via email - jon(dot)anzalone(at)gmail(dot)com
Shop at my Etsy Store
View my work on Flickr
Visit my Goodreads Profile
Follow my Photoblog
Portfolio: 2007 - 2010
A selection of photographs from 2007 - 2010. This work is collected in The Citadel is Everywhere, in a series of about 90 photographs. Images from America, Sweden, Romania, India, Latvia, and others.
Portfolio: 2011
A selection of photographs from 2011. This work is collected in Khamra Obscura, in a series of about 800 photographs taken over the course of one single day in Istanbul.
Explore the full set on Flickr or check out a selection of my favorites.
New Project Announced: Passage to Svaneti
I’ve long been an urbanist. As a child of suburban Long Island, I developed a distaste for featureless sprawl, and I gravitated naturally toward New York City. In my travels I dedicated myself to cities, both historic and understated. I love the street wall and corridors of beautiful and dull buildings. I love the isolating anonymity of people and the crowd. I love the multitude of cultures vibrant and shifting from block to block.
But now I will find Svaneti.
This project will take me from my comfort zone, out of the urban environments in which I have made my photographic career. I will begin in one such historic city, Tbilisi, the Tiflis of ages past, a place that I have always wanted to see, and make my way to Kutaisi, Georgia’s second city. Then, I will find passage to Svaneti into the Caucasus mountains to Ushguli, in the shadow of Mount Shkhara. This is a collection of small villages, considered to be the highest continuously populated settlement in Europe, populated by about 70 families.
I will take myself from the city to the no-city.
In the coming weeks, I will finalize the Kickstarter and official launch my plans for this journey.
The Citadel is Everywhere is a collection of about 90 photographs, taken in Romania, India, Turkey, Sweden, Latvia, and elsewhere. The work tells a story about alienation and makes a journey through cities of the world following a person—or a shadow, or a dream, or an idea—which becomes less and less tangible as it slips from memory.
It contains contains about 90 images neatly collected in a beautiful, 160-page, 8x10 hardcover book. All copies are signed and editioned. If you are ordering from within NYC or outside the US, please get in touch with me for shipping arrangements. (jon.anzalone (at) gmail.com)
Buy a Copy ($80 + $10 shippping)
On 3 April 2011, photographer Jon Michael Anzalone went out into Istanbul and shot 24 rolls of film over 24 consecutive hours. Khamra Obscura is the total collection of those photographs, presented in sequence. The work seeks to establish familiarity with a city in the Islamic cultural sphere in order to foster mutual understanding.
Khamra Obscura is both a photographer’s journey to discover a place and a personal journey to understand the process of artistic creation. The images are strong individually but, read as a whole, illustrate the momentum and buildup of ideas and themes. Eventually, the poetry of the city and the poetry of art align and interact to form a strong and unified body of work which celebrates both the human spirit and the culture in which it was created.
Khamra Obscura contains about 700 images neatly collected in a beautiful 440-page, 7x7 book. All copies are signed and editioned. If you are ordering from within NYC or outside the US, please get in touch with me for shipping arrangements. (jon.anzalone (at) gmail.com)
Buy a Copy ($90 + $10 shippping)
PHOTOBLOG
I share about two photographs every day from my recent projects.
Creative Resume
Jon Michael Anzalone is a photographer and world traveler. He has traveled and worked extensively in India, Turkey, Romania, the Baltic region, and Western Europe. His photography has been collected in two books: Khamra Obscura (2011) and The Citadel is Everywhere (2012).
INTERVIEWS
Jon Michael Anzalone - Noise in the Soul - Feature Article [begins page 51] (f8mag.com)
Chasing Alienation with a Camera - Short writeup in local culture blog (bushwickbk.com)
EXHIBITIONS
2011, Photobook!!2011, curated by Davis Orton Gallery. Hudson, NY. Khamra Obscura, selected as one of twenty great photobooks of 2011.
2010, PLAY AMERICA, curated by Sister Sylvester. Brooklyn, NY. Installation as part of the ambiance of an experimental theater production in the disused convent of St. Cecilia’s Church. Utilizing the found-space aesthetic of the ruined religious space, an exhibit was created showing that the exhibit area had decayed before, during, and after installation to the effect of a museum still standing after a war.
2010, BUSHWICK OPEN STUDIOS: HISTORICAL/NOVELTY, curated by the artists. Brooklyn, NY. Group exhibition with three other photographers displaying 16 pieces of recent work. Part of the Bushwick Open Studios walking tour, a yearly community event showcasing the work of local artists throughout the neighborhood. Taking place in a historic former brewery, challenges included embracing the lofty, lightless, and graffiti-covered space and installing a creatively designed exhibition, adding a new page to the life of this commensurately Brooklyn space.
2010, BUSHWICK LOCAL, curated by Sadie Flateman & EVENTA CO. Brooklyn, NY. Group exhibition featuring eight artists in various mediums. Presented one room of framed black & white photography and one room with a meticulously calculated installation of mostly color work exploring and inverting ideas of Rumi’s search for the beloved.
2010, INDUSTRIOUS * SENTIMENT * TRANSITION, curated by the artists. Brooklyn, NY. Group exhibition with two other photographers exploring the concept of struggle from different vantage points. Presented a series of landscapes which actively abstract themselves between reality and surreality, between life and impossibility of life.
2006, MOCCA Cafe Exhibition, curated by MOCCA. New York, NY. Group exhibition exhibiting early photographs at now-defunct MOCCA cafe.
