laharypittman
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Bio
Lahary Pittman is a writer & visual artist working in film/video, photography and pastels. His photographic body of work spans the globe from Manhattan's Lower East Side to the south of France and Belgium, and his films and photographs have been screened and exhibited worldwide including the Netherlands, Britain, France, Australia and New York.
He has been recently curated into a group show at the College of Saint Elizabeth in Morristown, NJ (June 23-Sept 10 2011) with silver gelatin prints depicting IceFalls and gaseous mists in the Catskill mountains. Works from his “Shifting Boundaries” series from Manhattan’s Lower East Side were curated for an
exhibition at London’s This Is Not A Gateway festival in October 2010.
In the summer of 2010 the artist presented a minimalist single channel video entitled Battle of The Bees in the Virion video festival in Brisbane, Australia and in September of 2010 he was announced as winner of the 2010 Exposé Commission for the purpose of photographing the 14th century medieval city of Bruges, Belgium which followed an .
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In 2008 Lahary was honored by the Delaware Art Museum as a multiple category winner in their 'Gordon Parks Arts Competition'. He won the jury prize for 'Best In Show' in the film category for his film Rhythm and Pain and was also a jury winner in the photography category for his gelatin silver print Succos on the Bowery. In 2007-2008 he was selected as the Artist-In-Residence for black & white darkroom photography at New York’s Henry Street Settlement / Abron’s Art Center. His residency series, entitled “The Shifting Boundaries and Culture of Manhattan’s Lower East Side”, received numerous awards including an Abron’s Art Center grant made possible by the Andy Warhol Foundation, as well as a grant made possible with public funds from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Manhattan Community Arts Fund and support by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
He served as a co-director for the international short “Julie 9”, which screened at the Rotterdam Film Festival, and subsequently produced, shot and edited the documentary film “Rhythm and Pain” concerning a cross-cultural drummer and the American healthcare dilemma. He is a published photographer with works at auction, in public & private collections and is listed on ArtNet and in the ArtFact.com auction database.
Two of his video-works are in the permanent collection of MONA, (Museum of New Art) Pontiac, Michigan and his large format and still life photographs are in the collections of the Sullivan County Museum and Newburgh Historical Society. His experience in cinema began as a screenwriting intern on