The Project (using a Contax Tvs with a few PS tweaks):
Gregor Jamroski is a fine artist with an emphasis on photography. After spending 30 years in Seattle Washington, he currently lives in Nagasaki-city, Japan. He has shown his work in major galleries in U.S.
His photography work is can be categorized as both documentary and fine art photography, as he approaches his subjects with the same methodology. In Nagasaki, he lives within 500 meters from the reconstructed Urakami Cathedral - destroyed by Atomic Bomb dropped by the U.S. on Nagasaki during World War II- and less than 800 meters from Point Zero (the original location of the Urakami Cathedral).
Next to the reconstructed cathedral, is Urakami Park, where no plant life was expected to grow for 75 years. Yet the park is full of life: plants, birds, and yes - the children. Walking past the park daily, he stops to take photos and enjoy, with amazement, that above all life, and love perseveres against all odds.
This approach of daily photographs bears a significant philosophical to his series Sonnenblumen, where for seven years, approximately weekly, he photographed two plants in his Seattle garden - documenting their life-cycles: an echinacea that returned each year, and sunflowers planted yearly.
Similarly, in the series, "Here in Lies," documents Eastern European sites of historical importance to the Jewish Diaspora: cemeteries, synagogues and the post Shoah regeneration of once vibrant Jewish communities in Central and Eastern Europe. the photographs in this body of work are being fed into systems of remembrance such as the Jewish Cemetery Project, Wikipedia and others.
It is of no surprise that his work focuses on reclaiming. The thesaurus tells us recover, regain and retrieve are alternative words for 'reclaim.' it also gives secondary alternatives: rescue and redeem. While the methodology is an investigation of place and identity, reclaim, rescue and redeem are the sustenance of his work.
