Brooklyn Arts Council

The night allows us to look at things differently and understand our relationship to things around us and to ourselves. "Shadow Man" is my interpretation of relationships of myself and the surrounding urban environment and my darker side, alter ego so to speak.

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Website: http://www.jamesalfalla.com

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Phone: 917 640 0334

99 Clermont Ave

Brooklyn, New York

11205

USA

James Alfalla is a Brooklyn-based photographer who lives and works in the neighborhood and internationally. His work is known for its capacity to mysteriously blur the lines between the figurative and the abstract. In this newly compiled series of photographs � shot in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn and in Peru � James has focused on the figures and shadows that haunt Brooklyn after dark. The images that make up Brooklyn Nights capture the unexpected relationship between color and movement -- on wet pavement, against crumbling walls, in our very backyard -- moments when color and form appear to emanate from another world. A simple Brooklyn streetlight lures us into one of his photographs.

This collection also features two of James� larger format works for which he is particularly recognized -- an artistic rendering that has been described as Man Ray meets Monet � where James takes pleasure in sculpting and reworking the naked silhouette to create a watery dreamscape of fleeting colors and figures.

I can discuss portfolio work as well as other commissioned work.