Ellen Kaplowitz: Faces/Places

It is with great pleasure that we present Faces/Places: Photographs from Southeast Asia, by New York based photographer Ellen Kaplowitz, as the latest exhibition in the gallery’s special project room.

For the past twenty years, Kaplowitz has photographed around the world, with a particular concentration on Asia. In this exhibition, she focuses on portraits and landscapes taken in the Southeast Asian countries of Burma, Laos, the Philippines, and Vietnam. Journeying off the beaten track, whether to remote villages or urban backstreets, she captures unique moments in a fast-changing region, always with an eye for color, form, and the kaleidoscope of human expressions.

Kaplowitz’s photographs have been seen in numerous museums across the United States, including the Field Museum, the Newark Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, the Pacific Asia Museum, the Asia Society, the Museum for African Art, the Peabody Essex Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, the New-York Historical Society, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her photographs have been published in magazines such as Time and Natural History, as well as her book A World of Decent Dreams: Vietnam Images.