This series of image of a train station in Japan—
painted in black and white patterns so that the
station presents a two dimensional reality—
breaks down, twists, and re-assembles it to the
point where, despite retaining all of the station’s
elements, it is fractured beyond easy
recognition, forcing the viewer into a kind of
perceptual uncertainty
As an artist working with lens-based imagery, L Bahr’s stated intention is “to disrupt ingrained habits of perception by questioning the nature of the photographic object itself.”
Though the images Bahr creates typically bear some vestige of respresentation, they all, in varying ways, deliberately misconstrue and negate the traditional view that photography is bound exclusively to representation, calling basic presumptions into question—the relativity of dimensional parameters, for example, or the notion that photographs are, of necessity, bound by any narrative drive.
Thank you so much!
Awards 2017
Tokyo International Foto Award: GOLD (fine art book)
“Contemplating the Grid, Dimensional Anomalies”
Tokyo International Foto Award: BRONZE (fine art-collage)
“Kimono”
Prix De La Photographie Paris: H.Mention (fine art book)
“Contemplating the Grid, Dimensional Anomalies”
Prix De La Photographie Paris: H.Mention (fine art series)
“Uno Station, Tamano Japan”
Prix De La Photographie Paris: H.Mention (fine art-collage)
”Kimono”
Prix De la Photographie Paris: H.Mention (fine art-collage)
”Architectural Reconstruction, Tokyo Japan”
Fine Art Photography Awards: 2H.Mentions (fine art/open)
”Sakyo-Ku Graveyard, Ad Astra, Kyoto Japan”
Fine Art Photography Awards: 2H.Mentions (abstract/conceptual “Contemplating the Grid, Dimensional Anomalies”
Fine Art Photography Awards: H.Mention (fine art-collage)
”Kimono”
Fine Art Photography Awards: H.Mention (photomanipulation)
“Refuge, Homage to Malevich”
ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA (group show)
”Refuge, Homage to Malevich”
2018
Tokyo International Foto Award:H.Mention (fine art series)
”Sakyo-Ku Graveyard, Ad Astra, Kyoto Japan”
All About Photo Magazine, ‘Light’: Finalist
”Spirit Atlas", Cairo Egypt”
