“When I come home and see Poby’s beautiful large format “meditate” photograph I’m immediately at ease and peaceful. His photography inspires me.”
THE POBY COLLECTION
UNDER WATER PHOTOGRAPHY
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Touches
BLACK/WHiTE
PAINTINGS
“HIDDEN SCARS”
60x60 inch Oil on canvas. 2020.
Goalkeeper Ashleigh Johnson is the only current black athlete to compete on the women’s U.S. Olympic Water Polo team. I met Ashleigh and her team mates when I photographed and directed the olympic campaign for USA Waterpolo. These ladies are absolutely, excuse my words: bad ass. Oh, did I mention that they are current three times World Champions and current two times Olympic Gold medalists? All of them!
The scars you experience to get to the top will never be seen by others.
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"UNSPOKEN"
Oil on canvas 60x60 inch with 24 carat gold leafs. 2021.
Featuring Kelly and Justin. Intense profile portraits. Each viewer interprets the intensity in a different way, depending on their experiences in life. These portraits are meant to shine in the light and in the dark. The real gold leafs intensely reflect whatever little light hits them.
“TEX”
60x60 inch Oil on canvas. 2021.
I met Tex while photographing cowboys for an ad campaign, 45 of them doing their branding with 1200 cattle on a beautiful farm in northern California. We spend three days together, sleeping outside on a campfire, as cowboys still do. Tex is 86 years old and still on the horse doing what he loves most. He is a rare breed of real good character combined with a wicked sense of humor. Some say, you know he likes you when he makes rude jokes about you. Well he must have loved me that weekend then. I still don’t know what his real name is.
“ON YOUR SHOULDERS”
Oil on canvas 48x36. 2010.
An homage on my father painted in a black and white feel with memories fading.. I was one and a half years old when I was photographed sitting on Victor’s shoulders. Private collection.
IN PRIVATE COLLECTION
“ I REMEMBER YOU 1 “
Oil on canvas 50x50 inch 2021
This fond and happy look, when you see your ex at the other side of the room during a party. He sees her.
“ I REMEMBER YOU 2 “
Oil on canvas 50x50 inch 2021
This fond and happy look, when you see your ex at the other side of the room during a party. She sees him.
LUST AND PAIN
A series of three oil paintings on loose canvas. It is all about the moment between pain and lust. It is up to the viewer which direction it will go. A hidden secret. A forbidden look. A window be ? Watching others in the most intimate moment. Truly New York.
LANDSCAPES
“We were looking for just the right art for our public spaces at 185 Plymouth/NY and found them with Poby’s ethereal photos of the Manhattan Bridge and Brooklyn Navy Yard. Both the multiple exposure and scale of these photographs draws you in and connects you to the industrial history of the Brooklyn waterfront. They remind me of why I fell in love with Brooklyn 20 years ago.”
A SERIES OF 4X5 LARGE FORMAT ANALOG PHOTOGRAPHS. MULTIPLE EXPOSURES ON SLIDE FILM..
A series of 4x5 large format, analog photographs. All photographs are taken with a 1960s 4x5 large format Linhof camera while on the road across the USA in a 1965 Plymouth Barracuda classic sports car. Multiple exposures on slide film are creating this painting like look. Gallery mounted behind plexiglass, floating on the wall. Please check my DETAILS section for close up details of these photographs.
RAIN FOREST
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In support for the Foundation of Native Indians of Ecuador I lived with the Chuars and Achuars tribes, formerly know as the shrink head tribes. All photographs are taken with a Pentax 6x7 camera on Kodak Tri-X film. I am so grateful that I was deeply embraced by these wonderful people who shared their life with me.