News

July 2006: Now represented by Josette Lata for advertising work.

June 2006: Moved office from Tribeca to Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.

Review: March 2006 Art in America. "...the photoportrayal of the city of Groningen in the uncompromising light of the area's northern sky. ...classic... The image fairly buzzes with intellectual activity, voices and ideas, residents old and young, a moment in real life permeated with the sweet reek of beer and cigarettes." —Edward Leffingwell (link to the full review)

NY Art Fairs 3/10-13/2006—at the New York Armory Show Schaden.com will show limited edition books bY Ken Schles. At the Pulse Art Fair Lucas Schoormans will show photographs.

Exhibitions: Ken Schles photographs ran through December 17th, 2005 at the Lucas Schoormans Gallery in Chelsea. From The New Yorker: "[Schles] hasn’t lost his ability to get under the skin of urban life, and his new work, made in the course of a project in Holland, finds him on solid ground. His subjects are ordinary citizens seen in passing: waiting for a train, sitting on a bus, peering through a café window. Although occasional eye contact is made, nothing is revealed. So it’s hard to account for the vague but persistent sense of yearning, unless the muffled melancholia is the photographer’s own."

My project Homeland Security debuted as part of the Noorderlicht Festival entitled Traces and Omens and ran September 4th through October 9th, 2005. Also running concurrently was an exhibition of Promised Land, which will inaugurate Noorderlicht's new home and exhibition space in Groningen, The Netherlands. Click here for more details on the festival and see below for more information on Promised Land.
Marks of Honour: A Striking Library opened 5/10/2005 at the FOAM in Amsterdam and includes the work of 45 internationally acclaimed photographers. Marks of Honour

Recently published: Promised Land, a Noorderlicht Foundation book, with photographs by Anders Petersen, Antoine d'Agata, Ken Schles, John Davies and Adrienne van Eekelen on the city of Groningen (NL). Previewed it and order it here. An exhibition from work made for the book will run during the Noorderlicht Photo Festival held in Groningen, The Netherlands (see above).
For a glancing mention in good company, see Nov/Dec 2004 issue of Photograph by Vince Aletti: "Silvia Plachy's effortlessly engaging Self Portrait with Cows Going Home started me thinking about personal photo books. Of course, any book with idiosycratic vision and integrity—Robert Frank's The Americans, Richard Avedon's Observations, Ken Schles's Invisible City, or my favorite among the current releases, Lee Friedlander's magnificent Sticks and Stones: Architectural America—is in essence personal..."

Publication: a portfolio of Invisible City in issue number 5 of FOAM, a quarterly publication of the Photography Museum Amsterdam.

Ken Schles Winner 2003 IPA Photographer of the Year Award for Culture. For awards listings click here. For bio, click here.