Reservoir: Loneliness, Well-Being and Photography, Half 2

Reservoir Artist Statement:
Loneliness can typically really feel like a personal burden, however via this collection of photographic work, I discover its intimate paradox: that vulnerability, when shared, can change into a supply of connection. The ensuing photos are usually not merely a report of my inventive apply, residing centrally remoted in Vermont, however an act of providing these deeply private experiences to a wider neighborhood. The transformative energy of this undertaking turned obvious via the dialogue with a various group of ladies mentored in a digital house, serving as its “counterforce.” The exchanges one way or the other disarmed the loneliness by reframing non-public emotions right into a collective dialog. This course of remodeled the passive expertise of loneliness into an lively seek for connection and understanding.

Cathy Cone is a photographer, painter and printmaker. Cathy obtained her coaching at Ohio University, Vermont Studio Center. She obtained her MFA on the Maine Media College the place she served as a mentor and visitor college. Some of her exhibitions embody Sewanee: University of the South, Weisman Art Museum, University of Alabama, DeCordova Museum, Griffin Museum of Photography, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center and the Vermont Center for Photography. Her works are within the assortment of IBM, Hallmark Fine Art Collections, American Express, Beekman a Thompson Hotel, New York and lots of non-public collections. Cathy along with her husband, grasp printer Jon Cone, based Cone Editions Press in 1980 in Port Chester, NY as a collaborative printmaking workshop. Cone Editions Press is now situated in East Topsham, Vermont.
Instagram:  @cathy_ cone

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On February 2025, the Los Angeles Center of Photography initiated a brand new and revolutionary photographic generator: Reservoir: Loneliness, Well-Being and Photography, designed to create a shared repository of responses to the worldwide loneliness disaster via visible storytelling. It was concepted and developed by Jennifer Pritchard, and Dr. Rotem Rozental (Executive Director of LACP and Chief Curator @rotroz). The lead to an in depth, immersive exhibition and catalog. Opening on January twenty ninth on the the Los Angeles Center of Photography, from 6 – 8pm, the exhibition will function a group of photographic and video responses to Loneliness created by over 40 artists over the past 9 months. Prior to the opening there shall be a ticketed lecture with Dr. Jeremy Nobel,|M.D.,N.P.H. on “Loneliness as a Growing Crisis: How the Arts Can Help” from 3:30 – 5pm.

As an educator, it was a compelling expertise to information a bunch of photographers in making work a couple of topic that was not essentially on the forefront of their inventive apply. My cohort was composed of ten exceptional artists from throughout the United States and Brazil, whose work I’m sharing at the moment: Lynne Breitfeller (NJ), ), Julia Buteux (RI), Cathy Cone (VT), Nancy Farese (CA), Bootsy Holler (CA), Rohina Hoffman (CA), Sandra Klein (CA), Ana Leal (Brazil),  Lisa McCord (CA), and  Donna Tramatozzi (MA).

Each artist created deeply private and distinctive work rooted in their very own experiences of loneliness: the loneliness of feeling othered, of caregiving, of psychological sickness, and of mortality. Some of the tasks additionally level towards potential antidotes: the invention of third areas, moments of connection, and time spent in nature.

Over the course of this system, the group attended lectures on loneliness, met usually as a cohort, and labored with me individually, permitting concepts to evolve via each collective dialogue and personal reflection.

As Cathy Cone acknowledged in regards to the Reservoir expertise: The exchanges one way or the other disarmed the loneliness by reframing non-public emotions right into a collective dialog. This course of remodeled the passive expertise of loneliness into an lively seek for connection and understanding, the expertise was cathartic.

LISA McCORD

Reservoir Artist Statement:
This work paperwork each my problem with psychological well being, and the therapeutic that led to my most genuine self, and residential inside.

Lisa McCord is a superb artwork documentary photographer from the Arkansas Delta. Her inventive apply explores ideas of storytelling, reminiscence, and the passage of time.
Instagram: @lisamccord

NANCY FARESE

Reservoir Artist Statement:
This audio visible piece work explores “3rd Places”—the cafés, parks, libraries, and on a regular basis gathering spots that exist past house and work, the place connection occurs naturally. These locations act as social glue, however many are disappearing as screens, privatization, and post-COVID life push us towards on-line areas as an alternative. For many individuals, the web has quietly change into their third place. The Archive of third Places is each a report and an invite: these areas nonetheless exist, throughout us, ready for you.

Nancy Farese is a documentary photographer and social entrepreneur exploring how visible storytelling drives cultural and social change. My work ranges from world humanitarian points, as lined in a 2021 e book Potential Space; a Serious Look at Children’s Play, to deeply private tasks, as offered in a 2024 e book, I Still Speak Southern in My Head, analyzing id and reminiscence within the American South. Through founding PhotoPhilanthropy and CatchLight, I’ve constructed platforms that use visible media as a software for affect. She particularly fascinated about how photos affect public dialogue and join us throughout variations.
Instagram @nancyfarese

DONNA TRAMONTOZZI

Reservoir Artist Statement:

In moments of loneliness, we frequently flip to nature for solace. Nature presents us a reminder that we’re half of an entire—that we’re not alone, however linked to nature’s plenitude. Lean into pure locations and they’ll join you with magnificence, with life, and with belonging.

Visual artist Donna Tramontozzi’s apply explores the profound relationship between nature and human beings. Probing into the residing world by manipulating its patterns, colours and shapes, she uncovers its many aspects and dimensions and factors to the solace and therapeutic that lies on the coronary heart of that relationship.

BOOTSY HOLLER

Reservoir Artist Statement:

Death, dying, and grief are complicated, isolating experiences that may be troublesome to navigate,

typically leaving one confronting profound loneliness.

Grief feels heavy, complicated, and overwhelming;

its presence is a silent companion that’s laborious to articulate.

It arrives in unpredictable waves, leaving you stranded in a sea of emotions.

Yet, once I sit with my grief and specific it via artwork, my confusion finds each launch and which means in a tangible type.

Bootsy Holler is a Los Angeles-based artist identified for her multifaceted abilities, which embody pictures, sculpture, and bookmaking, with a concentrate on household, secrets and techniques, and hidden feelings.

Instagram: @@bootsyholler   

ROHINA HOFFMAN                           

Reservoir Artist Statement:

A Cartography of Loneliness

This undertaking compiles 384 colours extracted from artworks by artists throughout twelve world areas, constructing a chromatic archive of how loneliness and longing are rendered in visible tradition. Presented as a diptych of grid and spectrum, the work strikes from classification to continuity, tracing solitude as each deeply private and quietly shared.

Rohina Hoffman is an Indian-born American artist whose work explores id, belonging, and the emotional landscapes of house and the feminine expertise. After a profession in medical neurology, she now devotes herself absolutely to pictures, bringing a mix of scientific rigor and poetic sensitivity to her apply. She relies in California.

Instagram: @rohinaphoto

LYNNE BREITFELLER

Reservoir Artist Statement:

Today is Yesterday and Tomorrow examines my expertise as a caregiver to my mother and father, each recognized with dementia. The work displays the profound challenges and quiet rewards of caregiving. Over time, one’s sense of self can blur within the fixed tending to a different’s wants, typically bringing isolation.

Being so near my mother and father of their later years, I’ve come to see getting old with higher acceptance and to acknowledge the endurance of their shared life and love regardless of cognitive decline. The work serves as a reminder that love persists past reminiscence loss, and a name to be current at the same time as every part appears to be vanishing.

Lynne Breitfeller is a New Jersey–primarily based photographer. Human relationships, reminiscence and loss, transience, and are recurrent themes in her work.

Instagram: @lynnebreitfellerphoto

ANA LEAL

Reservoir Artist Statement:

To Whom It May Concern and It’s Up To You emerge from nameless responses to the query, “If loneliness were a companion, what would you tell it?” Collected via a globally shared public type, these voices reveal a large emotional spectrum, from compassion and introspection to resistance and battle.

To Whom It May Concern unfolds as a contemplative video combining imagery, minimalist music, and spoken fragments, whereas It’s Up To You takes the type of a triptych that visually phases acceptance, rejection, and the strain between them.

Together, the works invite loneliness to be witnessed and inhabited quite than resolved.

Ana Leal (Recife, 1969) is a visible artist primarily based in São Paulo, with an MFA in Visual Arts from Miami International University of Art & Design and a level in Photography from Escola Panamericana de Arte e Design. Her work explores time, impermanence, reminiscence, and silence via delicate photos that handle absence, fragility, and the almost invisible in nature and on a regular basis life. While rooted in pictures, her apply extends to video, set up, objects, monotype, embroidery, and watercolor, transferring between documentary and abstraction. She has exhibited internationally, obtained awards such because the TIFA Gold Award and the Julia Margaret Cameron Award, and works as South America editor for Lenscratch.

Instagram: @analealphoto

JULIA BUTEUX

Reservoir Artist Statement:

Have We Said Hello is a meditation on loneliness, belonging, and the phantasm of separation. Grounded in analysis on the 4 types of loneliness—emotional, social, situational, and continual—the work displays on how know-how, meant to attach us, typically deepens the divide, decreasing id to a floor formed by comparability and judgment. Social media profile images gathered worldwide are stripped of id and printed on sheer cloth panels, the place faint outlines and shifting kinds create an internet that strikes as guests move via, accompanied by transient phrases that remind us what it feels wish to be seen and acknowledged. Whether the picture belonged to a tech government or somebody unhoused, throughout nations and incomes, the work reveals that when ego and judgment fall away, we rediscover ourselves inside a residing, invisible internet of humanity to which we already belong.

Julia Averett Buteux is a Rhode Island–primarily based photographer whose work focuses on notion and human habits. Trained as an architect, she brings a structural strategy to image-making, utilizing layered imagery and digital processes. She lives and works in Westerly, Rhode Island

Instagram: @jabuteuxphotography

SANDRA KLEIN

Reservoir Artist Statement:

Although my reminiscence is of being a cheerful, inventive little one, loving house life, I’ve additionally felt like an unwelcome foreigner within the outdoors world.  My panorama imagery portrays my mindfulness and calm within the pure world, whereas my self-portraiture is commonly an try to know and bridge that hole I sense between myself and humanity. 

Sandra Klein is an artist whose photos, whether or not captured with a digicam or composited, painting a layered world which, although full of anxiousness and trauma, nonetheless is wealthy with pleasure.  She at the moment stitches and collages onto her layered images. Her photos have been proven all through the United States and overseas and he or she is represented by Photographic Gallery SMA in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and Walker Fine Art Gallery in Denver, Colorado.

Instagram: @sandra_klein_photography