George Byrne Named Minimalist Photographer of the Year

 

Los Angeles-based Australian photographer, George Byrne has been named Minimalist Photographer of the Year, for his series, Exit Vision, in the Minimalist Photography Awards' 2nd Edition. Byrne placed third in the 1st Edition (2019) in the Fine Art category for his series, Post Truth.

 

The Minimalist Photography Awards "aims to recognize, reward and expose talented photographers all around the world and introduce them to the professional photography industry." 

George Byrne is an internationally-recognized photographer based in Los Angeles. Byrne creates large-scale photographs that depict architectural surfaces and landscapes as painterly abstractions. Borrowing from the clean, vivid clarity of modernist painting, he also references the New Topographics photography movement via a subject matter firmly entrenched in the urban every day.

 

Byrne started photographing Los Angeles with a medium format camera in 2010. Byrne’s close-crop photos, often taken from the middle of the street, show careful attention to the geometric fragments of his urban surroundings revealed in subtle line and unexpected shadow which cut across pastel walled surfaces, and divide soft sky from gritty stucco, plastic and concrete. Byrne’s work encapsulates not only the spirit of his adopted city’s unique and diverse cityscape but an aesthetic sensibility that has come to be ubiquitous with our globalized visual culture influenced by equal parts art history and Instagram.

George Byrne was born in Sydney, Australia in 1976 and graduated from Sydney College of the Arts in 2001. He has exhibited internationally in Italy, India, Australia, Los Angeles and New York. In 2010, Byrne relocated to Los Angeles, California where he continues to live and work today.

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