Dana Popa - After the New Man

2 Dana Popa ~ After the New Man 26 April – 26 May 2012

All prints are C-types, produced in a limited edition and signed by the artist.

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2 Artist’s Statement In After the New Man, Dana Popa revisits her homeland, Romania, and the generation who were born just before or after the fall of the communist regime. This body of work is an intimate portrayal of youth and the fleeting memories of a bygone era that still permeate the individuals and landscape.

Traces of Popa’s own childhood pervade not only through the blocks of flats and the cars from another era, but in the mindsets of old and young. This legacy of the recent past and the ubiquitous Western-inspired ideals of lifestyle and consumerism construct a portrait of a displaced generation, struggling to reconcile their place in history. After the New Man brings together Popa’s own work with her old family photographs and remnants from the past.

About Dana Popa Popa (b. 1977) studied a Masters degree in Documentary Photography at the London College of Communication. Her work focuses on contemporary social issues with a particular emphasis on human rights. ‘Not Natasha’ was Popa’s first major body of work, which looked at the effects of sex trafficking on girls and families in The Republic of Moldova who had firsthand experience of it. The project has been exhibited around the UK, Europe and US and was also published as a book (Autograph ABP, 2009). Popa is based in London.

Awards and Collections Dana Popa’s photographs have been acquired and are held in the permanent collections of: Musee de l’Elysee, Switzerland; Portland Art Museum, USA; Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan.

First Prize Project Competition, Center Awards 2010, Santa Fe, New Mexico Jerwood Award 2007, UK Jury Prize Days Japan International Photojournalism Awards 2007 Nominated for Deutsche Borse Photography Prize, 2010 Finalist in BJP Project Assistance Award, 2010 Solo Exhibitions Blue Sky Portland Oregon, USA, Sept 2011, ICI Dublin, Ireland, August 2011

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2 Impressions Gallery, Bradford, UK, 2010 RCI Paris, France, November December 2011 Photofusion Gallery, London, UK, 2009 Amnesty International, London, UK, 2009 Group Exhibitions 18th Noorderlicht International Photofestival Metropolis, NL, 2011 International Disciveries III, Fotofest Houston USA, 2011 Journée Photographiques de Bienne Bieler Fototage, Switzerland, 2010 Center Project Competition Exhibit, Zane Bennet, Santa Fe New Mexico, 2010 Stigmates, Musee International de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant Rouge, Geneve, 2009 15th Noorderlicht International Photofestival, Beyond Walls Eastern Europe after 1989, at Leeuwarden, NL, 2008 Moving Walls 14, Open Society Institute, New York, 2008 Living Together, British Council, Belfast, 2008 -09 Menotrentuno 2008, Su Palatu, Sardinia, 2008 Teen City at Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, 2008 Young Portfolio 2007, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Tokyo, 2008 Home, The Elephant and Castle, London College of Communication, London, 2008 Jerwood Award Exhibit, Jerwood Gallery, London, 2007 Eye on the Elephant, Cuming Museum, London 2007 Photomeetings, Galerie-Claire Fontaine, Luxembourg, 2007 MA Documentary Photography and Photojournalism Show, London College of Communication, London 2006 Elefest, The Elephant and Castle Subway, London 2006

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2 Publications and Books Not Natasha, published by Autograph ABP, London, 2009 Afterwards written and curated by Nathalie Herschfreoder, Thames & Hudson, London & Paris 2011 East Book, (2008), edited by Regina Maria Anzenberger and Reiner Riedler, moser verlag GmbH, M端nchen.

Home, Elephant and Castle, (2008), edited by Sutherland, P., London College of Communication, London, featured with Landmarks, 6 fold out pages.

Periodical publications include: Foam, Foto8 Magazine, British Journal of Photography, Portfolio Magazine, Next Level, D: La Repubblica delle Donne, Fader, Vrij Nederland, KK Magazine, Days Japan, Amnesty International USA, Ogoniok, and many others.

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