Wednesday Edition: Kelly Shimoda

This week's photo edition, an untitled piece by Kelly Shimoda, was a huge hit with the Hey, Hot Shot! panel this past Spring. The panel represents a diverse array of tastes by design, so everyone ooh-ing and ahh-ing over the same photo is a rare occurrence. This mysterious night shot was a show stopper.

We've made 3 editions of this photo. All are archival pigment prints on cotton rag paper. They'll be on sale on our site at 2pm (EDT) today:

200 of the smaller prints (6"x10") are available for $20 each.
20 of the medium prints (13"x20") are available for $200 each.
2 of the large prints (26"x40") are available for $2000 each.

Once the panel got past the oohs and ahhs, we moved into the "What is it?" phase. I confess that I still couldn't quite figure out what was going on. The balloons, the night sky, that halo of light showing a glimpse of green treetops.

Like most of Kelly's work, the perspective is a bit off-kilter and hard to define. She's usually lower or higher or closer or further away. Her unique cadence captures lights, angles and colors which might have been otherwise overlooked, transforming them into images that are entirely memorable.

In a recent email Kelly told me more about the photo:
The balloons were on an extremely busy intersection in Hanoi - mopeds, bicycles, crowds of people going quickly in every direction. A few women stood in the middle of it all, selling balloons to couples and children late into the night. Above all the madness, the balloons formed a beautiful landscape in the air.

And with that, we end our first week of new editions at 20x200! With a total of 8 works to choose from, you should have enough to keep you busy till next Tuesday's work on paper. And if all that beauty and talent isn't enough for you, turn your attention to the daily updates we'll be posting on the 20x200 blog. Still not enough? Tune into the Hey, Hot Shot! blog - with entries open for the Fall Edition, we'll be featuring new contenders daily.

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