Engine Artist Brent Lewin has been attracting a lot of attention lately.
Brent has recently been recognized as one of Photo District News (PDN)'s top 30 new and emergent photographers to watch for 2010 and chosen as a winner in the 2010 applied arts photography and illustration awards in the 'limited edition gallery prints' category for his Want Not Waste Not series.
During CONTACT we will show Brent's series entitled The Elephant in the Room.
The series explores the plight of wild elephants in Bangkok, Thailand as they "vie aimlessly for space in the congested streets" brought in by 'handlers' as a means for panhandling.
Brent explores how the revered, honourable and majestic image of the elephant has come to "represent the failures and inequity of the country's economic development."
Brent Lewin attended the University of Toronto and has photographed for such publications as National Geographic, The New York Times, Discovery Channel Magazine and The Toronto Star.
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