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Frank Callaghan (b.1980)

Frank Callaghan (b.1980) Banaue Houses Manila-based Filipino-British artist Frank Callaghan captures the urban Filipino landscape with long exposures, imbuing these scenes with an eerie, atmospheric quality. Callaghan’s photographs omit human figures, focusing on the spaces between buildings or archipelagos of light on building surfaces. His photographs create sharp distinctions between colors and lines, conversely blurring them, achieving a powerfully resonant quality in his images. Callaghan’s Banaue Houses capture the ramshackle housing stacked atop one another in a nondescript area, revealing the sublime in the everyday. The photographs record the interplay of light, shadow, color, and space as framed through a camera lens, and composed on the rickety foundations of the houses. Biography: Frank Callaghan (b. 1980, England) is a Manila-based artist working with photographer. He was born in England, but grew up in Baguio City. He pursued a degree in Economics at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania before becoming a full-time photographer. He first exhibited his work at the age of 21 in Philadelphia. In 2010, he was shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Award for his work Shattered States and then again in 2011, for Anatomy of Autonomy. In 2015, he won the Ateneo Art Award for his show Dead Ends at Silverlens. His recent group exhibitions include Curated , Ayala Museum, Makati City, Philippines (2017); Ley Hunting, Gillman Barracks, Singapore (2013), first exhibited in Silverlens, Makati City, Philippines in 2012; The Hope & The Dream in Filipino: Contemporary Photography from the Philippines, presented by The Photographic Society of Japan and Tokyo Museum of Photography (2012); GRID 2012: Bi-annual International Photography Festival, SVB Bank, Van Heuven Goedhartlaan 1, Amstelveen, The Netherlands (2012); Confessions of a Sinner, Manila Contemporary, Makati City, Philippines (2011); Reaction Shots, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Philippines (2010); CUT2010: New Photography from Southeast Asia: Parallel Universe, VWFA, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; VWFA, Singapore; Manila Contemporary, Makati CIty, Philippines; Tembi Contemporary, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2010). His previous solo exhibitions include Search/Light, Silverlens Gallery, Makati City, Philippines (2017); his award-winning show Deadends, Silverlens Gallery, Makati City, Philippines (2014); Frank Callaghan, Silverlens, Gillman Barracks, Singapore (2012); Moonshine Baseline, Silverlens Gallery, Makati City, Philippines (2011); River of Our Dreams, Manila Contemporary, Makati City, Philippines (2010); Dwelling, Silverlens Gallery, Makati City, Philippines (2009). References: http://www.frankcallaghan.com/ http://silverlensgalleries.com/artists/frank-callaghan 2012 Inkjet print 13” x 20” (34 cm x 51 cm)