honorable mention
Joshua Sarinana united states
Photo © Joshua Sarinana
title
Alone Together
uncomfortable space that I often occupy. These images represent
that aforementioned space. I aim to invoke feelings of familiarity
and detachment through seemingly universal spaces that could be
anywhere or no place at all. My goal is to create an empathic
relationship between the audience and myself, drawing in the
viewer while keeping them at an outside distance.
Nostalgia advances with technology exemplified by the use of
retro filter apps that pays homage to artists such as Stephen Shore
and William Eggleston, but repeating to excess the social sharing
and instability of images a la the Polaroid camera. Prints are
tangible in a way that contemporary images are not; the same way
that connection with another person differs when mediated by a
screen. Although the feeds of phones are loud there is a quietness
brought about by peering into rectangular boxes.
Sariñana has had a solo exhibition at the Griffin Museum of Photography, shown at the Houston Center for Photography, Photoville, and the Center for Fine Art Photography.
His work has been recognized by the Sony World Photography Awards, Communication Arts, PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris, and the Head On Photo Awards. His work has been published in Silvershotz Magazine, Monovisions Magazine, Better Photography Magazine, and ScieArt Magazine. He is also the recipient of a Council for Arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Grant. In addition, Sariñana's work has been featured on The Guardian, Buzzfeed, The Huffington Post, and Time. One of his images was also licensed for an iPhone 6 commercial ad.
Sariñana has published several articles on the intersection of photography, neuroscience including in the photography periodicals Don’t Take Pictures and The Smart View. He has also been interviewed by several influential photography blogs as well as Vice Magazine. Sariñana currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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entry description
The contrast between isolation and connectedness creates anuncomfortable space that I often occupy. These images represent
that aforementioned space. I aim to invoke feelings of familiarity
and detachment through seemingly universal spaces that could be
anywhere or no place at all. My goal is to create an empathic
relationship between the audience and myself, drawing in the
viewer while keeping them at an outside distance.
Nostalgia advances with technology exemplified by the use of
retro filter apps that pays homage to artists such as Stephen Shore
and William Eggleston, but repeating to excess the social sharing
and instability of images a la the Polaroid camera. Prints are
tangible in a way that contemporary images are not; the same way
that connection with another person differs when mediated by a
screen. Although the feeds of phones are loud there is a quietness
brought about by peering into rectangular boxes.
about the photographer
Dr. Joshua Sariñana was born in San José, California. He obtained his neuroscience degrees at the University of California, Los Angeles and in a Nobel Prize winning lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). After MIT, Sariñana became a research fellow at Harvard Medical School where he studied the computational processing of spatial navigation. Sariñana is currently a fine arts photographer and writer.Sariñana has had a solo exhibition at the Griffin Museum of Photography, shown at the Houston Center for Photography, Photoville, and the Center for Fine Art Photography.
His work has been recognized by the Sony World Photography Awards, Communication Arts, PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris, and the Head On Photo Awards. His work has been published in Silvershotz Magazine, Monovisions Magazine, Better Photography Magazine, and ScieArt Magazine. He is also the recipient of a Council for Arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Grant. In addition, Sariñana's work has been featured on The Guardian, Buzzfeed, The Huffington Post, and Time. One of his images was also licensed for an iPhone 6 commercial ad.
Sariñana has published several articles on the intersection of photography, neuroscience including in the photography periodicals Don’t Take Pictures and The Smart View. He has also been interviewed by several influential photography blogs as well as Vice Magazine. Sariñana currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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