BIO: Nancy Oliveri is an American fine art photographer born in Providence Rhode Island in1958.She studied film, photography and conceptual art at the Hartford Art School in the early eighties and has since been the recipient of numerous international awards and honors for her photography and twenty self-published books. Her two most recent collections of AI imagery based on her own photography, were published by the Ph21 Gallery in Budapest.
Statement: I use my camera to explore my new community on a barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico.I titled the series “Strangers” because I didn’t know anyone or the community culture here and was thinking about my previous approach to urban street photography in NYC. I focused on individuals, the scale and light in a natural rather than a crowded man made landscape. Here, the minimalist landscape includes the clouds, water and hurricane damaged pier and strangers.
