I was given my first camera--a Kodak Brownie--on my Bar Mitzvah, and I have carried a camera almost continually since then. I used my camera to document the anti-Vietnam War, the anti-nuclear movement, and the New York City labor movement from the 1960s to the present, and I hope the new "Occupy" and Climate Justice movements will grow and keep me busy in the future. As a member of the “Minority Photographers” group in the 1970s, I participated in a number of exhibits throughout New York City and Westchester County, including New York's "Bus Show" in 1975, as well as a one-person show, “Mindscapes and Other Memorabilia”, at The Darkroom Gallery in Manhattan. Two of my photos were published in the magazine Women: a Journal of Liberation, and more recently, one of my photos, "Moondog", was published in a literary magazine, The Oxford American. In 2011, two of my photos were selected for a group show at the Self Made NY gallery in Brooklyn; in 2012 one of my photo collages was the cover art work for the internet art and poetry magazine Inertia, www.inertiamagazine.com/ issues/012/; in 2014 and 2016 I exhibited at the Lakefront Gallery in Hamilton, NJ; and in 2016 in the first Park Slope/ArtSlope Arts Festival in Brooklyn, as well as in exhibits at the Pennsylvania Center for Photography in Doylestown in 2017 through 2021. I’ve also been exhibiting with the Good Neighbors of Park Slope Artists in different venues for the past three years. I am currently working on two books: one about architectural ornamentation in my neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY, and I am co-authoring a monograph with my wife about stained and dalle de verre glass artist Robert Pinart. More of my architectural photos can be seen in my blog, "Architectural tiles, glass and ornamentation in New York". In 2019 my sister, Lynn Padwee, organized a photo exhibit in the Monroe Township (NJ) Public Library, "One Family--Three Photographers: Aaron, Lynn and Michael Padwee", dedicated to my wife, Susan, who died in 2019, and our son, Aaron, who was killed in 2018.
Contact: mpadweephotos@gmail.com
My photography website: https://www.irva.studio/michael-padwee-photographic-artist.html
My Long Island City-Artists webpage: https://www.licartists.org/michael-padwee
My Crevado Portfolio: https://michaelpadwee.crevado.com
Contact: mpadweephotos@gmail.com
My photography website: https://www.irva.studio/michael-padwee-photographic-artist.html
My Long Island City-Artists webpage: https://www.licartists.org/michael-padwee
My Crevado Portfolio: https://michaelpadwee.crevado.com
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PANDEMIC PORTRAITS
For an architectural and ceramic tour of Istanbul, see my two articles at http://architurist.blogspot.com/2013/12/an-architectural-and-ceramic-tour-of.html and http://architurist.blogspot.com/2014/01/an-architectural-and-ceramic-tour-of.html.
The 1949 Ambato earthquake was the largest earthquake in the Western Hemisphere in more than five years.
On August 5, 1949, the earthquake struck Ecuador's Tungurahua Province southeast of its capital, Ambato, and killed 5,050 people.
The city of Ambato was effectively destroyed, but it has re-emerged in colorful, quilt-like fashion during the past 70 years.
On August 5, 1949, the earthquake struck Ecuador's Tungurahua Province southeast of its capital, Ambato, and killed 5,050 people.
The city of Ambato was effectively destroyed, but it has re-emerged in colorful, quilt-like fashion during the past 70 years.
Heatherwick Vessel Series, Hudson Yards, Manhattan (Studies in Abstraction)