Amy Regalia
Amy Regalia · Source: New York Artists Circle · Rights retained by the original rights holders
- Medium
- Paper
- Based in
- New Rochelle, NY
- Practice
- Photography
Amy Regalia is a photographer who works with a large-format view camera and a digital medium format camera. She is interested in the quieter details of the urban landscape. After graduating from California College of the… Full biography
Biography
Amy Regalia is a photographer who works with a large-format view camera and a digital medium format camera. She is interested in the quieter details of the urban landscape. After graduating from California College of the Arts and working in photo conservation for clients such as the estate of Diane Arbus, Richard Misrach, and Robert Adams, she began exploring and recording the outskirts of the Bay Area. In 2009 she moved to West Africa where she completed a series of unconventional portraits in Dakar, Senegal, and a series of television stills in the Canary Islands. She recently moved to New Rochelle, NY with her husband and three rescue cats.
Artist statement
Interstices, the places in-between, left out and leftover. Modern civilization is full of these gaps in constructed spaces of suburban and urban living— a highway underpass, an island between rushing cars, the trees planted for shade in a shopping mall parking lot. The detritus of our celebrations—birthdays, Christmas, graduation; the remnants of our consumer society—a jug of milk, a beer bottle, a dead bird—all cast aside, forgotten. By witnessing these things, these places, and markers of our everyday lives, I am renewing their existence, giving them agency for what they have been and what they will be. Each photo is a portrait of liminal objects and the places in which they exist. What has become invisible is seen.
