KDHamptons Design: Don't Miss Photographer Drew Doggett's New Exhibit At Sylvestor & Co Amagansett Opening Aug. 23rd

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Fantastic photography is a prerequisite for any haute Hamptons home, and one of our favorite lensmen is Drew Doggett [below], who will debut a new collection of works entitled Dunes: Landscapes Evolving at Sylvester & Co. in Amagansett [154 Main Street] from August 14th until September 30th, with an artist reception on August 23rd. The images capture the grand shapes, endless lines, and subtle tonal gradients of the Namibian desert’s simple, yet beautiful environment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drew Doggett creates striking, beautifully composed photographs of isolated cultures and locations around the world. His imagery, collected on his trips to distant places, has been sought by museums, collectors and designers alike. Doggett’s style, an appealing blend of ethnography and fine art, explores broad ideas ideas of beauty and culture. Influenced by his background in fashion photography, Doggett’s work encourages viewers to find links and common ground between seemingly disparate places, cultures and peoples. The interaction between landscapes and human physicality is a particular focus of his work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drew shares, “Traveling for weeks with only a few companions, I came to recognize in the sand images from other parts of my life. Despite being worlds away, the lights and shapes, even the limited vegetation evoked real nostalgia. I created this collection knowing that the same would be true for others, that this place was special not only because of it’s grand scale but because of it’s ability to transport the viewer over and over again.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Immense and majestic, these dunes are the largest in the world creating what might
resemble a sea, sometimes bodies in abstract, or even modern architecture. For me, the experience of standing amongst the hills and mountainous dunes was not unlike sailing on the ocean, knowing that what I was looking at would soon be reshaped by the wind. Stacked upon one another, the sand in scorching Namibia creates great slinking curves that seem to go on for an eternity. They are made up of layers and layers of light and color, shapes and sizes. I chose these sculptural, sensual, and humbling dunes because they reminded me of one thing one moment, another the next: a country hillside, a beachside
town, or swimming in the sea. Both calming and dramatic, the process of cresting, and of photographing the seemingly endless dunes was inspiring and energizing; an experience of communicating with a landscape that is hospitable only to a handful of particularly hardy flora and fauna,” says Doggett.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Doggett’s fine art career began in 2009, with an expedition to the remote Himalayan region of Humla, Nepal. From that trip he published to a photography book, Slow Road to China, and founded Art Cares, a 10-year program that uses proceeds from Doggett’s book and print sales to help fund charities in the regions he has documented. Following the success of that first project, Doggett travelled in 2010 to Ethiopia, where he photographed the distinctive rites and traditions of ethnic tribes in the Omo Valley. In this collection, which has been accepted into the Smithsonian’s national archives, Doggett’s dramatically brings to life the defining elements of Omo land and culture.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Doggett is also famous for his photographs of wild horses on Nova Scotia’s remote Sable Island. An inspiring study of natural form and movement, the resulting body of work captures the singular strength, beauty, and dynamism of these extraordinary animals. His fine art photography is part of many private collections around the world. He lives and works in New York City.