Bernard Perry is a travel, landscape and social commentary photographer whose work has been accepted into the permanent collections of 18 Museums in the U.S. and Europe. Five books of his photographs have been published. He has exhibited at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, The Flynn Gallery of the Greenwich Library and solo at the Philadelphia Civic Center Gallery.The first piece he is submitting is titled “MY WATER LILLY.’ It was taken at the New York Botanical Gardens and represents a new approach to his work. It is rendered in black and white and uses an infrared lens to give the work an ethereal feeling.The second photograph he is submitting is titled “BEIJING RAILWAY STATION PLATFORM” and represents the social commentary aspect of his work. It speaks to the conundrum that is China today. On one hand, you have the very thin upper strata of industrialists and Communist Party officials who would never use this – or any – Railway Station. On the other hand, you have the many millions of ordinary Chinese for whom this is the only way they can get about their country and their lives. The two figures in the shadows represent these unseen masses who are looking and longing for something better. The light and the mood are reminiscent of a Hopper painting.
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