THE EXHIBITION

This is the series’ third exhibition, second at Retail Therapy, with all new work, framed and on display. Images previously on display will be available as 4×6 prints, as well as new prints. All new mugs (featuring the candidate’s mugs!) will be debuted. And wine, too!

Contemporary politics have evoked such intense and visceral reactions in 2016, more so than any campaign in recent memory. In bold black and white, the personal photography project “Campaign in Contrast” visually echoes the spectacle of a starkly polarized presidential election: the harsh contrast of passionately partisan contests and the blunt ways supporters see themselves as well as their rivals — Republican versus Democrat, the Left versus the Right, capitalist versus socialist, conservative versus liberal, even good versus evil. From the bright spots to the dark crevasses, the monochromatic medium symbolizes the history of the timeless American experiment, still ongoing, with less and less room for gray.

The work has been featured in TIME, CNN, American Photography 32, Communication Arts’ 57th Photo Annual, Cannabis Now, Al Jazeera English, Courrier International (Paris), Die Zeit (Germany), PDNedu, PetaPixel, Reading the Pictures, Fisheye Magazine (Paris) The Stranger, City Arts Magazine, and KING5. The exhibition includes images taken at campaign stops this past year in Iowa, New Hampshire, Vermont, South Carolina, Nevada, Washington state, Wisconsin, Oregon, Indiana, California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, DC, Virginia, Colorando, and Arizona.

SELECT INTERVIEWS, REVIEWS + FEATURES

Courrier International (Paris), “Etats-Unis. Porquoi ils soutiennent Trump,” August 8, 2016
http://www.courrierinternational.com/diaporama/etats-unis-pourquoi-ils-soutiennent-trump

Fisheye Magazine (Paris), “Une campagne en hors-champ,” September 3, 2016
https://www.fisheyemagazine.fr/2016/09/03/une-campagne-en-hors-champ/

PetaPixel, “The Photographer Shooting Contrasty Closeups of Presidential Candidates,” July 9, 2016
http://petapixel.com/2016/07/09/photographer-shooting-contrasty-closeups-presidential-candidates/

CNN Photos, “Campaign close-ups from an unlikely photographer,” June 23, 2016
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/23/politics/cnnphotos-political-campaign-gowdy/

Communication Arts, 57th Photography Annual, June 2016
http://www.commarts.com/gallery/photography/unpublished/all/2016

City Arts Magazine, “Political Spectacle,” June 2016
http://cityartsonline.com/articles/political-spectacle

TIME, “Bernie’s Evolution,” May 26, 2016
http://time.com/bernie-sanders-2016-campaign/

American Photography 32, Winners Slideshow, May 2016
http://www.ai-ap.com/slideshow/AP/32/#172

PDNedu, “Nate Gowdy’s Campaign in Contrast,” April 19, 2016
http://edublog.pdnonline.com/2016/04/nate-gowdys-campaigns-in-contrast.html

Al Jazeera English, “US election snapshot: Inside a Donald Trump rally,” March 12, 2016
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/03/election-snapshot-donald-trump-rally-160311121404699.html

Reading the Pictures, “Trump as Orifice: Peterson, Gowdy Get to the Essence,” March 8, 2016
http://www.readingthepictures.org/2016/03/trump-orifice/

TIME Lightbox, “These Photographers Are Covering the Presidential Campaign on Instagram,” Jan. 31, 2016
http://time.com/4200438/these-photographers-are-covering-the-presidential-campaign-on-instagram/

ARTIST BIO

Nate Gowdy moved to Seattle seven years ago. Since getting a camera in 2011, he’s photographed hundreds of events, particularly in Seattle’s LGBTQ communities. Career highlights include landing the Bernie Sanders cover of TIME magazine in June, being the only photographer in the room with President Obama and Vice President Biden during their visits to Seattle, featured as Vogue Italia’s Photo of the Day twice, included in the American Photography annual four times in the past five years, selected for PDN and Communication Arts’ photo annuals, commissioned for four billboard campaigns, and attending 2013’s Eddie Adams Workshop, an annual gathering of the world’s top 100 emerging photojournalists.

CONTACT

For inquires and work samples:
nate.gowdy@gmail.com and http://www.nategowdy.com