Jeff Phillips
& Marzena Abrahamik: Projection Installations

Jeff Phillips & Marzena Abrahamik: Projection Installations

Jeff Phillips is a Chicago-based photographic artist who has been passionate about photography for more than 35 years. He serves as a member of the board of directors of Filter Photo, and for the past nine years has helped produce the annual Filter Photo Festival. His photographs have been exhibited and published internationally through a variety of media channels including books, newspapers, and magazines. Phillips has presented and lectured about his work at South by Southwest (SXSW), Society for Photographic Education (SPE), ASMP Midwest, and other venues including Pecha Kucha in Chicago and at Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis. Phillips is the creator of Lost and Found: The Search for Harry and Edna (harryandedna.com), a vernacular photography and social media experiment that became a traveling exhibition and subsequently received international media attention for its content and production.

http://www.jeffphillips.me/

I am an American artist, driven by photography’s ability to change our visual sensibility. I am  visually inspired by personal histories, attachments to unachievable and necessary for survival fantasies, to further investigate communal formations and transformations. I work through photographic series where images are anchored in historical and autobiographical events. My cultural heritage informs me as an artist and educator, and my biography is a motivating resource that provides insight and empathy to otherwise abstracted issues. I was born in Poland, grew up in Greece and for the past ten years, I have been working as a professional artist and educator in Chicago, IL.

http://www.marzena-abrahamik.com