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COLBY KATZ
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Born in our nation's capital to a clan of Russian-Romanians, Colby Katz moved to South Florida at a young age and admits growing up here "wasn't great.I got kicked out of five different high schools."At 16, Colby was "emancipated from Broward County" and let loose on the streets of New York, where she later enrolled in NYU's celebrated Tisch School of the Arts and earned a BFA in photography.
Although she insists that she has no famous relatives, the more infamous fruit in her family tree includes "a dwarf grandmother, a stripteasing aunt and an uncle rumored to be a swinger."It's no surprise they inspired her choices in subject matter.Colby's distinctive work documents subcultures by humanizing them, inviting us into worlds we may have heard about but never understood.Her eerie portraits provide microcosms of her varied subjects, which range from side-show freaks and quirky nudists to committed conventioneers and teenage rabbit hunters.
In 2003, Colby was selected to be in the book 25 Under 25, a Duke University publication showcasing the talent of the country's most promising photographers.A few years later, the industry bible Photo District News chose her from among thousands as one of its top emerging photographers of 2005.The following year, Canada's Magenta Foundation, a pioneering charitable-arts publishing house, bestowed on her the same honor.
As a shutterbug for hire, Colby has worked for Time, Newsweek and ESPN.Her photographs have been exhibited in galleries that span the globe, from the Foam Fotografiemuseum in Amsterdam and London's National Portrait Gallery to the A.I.R. Gallery in New York, Toronto's Lennox Contemporary and the Miami Art Museum.
Today Colby is finishing up her latest series, a collection of haunting portraits documenting the odd and touching world of child beauty pageants.She could never imagine herself doing anything else, and hopes one day to work with a filmmaker to further delve into the shadowy lives of her fascinating subjects.
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