Artist Statement
When I was 12 years old my father told me that I had an older brother named James, who lived in Australia.
James was the product of a relationship my father had had with an English woman named Linda, who subsequently moved to Australia and started a family.
Unfortunately I never had the chance to meet James. He committed suicide in October 1996.
Feeling a need to learn more about James, I used the Tierney Fellowship to travel across Australia in search of James. I wanted to better understand who I'd been mourning all these years. Through the help of his family I was able to follow the steps and echos of my brother whom I will never meet.
Ayala Gazit
Born in Israel 1984
Living and working in New York
Education
2005-2009 BFA in photography, The School of Visual Arts, New York.
2002-2004 Served in the Israeli Defense Force as a photographer in the Intelligence.
2000-2002 Dada School for Photography, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Awards
Photo Lucida Critical Mass Finalist 2011
Honorable Mention- CENTER project competition, 2011
Honorable Mention - Blurb Book Now Award 2010
Photo Lucida Critical Mass Finalist 2010
Honorable Mention - International Photography Award 2010
The Tierney Fellowship 2009
Honorable Mention - International Photography Award 2009
Alumni Grant Award SVA 2009
IED Venice Biennale award 2009
Exhibitions
Solo
Nov.-Dec. 2010 SVA Gallery Space- "Was it a dream"
Feb.- Mer. 2009 SVA Gallery Space - "You Don't Say"
Nov. - Dec. 2008 SVA Gallery Space - "New Work"
Aug. - Sep 2004 Jabo Gallery - Tel Aviv
Group
Jun.2012 - 6th Borough - Sovereign nation- Poughkeepsie, NY.
Apr. 2012 - Upstate Salon - Sovereign nation- Poughkeepsie, NY.
Nov. 2011 -Sovereign nation exposition - Wix Lounge NYC
July 2010 - "In leaves no step had trodden black" - Visual Arts Gallery
May 2010 - The New York Photo Festival - Tierney Fellowship Exhibition.
July 2009- New Israeli Artists - 8 Gallery Tel-Aviv Israel
Apr. 2009 - Visual Arts Gallery - "Mentor Show"
Dec. 2006 - B1 Gallery NYC- "Dark Matter"
Publications
Mar. 2012 - Amelie G style magazine - Darrell Hammond- New Orleans issue
Dec. 2011 - Dr. Phil - Darrell Hammond - CBS
Dec. 2011 - Fox and Friends - Darrell Hammond - Fox News
Nov. 2011- “God if you’re not up there I’m F*cked” - Darrell Hammond- Harper Collins
May 2011 - Hamptons Magazine - Tru starring Darrell Hammond
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