Artist Statement
Pedro Isztin’s work is a testament to the human spirit, where external and internal borders are crossed and experiences shared. “If analysis with a camera lens is also an analysis of the human spirit, Pedro Isztin has succeeded in drawing, with technique and originality, the profile of his subjects’ souls.” (Daniela Mascella, Image Inside. Rome, Italy, June/July 1993).


Born in 1964 to a Colombian mother and Hungarian father, Isztin lives in Ottawa, Canada. The originality of Pedro’s photographic work reflects the richness of his diverse heritage through which he explores and reveals. Portraits, nudes and environmental landscapes lend themselves to the universal truths Pedro uncovers and discovers, with diversity and depth as continuous themes in his work.

 

 

Choosing subjects from around the world, Isztin’s work portrays a sympathetic connection to nature and humanity. His intimate portraits reveal landscapes with “spirit” and “human nature that is, wherever you may find it, by definition universal.”*

Pedro’s photographs reflect the richness of his diverse heritage. Born in 1964 to a Colombian mother and Hungarian father, Isztin lives in Ottawa, Canada. His recent work explores monolithic structures, (in the series Remains), inner life and outer world, (the installation Sami), the subtlety of a human gesture, (Nuance), and studies of land and humankind’s influence on nature (in The River, Study of Structure and Form, and The Glade,).

The River debuted at Ottawa’s City Hall Gallery, in the Fall of 2012 in conjunction with Ottawa’s Photography Festival X and Nuit Blanche. In 2016, the book “The River” will be released, showcasing the series in it’s entirety.

Pedro has received various awards to support the creation of his projects, including an Ontario Arts Council Award, 2006, and a Canada Council For the Arts: Photography Project Grant, 1999. Isztin’s work has been exhibited internationally and featured in photography books, Full of Grace, 2006, New York, and magazines such as Contact Sheet, #148, 2008, Syracuse, NY, Private, #37, 2007, Italy, and Ottawa’s Guerilla, #17, Vol 5, 2008. His work is represented by Wallack Galleries and is also in the permanent collection of the Canada Council Art Bank and The City of Ottawa’s Fine Art collection.

Visit www.pedroisztinfoto.com to view Pedro’s photography.

* Line Dezainde, Pedro Isztin: L’insatiable quête du destin, trans. Lisa Poushinsky, Voir.ca, #21, Décembre 2006. “…où qu’il soit, la nature humaine étant par définition universelle.”

 

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