This year we are also very pleased to present three auctions featuring rare photographs from three world-class photographers: Subhankar Banerjee, Daniel Beltrá, and Phil Borges. All attendees of the lottery are eligible to bid on any of these three rare prints.
Artist: Subhankar Banerjee
Donor: Subhankar Banerjee
Title: Bear Den II, 6/29, Retail Value $8,000
Size: 31" x 41"
Website: www.subhankarbanerjee.org
Subhankar Banerjee's current project began in 2000 as a study of the ecological and cultural diversity of the Artic National Wildlife Refuge in all four seasons. His vision has since evolved into a visual exploration of the Arctic's connection to larger global issues such as; resource wars, climate change, toxic migration, and human rights struggles of the indigenous northern communities. His ongoing collaboration with Gwich'in and Inupiat communities of Alaska and the Canadian Yukon, and most recently with the Yukaghir and the Even indigenous communities of Siberia focus on a tradition of sustainable land use practices that are disappearing rapidly from industrialized societies. Subhankar's photographic documentation includes several regions of the American Artic, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the Teshekpuk Lake Wetlands, the Utukok River Uplands, the Kasegaluk Lagoon, and the Beaufort and Chukchi seas; and the Sakha Republic of Siberia.
Artist: Daniel Beltrá
Donor: Daniel Beltrá
Title: Amazon Drought, 2005, #2 of a limited edition of 15,
Retail Value $3,000
Medium: Digital Pigment Print
Size: 24" x 35"
Website: www.danielbeltra.com
Daniel Beltrá is a Spanish photographer based in Seattle. Daniel brings the sensibility and craft of a news photographer to the fields of nature and the environment, making images which he hopes will spur greater respect and conservation of those subjects. He has documented several expeditions by Greenpeace to the Brazilian Amazon, the Arctic, the Southern Oceans and the Patagonian Ice Fields, among many others. In 2006, Daniel received awards from the World Press Photo (WPP) and China International Press Photo contests for his work on drought in the Amazon. In 2007, he won again in the WPP for photos of the Amazon. In 2008, Daniel was awarded the inaugural "Global Vision Award" from the Pictures of the Year International contest for work in the Ross Sea and the Amazon. He also won in the NPPA BOP contest and the LUCIE awards. Daniel was awarded the Prince's Rainforest Project given via the Sony World Photography Awards in April 2009. The award, granted by Prince Charles, sent Daniel for three months to the Congo, Amazon and Indonesian rainforests to create photos for a book, website and traveling exhibition about the perilous fate that the world's rainforests face. Daniel is a fellow of the prestigious International League of Conservation Photographers.
Artist: Phil Borges
Donor: Malcolm Edwards
Title: Palden, #4 of a limited edition of 40, Retail Value $2,500
Medium: Toned silver gelatin print
Size: Shadow box framed at 23" x27"
Website: www.philborges.com
For over 25 years Phil Borges has been visiting and documenting indigenous and tribal cultures around the world. His award winning books have been published in four languages and his photographs have been collected and exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide.