Portrait by NAFISAH CRUMITY
Fly On The Wall, A Dead New York
For starters the photos displayed are not just party photos or a night out. This work spans over several months of not just observing, but entering each individual's space and interacting off emotions.
Earlier in the year I was unstable with my emotions and poisoned by my thoughts. I deliberately ignored and attempted to run away from my problems and found myself in Bars, drowning myself within alcohol every weekend felt like my best and only coping mechanism. Had this sense of freedom from myself and continued this cycle for a period of time. And over time instead of running away ignoring my thoughts and emotions it made a picture more vivid. Instead of just being in “my moment”
I noticed other people’s moments as-well. When I realized this I stayed. This choice seemed freeing in the beginning but in the end, it unraveled in ways I couldn't possibly imagine. My body of work shows an individual's choice of compensation (Drinking, Smoking, Flirting, laughing, crying etc.) whether they (or myself) dance around the fact or even through it, we are poisoned by are own thoughts and that every cause truly has an effect on what we do next. And based on however I was feeling I would run into them by chance.
There’s several variables that we can potentially discuss from a photographic standpoint to the physiological aspect of it all. I’ve allowed my heart to see what my eyes can’t and at the end of it I’ve found an escape through the medium of photography.
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About Cesar
Cesar Cordone is a New York Candid based photographer. Whether it's in Photojournalism/Documentary or Fine Art his work reflects his perception towards others and that each moment is taken for granted, until it becomes a memory. Within his work he tries to state both denotative and connotative aspects of individuals. Within photography there's a stigma that everything needs to be pleasing to the eyes and so many cater to that. On the other hand the artist looks to go in a different direction and makes images for the brain. Images that ask questions and have a coherence within his photographic taste. It's this factor that benefits the photographer's perception and keeps him content, but never satisfied and makes him continue to roam around the streets of New York. His work has been displayed at the Museum of F.I.T “Unseen Memory” and at The IW Gallery “Bridge 2022 Final Show” Exhibition’s. He is currently attending The Fashion Institute of Technology pursuing his Bachelors in Fine Art in Photography.
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