Exhibitions: Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition

Remigiusz Pyrdol. Sylwek, 2008. All rights reserved

Artist Statement

New arrivals to Brooklyn are building a new life on the remnants of the old one. This new influx of people is drastically changing the social landscape. Not assimilating to the neighborhoods old culture. New comers are creating their own intimacy of domestic life. Photographed at dust using negative film and tungsten lighting. The subject is surrounded by saturated and sometimes opposing colors that test our perception of familiarity.

18 Comments

The image is interesting but lifeless.

sat dishes = gentrification

Kinda blown out but I like the idea

LOVE THIS

This is a great, hapless city life portrait. Long for the days of radio?

The contrast of light, dark, old antennas and new dishes,bring colors in foreground and dark in background really address the theme of changing faces.

Good shot.

While I really like the composition and color of this photograph, I'm not sure how it is representative of the changing social landscape - are satalite dishes new arrivals to Brooklyn?

an interesting portrait lost in its own explanation. He fixes dishes, he's from Poland. Or he could be .... Why does he avoid the camera?

not only of brooklyng . positive use of the colour. high tecnique. a little banal the message

techinically pretty good, boring subject...

The photograph's colors are bold and this requires great technical skill. As for the visual metaphor, the satelite dishes and the old building do not present themselves as dramatically contrast.

I'm noticing lots of typos and unchecked grammer in the captions. Like this one--"dust" should probably be "dusk". Because you are trying to tell a specific story with these photos, the captions can be important.

Some have a choice--deciding whether or not to assimilate.

quick somebody write a proto-punk song called dish man

I like it. Brooklyn connecting to the world

I like the aesthetics—and I'm left wondering what this person is doing with so many satellite dishes. A perfectly sensible solution occurs to me, hot on the heels of an utterly nonsense one... Is he rewiring an old house to be an apartment building, with each dweller getting a separate dish? Or defending himself from alien space rays?

It is bold and stark and has a moving calmness about it.