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New York transplant displays work

“Untitled (Fifth Avenue, 2001)” by Steve Wiley

“Untitled (Fifth Avenue, 2001)” by Steve Wiley is on display at Steve Wiley Photography through July 25.

By Hannah Pittard
Published: Friday, June 20, 2003

Steve Wiley may not live in New York anymore, but he certainly hasn’t left the city behind. When he and his wife, SCAD art history professor Gabriela Jasin, moved to Savannah in August 2002, Wiley made sure to bring the series of New York-based photographs he’d been working on since August 2001.

“The photographs are from my last year living in New York City,” he said. “I began photographing … as I walked though the city, conducting my daily business.” Wiley said he took his cue from Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama, frequently keeping a camera strapped to his hand and taking photographs without stopping. “I shot both color and black and white — the color generally reserved for quieter, more studied compositions,” he said. “The resulting images are a collection of glimpses and observation about the lonely joys of the city.”

Although Wiley shoots in both color and black and white, the images on display at Steve Wiley Photography are exclusively black and white and are selections from a solo exhibition that will take place next year at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Bucaramanga, Colombia. The Museo de Arte has asked Wiley to visit Bucaramanga and photograph their city for an exhibition that will run concurrently with the New York exhibition. “I’m also looking for other venues in Latin and South America, maybe something closer to home,” he said.

Shortly after moving to Savannah, Wiley established Steve Wiley Photography, 2424 DeSoto St. “I needed to find a studio/darkroom to work in, and found a great space at Starland,” he said. “The owners requested that I have a retail aspect to the business so I decided to divide the space in half and install a gallery. The inaugural exhibition was a series of peep show entrances that I had shot in Paris in 1998-1999. The next two shows were of work by New York photographers Jay Strauss and Michael Galinsky.”

Wiley, who has done everything from manage a one-hour photo lab to installing Robert Frank and Nan Goldin’s exhibition at the Whitney Museum, to working as Richard Avedon’s assistant to teaching at The International Center of Photography, offered a few words of advice to aspiring photographers. “Get in the habit of photographing every day, even if it’s just mentally composing images in front of you. Also, learn how to talk about and how to promote your work.”

“Steve Wiley” is on display at Steve Wiley Photography, 2424 DeSoto St., through July 25.