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Artist: Tasja Keetman |
| Exhibition: Personal Space |
| Date: June 16 2004 - July 31 2004 |
Curator: Lea Rekow
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Bio:
Photographer Tasja Keetman is recognized and appreciated for the fierce visual force, supreme technical agility and vigorous physical energy with which she shapes images of people and things. She harnesses her photographic subjects with her seeing, at once inviting equilibrium to the discordant while compelling the static into orbit.
Longitude, a series of her feet photographed around the world was recently published by Felix Schoeler.
Keetman was raised to shape her world through a camera's viewfinder by her father, Herr Jan Keetman, one of Germany's most recognized editorial and advertising photographers. As a young adult, she spent much of her time in the darkroom of her uncle, Peter Keetman, the eminent German art photographer, whose images can be found in museums and notable collections worldwide. Ms Keetman considers her uncle as a strong influence amongst others that helped develop her individual style of concept, composition and technique.
Keetman's dynamic photographic style and exuberant personal energy have also made her a much sought after photographer in New York City's avant-garde performance arena. There, she has worked on dozens of projects as both collaborator and documenter with acclaimed experimental music, theater and dance performance companies, including J Mandle Performance, Wax Factory and XØ Projects Inc. Additionaly, Keetman freelances for New York Reporters, a highly specialized press agency producing exclusive news for the German speaking market. Concurrent with her own projects, Keetman has been working with fashion photographer Albert Watson. She has lead countless international photo campaigns, has photographed innumerable high-profile personalities, and has worked on various short films and commercials with Watson.
Tasja Keetman currently lives and works in New York City.
The series at Gigantic Artspace won the kodak prize.
www.xoprojects.com/tk.html
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