Enlarge image "East-river Park", 96"x40", C-print, diasec (© Joergen Geerds) The German Consulate General Recommends:

Geerds highlights here not a dissociating modern city, but its underlying structures and spaces, which- temporarily freed of people by the power of the camera- allow for unity, for community. Geerds’s alchemy shows us that the city is not so much a succession of insides and outsides as it is a plastic network of „other sides.”

His attention to the elemental is what makes Geerds’s images so arresting: Are these photographs dark comments on a New York underneath, around, and above us all the time, hiding from us, shaping our lives?

Regardless of how we interpret or are questioned by Geerds’s many-sided New York, we can’t help but look at it, and look again.

Joergen Geerds was born in Oberstreu, Germany, in 1969. He studied photography and design under Ernst Weckert and Nicolai Sarafov at the University for Applied Science, Würzburg. Since 2000 he has resided in in Astoria, New York. Inspired by the grandeur and grime of New York City, Geerds branched into panoramic photography in 2006 after a successful career as an art director in the advertising world.

Over the years, Geerds has continually refined his love of wide-angle photography. Finding the uncropped cityscapes revealed by his flattened photographs to be unique in the market, Geerds was led to develop his own distinct style- large-scale, hyper-wide night panoramas of New York City.

Location and time:
532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel
532 West 25th Street
New York, NY 10001

The exhibition will be on view from January 26 through February 25, 2012.
You are cordially invited to the opening reception on Thursday, January 26 2012 from 6 – 8 p.m.