Immersed in Living Water

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  wendy sacks, United States
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Immersed in Living Water
While working as a Paediatric Emergency Physician, I carried a
camera to document ill patients for teaching purposes and as a
means of remembering cases. Photography unknowingly provided
an outlet for despair, a means for maintaining composure, and
distressing emotions. My sensitivities were inadvertently
interwoven into photographs.
During my mid thirties, I left medicine due to severe arthritis.
Although I missed my patients and medicine, I had to come to
terms with knowing I could not care for both family and patients
due to limitations. Instead, limitations became an opportunity to
become a mother with freedom to express love and joy and an
opportunity for creative liberty. Despite increasingly difficult
challenges and joint deterioration, the need for reconstruction and
joint replacement one by one, my love photography deepened as I
discovered a world of art I had never fully explored, an artist
inside myself I had never known, and a therapeutic diversion with
a new life as a person with chronic pain.
My role as a mother change and I was challenged. I brought the
camera back into my life to capture my life at home. To perform of
the activities of daily living, an occupational therapist suggested I
bathe with my young children since I couldn’t lift them into the
tub. Eventually, I brought my camera to the tub. When I looked
through the lens this time, life and death looked different to me.
Through the lens, I remembered my world of medicine, I
remembered the children who were sick and had died in my care,
the children who had been born and who had healed, the children
whom I barely had time to mourn or celebrate their lives while
working as a physician. Overwhelming feelings sealed away in my
subconscious began to emerge.
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  My Account cart WENDY SACKS HomeGalleriesAboutCurriculum VitaeContact Curriculum Vitae Education: Photography: Life Formal Education: University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Emergency Medicine New York Medical College, Pediatric Residency Boston University B.A. Psychology List of Works: Series 1: Immersed in Living Water Series 2: Monsters in the Closet Collections: La Bibliothèque Nationale de France Dali Photography Museum, Yunnan Province, China Shijazhuang Art Museum, Shijazhuang, Hebei Province, China High Noon Art and Culture , Beijing, China Private collections worldwide Awards: 2014 Kolga Tbilisa Photo 2014. Kolga Award Conceptial Category. Jurors, Bill Kouwenhoven, Tina Schelhorn, David Tskhadadaze, Wolfgang Zurborn. 2013 Foto D.C. International Award Competition, First Place, Fine Art 2013, Jurors, Christopher Addison and Frank Meo http://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2013/10/31/shutter-to-think/ Photo Review Magazine , 2013 Competition issue inclusion, 2013, Juror, Paul Roth, Senior Curator and Director, Photography and Media Arts, at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. International Fine Art Photography Award Grand Prix De La Découverte Finalist, Third Place, Paris France 2013 Jurors, Anne Biroleau, Curator Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Didler Brousse, Director Camera Obscura, Paris, Julie Grahame,Publisher of aCurator magazine, Alexandre Percy, Diretor of ACTE2 Galerie, Paris, David Travis, Author, Curator, and former Chair of the Department of Photography, The Art Institute of Chicago, Hiroshi Watanabe, Photographer, Author, Jeff Cowen, Photographer, Jerry Fielder Photographer, curator, and Director of the Yousuf Karsh Estate, and Elizabeth Corden & Jan Potts Corden | Potts Gallery International Fine Art Photography Award Grand Prix De La Découverte Juror Award of Merit , Paris France (for 2 images) (jurors above). Julia Margaret Cameron 5th edition Gala Award finalist (Immersed in Living Water and Monsters in the Closet) , for portfolios. Jurors: WPGA Jurors Team Kontinent Awards, Honorable Mention 2013, Üçkuyular,Izmir, Turkey, Asia Photo Center Northwest, Seattle, Washington. Musings: 18th Annual Photographic Competition, Finalist, Juror, John A. Bennette Art Laguna Prize, Finalist, Venice, Italy 2012 International Pollux Awards , Photographer of the Year, Jurors: WPGA Jurors Team International Pollux Awards , Photographer of the Year, Fine Art Division , WPGA Jurors Team Third Edition of the Jacob Riis Award (honorable mention) , WPGA Jurors Team Terry O’Neill Tag Award Finalist (2nd place) , London, England, Jurors,Terry O'Neill, Photographer, Sean De Sparengo, Photographer, Grant Scott, Founder and Editor Hungry Eye Magazine, Lucinda Chua, Artist and Manager Strand Gallery, London, Jon Jones, Director of Photography, Sunday Times Magazine, Mike Von Joel, Founder and Editor F22 : State Magazine, Joe Partridge, Photographer, Melissa Dewitt, Editor Hotshoe Magazine. Julia Margaret Cameron Finalist Award 4th edition, WPGA Jurors Team World Wide Photography Gala Awards, Portrait Prize, Honorable Mention World Wide Photography Gala Awards, Street Photography, Finalist, WPGA Jurors Team 2011 Grand Prize Winner, China 2nd Biennial International Photographic Cultural Festival and Museum Exhibition, Lishui, Zhejiang Province, China. American Illustration -American Photography (AI- AP) 28, Chosen Winner, New York, New York Photolucida Critical Mass Finalist, Portland, Oregon Arts and Cultural Council for Greater Rochester, New York, 1st Annual Juried Members Competition “Best in Show”. Jurors, Dr. Peter Giopulos, professor emeritus, the College of Fine and Applied Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology; Louis Grachos, executive director, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; and Leonard Urso, distinguished professor, the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology Selected Exhibitions: Solo: 798 Gallery, Beijing, China The Dashanzi 798 Art District, February 2013, curated, Yan Li, CEO High Noon Culture & Art Corp, High Noon Gallery, Beijing, China Camerawork Gallery Portland,Oregon, September, 2012 Selected Group Exhibitions: "Ladies Only" - Contemporary Women Photographers with portraits of people and landscapes. Tbilisi Museum of Modern Art, Tbilisi, Georgia. May 4 2014. Snap! Orlando, Group Exhibition, 'Edge of a Dream' May 2 2014, Curated by Patrick Kahn Snap! Toronto Photography Auction, Curated by Maryann Camilleri, Founder of the Magenta Foundation, Director Flash Forward Festival, March 10 2014. FotoWalk Underground in Crystal City, Arlington's largest downtown right outside Washington, D.C., November to April 2014. www.crystalcity.org, Foto D.C. International Award Competition exhibition, National Geographic Museum, Washington, D.C. November 1-10 , 2013 15th Annual Friends of Friends Photography: Invitation Only, John A. Bennette, curator, organized by Friends without a Border Benefiting Angkor Hospital for Children, December , 2013 New York City International Fine Art Photography Award Grand Prix De La Découverte exhibition, November, 2013 Paris, France Borges Cultural Center in Buenos Aires in June 2014 Dali International Photography Photography, Southwest China's Yunnan Province, 2013 Lucy Bell Fine Art Gallery 2013, London, England American Life, Traveling Exhibition , Artist Representative and honored guest for representing American Photographers in Shijazhuang Art Museum, Shijazhuang , China February 2013 Photography Open Salon South-East Asia, Penang, Malaysia, 2013, Curated by Vanja Karas Strand Gallery,London, England, 2013 11th Shanghai International Graphic Art Exhibition, High Noon Gallery, Beijing, China.October, 2012 Galerie Huit, Arles, France, Finalist, Arles Photography Open Salon July, 2012, Curated by Vanja Karas PHOTO Gallery, Oakland, California, Bodily Awareness Exhibition, 2012Factory- Art Gallery, Berlin, Germany ”You Can Tell Me!” 2012 International Juried competition. 15th Annual Friends of Friends Photography Auction : Featured Photographer, Image: Seeing Things, Invitation Only, John A. Bennette, curator, organized by Friends without a Border Benefiting Angkor Hospital for Children, December 4, 2012 New York City :http://www.fwabphotoauction.org/ China 2nd Biennial International Photographic Cultural Festival and Museum Exhibition, Lishui, Zhejiang Province, China, November, 2011 Borges Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, November,2012 14th Annual Friends of Friends Photography Auction : Invitation Only, John A. Bennette, curator, organized by Friends without a Border Benefiting Angkor Hospital for Children, December 7, 2010 New York City NO Gallery, Professional Women Photographers 36th Anniversary International Woman’s International Juried Exhibition Exhibition, New York,New York May 9 - May 27. The Light Factory, Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film: 30th Annual Art Auction: Invitation Only, Dennis Keil, Chief Curator. Charlotte, North Carolina November 19, 2011. Arts and Cultural Council for Greater Rochester, NY, Four Artists, Cook, Keyser, Notides-Benzing, and Sacks. November 9-30, 2011. Photoplace Gallery, Again, Reflections and Photography, Juried by Sylvia de Swaan, Middlebury, Vermont Exhibition,2011. Photoplace Gallery, Seeing Myself, Seeing Others: The Art of the Portrait, Juried by Andy Bloxman, Exhibition, 2011.Middlebury, Vermont Griffin Museum: Virtual Gallery, Winchester, Massacheutes 201, curated by Paula Tognarelli Arts and Cultural Council for Greater Rochester, New York:1st Annual Juried Members, July 8-Sept 2, 2011. Awarded “Best in Show.” Dr. Peter Giopulos, professor emeritus, the College of Fine and Applied Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology; Louis Grachos, executive director, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; and Leonard Urso, distinguished professor, the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology Panopticon Gallery: Kids Are People Too,curated by Jason Landry, 2011. Boston, Massachusetts Publications: Book: An Eye for an Ear , Hardback, Edited and Curated by Vanja Karas, (May 2013) submitted Les Renconcontres d'Arles 2013 Book Award Upcoming Books: Photobook , Immersed in Living Water, Claude Nori, Contrejour Publishing House, Paris, France. Photobook , Monsters in the Closet, Claude Nori, Contrejour Publishing House, Paris, France. Magazines/Press/Media Features Washington Post Foto & Video Magazine, Moscow, Russia, January 2014 (Cover and article) Slate Photoblog, Washington Post 2013 Gathering Clouds, A Magazine of Contemporary Art, August 2013. [Four pages] American Photo Magazine September/October 2013 issue "Parting Shot" feature. [One page)] FotoMagazin, Germany, “Kinder, Kinder” March edition, photo editor , Manfred Zollner. [One page, title] Savoir Tout Faire en Photographie, Paris, France–featured article, March 2013. [Four pages] BBC World News, January, 2013 [online] London Times Sunday Magazine January 2013 [ Two page] CNN Worldwide NEWS Blog feature/interview January, 2013 CNN World News [online], Simon Barnett, CNN Digital Director of Photography Lenswork, 90th Edition, featured interview /September 2010 [color DVD], Brooks Jenkins Upcoming: Photography Oxford Festival 2014. 'Photography and Healing' North Wall, September 14 2013-October 5 2014. Invitation by Robin Laurence, Festival Director Shenzhen Photo Week 2014. Shenzhen Museum, Guangdon Province, China. October 22 2014 - October 30 2014. Photographer since 2010. "Captivated by light, paintings, and the human condition since childhood" © wendy sacks |CONTACT | Powered by PhotoShelter