E L E N A B U R N H A M P H O T O
Elena is a Long Island raised, NYC based photographer. She has had work shown in Washington DC's Congressional Tunnel, the Angel Orensanz Foundation in NYC, and the East End Art Council in Riverhead, New York. She enjoys language, animals, and nature, and strives to express her love of these through her melancholy, dreamlike works. Elena studies psychology and arabic language at Hunter College, laughs at her own jokes, and is an overall poor drinker. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York with her elder sister and their cat.
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2/12/14
On Sunday I was featured on Muybridge's Horse- I think this is a big deal because I enjoy Emma Kisiel's work immensely (will put a link to her site and MH at the bottom of the post) and MH features amazing artists who's work centers around animals and nature, to put it in a small, insufficient nutshell. So, it's great company to be in. An excerpt from Emma's review:
When Elena emailed me a few months ago about her up-close, abstract study of the equine, I was quite interested in her photographs and spent a long while looking at them. The images have a great plastic camera quality to them and make me think of someone trying to describe a dream they had of horses. The pictures transform the animal; it looks so different from how one normally imagines it. I actually had a hard time deciphering what I was looking at in many of the photographs, often thinking at first it was a landscape or a girl or a doll (that braid of blond hair and bright blue eye are fantastic, no?), or just mixing up what part of a horse I was seeing.
I am more than thrilled. See the complete post HERE
muybridge's horse emma kisiel
A W A R D S
n i c e t h i n g s p e o p l e h a v e s a i d :
".....The tousled hair of the horses mane, between the ears… the horse in the mist… the way the snowflakes are vignetted against the front of the black silhouette trotting through the snow. Beyond the actual event, you create an emotion, one which can’t entirely be put into words. It’s that “lump in the throat” which Robert Frost always was trying to convey, and was successful in conveying in his poem “The Runaway.” “
-kevin mccavoy
".... the images have a great plastic camera quality to them and make me think of someone trying to describe a dream they had of horses. "
-emma kisiel
"One favorite of this critic is “Que Sera” by Elena Burnham where drops of water are positioned on a horse’s head. The black and white work and the worm’s eye view evoke an arresting compositional contrast."..