“Alternate Perspectives,” a photography exhibition opening Wednesday, July 25, 2012, from 7:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. at Kristen Farrell in New York, will feature the dramatic, uniquely circular panoramic landscape images of award-winning filmmaker and photographer Randy Scott Slavin. The large-scale landscapes were taken around the United States ranging from Big Sur to the New York City skyline. The photographs are noted for their 360-degree circular view, creating a visually stunning and surreal take on familiar landscapes.
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“Alternate Perspectives,” a photography exhibition opening Wednesday, July 25, 2012, from 7:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. at Kristen Farrell in New York, will feature the dramatic, uniquely circular panoramic landscape images of award-winning filmmaker and photographer Randy Scott Slavin. The large-scale landscapes were taken around the United States ranging from Big Sur to the New York City skyline. The photographs are noted for their 360-degree circular view, creating a visually stunning and surreal take on familiar landscapes.
Having spent years as a commercial and music video director, Slavin’s “Alternate Perspectives” series was recently discovered by the media and new collectors, one of whom, celebrity jewelry designer and goldsmith Kristen Farrell, invited Slavin to create a collaborative exhibition in her namesake Soho gallery setting. The two New York-based artists share a visual language, which has been described similarly as surrealist, alchemical, otherworldly and futuristic.
Slavin’s circular panoramic digital technique is a way of seeing only made possible through digital methods and is an orientation he masterfully devised after much experimentation. The time required to capture the images and then create the photographs, which can consist of hundreds of photos “stitched” together to create a single 360-degree image, matches the labor-intensive, artisan approach of Farrell’s traditional goldsmithing. For the opening, the jeweler will match one of her designs to each of Slavin’s pieces.
