Nathan Bett is an artist and freelance photographer living in Brooklyn, New York. He holds a BFA from Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan and an MFA from Parsons The New School For Design in New York, New York. His work has been shown at U.S. galleries such as the Aperture Gallery, The Camera Club of New York, and United Photo Industries, The Target Gallery, and internationally at the Pingyao International Festival of Photography in Pingyao, China and Cambridge University. In 2011 he received the National Photography Award from The Camera Club Of New York. His series Learning To Disappear is a digital update of traditional street photography. The images in this series express the feeling of being scrutinized by the very people being scrutinized by the camera. The series uses multiple images taken from a single vantage point and digitally composited together to examine the relationship between photographer and subject within contemporary street photography. The final product is a hyper real depiction of the city street in which all subjects contained in the image are confronting the artist (and by extension the viewer) through direct eye contact.
Nominated by Reviewer: Rafael Fuchs, Gallery Owner, Fuchs Projects
