Marc Asnin work, renowned documentary photographer born in 1961, has been published many times in newspapers and magazines such as Life, Fortune, The New Yorker, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, French Geo, La Repubblica, the World, and Stern. Rewarded with numerous awards, he has been exhibited in many galleries and museums including the MOMA, Baltimore Museum of Art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Blue Sky Gallery.
Solo Exhibitions
2014 QCC Gallery ,Queens, New-York
2012 Steve Kasher Gallery, New-York
2007 Julia De Burgos Gallery, New-York, USA
1999 QCC Gallery, New-York , USA
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
1996 Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, USA
1995 Centre Régional de Créations Européennes, France
1992 University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
Northern Iowa University, USA
Texas Tech University, USA
1991 Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, USA
1985 Stockton State College, USA
El Taller, New-York, Stockton State College
1983 Popular Photography Gallery, New-York, USA
1982 El Taller, New-York, USA
Collections
Zimmerli Art Museum
Arthur S. Goldstein
Howard Stein Museum of the City of New York
Portland Museum of Art
ICP
QCC Gallery Smithsonian Museum of American Art
Book
Uncle Charlie, Éditions Contrasto, 2012
Group Exhibitions
2011 Fondation Aperture, NY, USA
2009 Look3, Photography Festival in Charlottesville, USA
Guangzhou Photo Biennale, Chine 2008 Fullerton Art Museum San Bernardino, USA
2005 Maison Européenee de la Photographie : “Portraits de Portraitistes”, Paris, France
2004 Moma Moscou, Russia
2003 Festival International de la Photographie, Samara et Togliatti, Russia
2000 Fotofest, USA San Fransisco Camera Work, USA New York Now 2000, MCNY Photo Fusion, Fl 1999 Visa Pour L’Image, France
1998 92 Street Y Gallery, Prayer in America, USA
Portland Museum of Art, USA 1997 Howard Greenberg, USA
1996 Fotofest, Houston, USA
BOCCA, USA
1994 Visa Pour L’Image, France
Millersville University, USA
Ansel Adams Center for Photography, USA
1993 Contemporary Art Institute of New-York, USA
Key Gallery, USA
Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, USA
1992 LA County Museum of Art, USA
Baltimore Museum of Art, USA
1991 Rutgers University, USA
SPE, NY, USA
MOMA, NY, USA
1990 Visa Pour L’image, France
1987 SPD Portfolio Show, USA
1986 SVA Gallery, USA
Awards and Honors
2013 Winner of the RFK Books & Journalism Award in photography category International Design Awards : first price for the book Uncle Charlie
Dextra Baldwin McGonagle Foundation 2012 Aperture/Paris Photo First Book Award Short List
2008 London International Creative Competition
Black & White Spider Award 2006 Society of Publications Designers
2002 Indiana University Distinguished Citizen Fellowship
2001 Alicia Patterson Fellowship
2000 MotherJones Documentary Grant
1993 Eugene Smith Grant
1992 NYFA Fellowship
Virginia Musuem of Fine Arts, Artist in residence
1988 NEA Fellowship
NYFA Fellowship
1987 Life Magazine, Photographers’s Grant
1986 Society of Newspaper Designers, Award of Excellence
Marc Asnin s'est très vite passionné pour la photographie. « A 12 ans, j'ai décidé que je voulais devenir photographe. Plus tôt, quand j'étais plus jeune, mon père était photographe publicitaire, et il avait un studio à Manhattan. (…) Je ne faisais pas de bonnes photos au départ, mais j'ai appris la technique, et j'ai surtout compris que c'était un métier de patience. Je suis allé dans une école d'art, pendant 4 ans, où je me suis rendu compte que je voulais devenir photographe documentaire, car j'aime l'actualité et l'histoire, ce sont les seules choses que j'aimais à l'école. » Ainsi, vers 18 ans, Marc Asnin commence &agr...
Marc Asnin has been photographing his Uncle Charlie for thirty years. By the early 1980s when Asnin was studying photography, the reality of his uncle’s life had trampled his boyhood fantasy. As a child Asnin was motivated by his admiration of Uncle Charlie as a big, streetwise strong guy with a gun. Charlie and his five children (Charles, Joe, Brian, Mary, and Jamie) lived together in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Frail, depressed and emotionally vacant, unable to work, unable to even leave his apartment, Charles Henschke was a shell of a human being.
Uncle Charlie is an extraordinary visual and reading diary that details the life of his godfather, Charlie, and his struggles with mental illness, isolation, poverty and familial relationships.
Asnin chose to use photography as the means to reconnect with Charles ...
A naked man wearing cowboy boots looks thoughtfully thought the window. A sunray falls on the floor of a small dusty flat in Brooklyn. A dog howls behind a child.
Uncle Charlie is, above all, a body. A skinny man’s body too soon damaged by drugs, by life, by mad- ness. A ravaged and abandoned body, on which the photographer lays his eyes with acuteness, but also tenderness and an infinite compassion.
This exhibition is the result of a 30-year-long work of utmost honesty. It is an intimate immersion whose scope was rarely matched in photography’s history. Marc Asnin took pictures of his uncle and his family during all these years. These richly textured images, deep and organic blacks and whites, paint the picture of a complex and disturbed man, Charles Henschke, the photographers’ u...