Photography
Adam Amengual, "Adrien Caceres," 2011
- Item Number
- 38
- Estimated Value
- 1100 USD
- Opening Bid
- 500 USD
Item Description
Adam Amengual (American, b. 1981)
Adrien Caceres, from the Homies series, 2011, printed 2011
Archival inkjet print
Framed: 19 x 15 inches
Edition 3/10; signed and editioned on back
For his series Homies, Adam Amengual spent time at LA's Homeboy Industries, a non-profit organization that provides counseling, job training and other free services to former gang members (and the formerly incarcerated) looking to re-enter and contribute to society.
Amengual says of the organization, "It is a place that takes people in and sees the potential in them when others do not." Of the series, he explains:
The style in which these people have been photographed begs the comparison to a mug shot. Almost all of these people have been arrested and have had a mug shot taken of them. I feel like I have... made a more beautiful version of an ugly picture from their past—just like what the subjects themselves are doing with their own lives.
About The Artist
Adam Amengual received his BFA in photography at the Massachusetts College of Art. He then moved to Brooklyn, NY, and began assisting photographers in advertising, fashion, celebrity and music such as: Ruven Afanador, Don Flood, Danielle Levitt, Norman Jean Roy, Art Streiber and Ben Watts, to name just a few.
Homies has been featured on several blogs, including TIME Light Box, Conscientious and We Can Shoot Too.
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