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Artist statement

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Diane Fenster: DISEQUILIBRIUM

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Created in response to personal and world upheavals...

My work explores the delicate and often tumultuous relationship between our inner and outer worlds. I aim to illustrate the inherent tension and balance that defines human experience through conceptual portrayals.

 

DISEQUILIBRIUM reflects the ongoing negotiation between internal emotions, perceptions, and the external realities we navigate daily. Using portraits, distorted in-camera (not via software), my photographs seek to evoke a sense of dissonance and harmony simultaneously. They invite viewers to examine their own internal landscapes and the external environments they inhabit, encouraging a dialogue about the transient states of equilibrium and imbalance that influence identity and perception. Ultimately, this body of work questions the nature of stability, challenging the viewer to embrace the fluidity of change as an essential component of growth and understanding. The titles of the photos are taken from the names of the winds of the world that can wreak havoc on all they encounter.

  

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Biography

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Diane Fenster's art first received notice during the era of early experimentations with digital imaging. Her work has been called an important voice in the development of a true digital aesthetic. She views herself as an alchemist, using digital tools to delve into fundamental human issues. Her images appear the APERTURE monograph METAMORPHOSES: PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE ELECTRONIC AGE, WOMEN, ART AND TECHNOLOGY published by MIT press, ART IN THE DIGITAL AGE edited by Bruce Wands, School of Visual Art, NYC and her work is internationally exhibited and is part of museum, corporate and private collections. 

Recent recognition includes First Place, PERSONAL NARRATIVE, LA Photocurator. Inclusion in DODHO Magazine’s PORTRAIT issue Top 100 portrait photographers and book and FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS issue and book. Photolucida’s Critical Mass Top 200, 2025 and 2022. Honorable mention Tokyo International Photo Award 2025. Honorable Mention Budapest International’s Foto Awards 2025. Into Your Eyes: Photographic Portraiture in the Digital Era,  juror Nicholas Fahey of Fahey/Klein Gallery.Two Honorable Mentions for selections from my Clothed In Widows Weeds series Self-portrait and Digital Manipulation/Collage categories of the 25th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers 2025. Bronze Award in Fine Art / Collage in the Budapest International Foto Awards BIFA 2024. Honorable Mention in the Digital Manipulation and Collage category of the 24th Julia Margaret Cameron Photography Awards 2024. Invited artist for the Art-Icon exhibition in Paris, supported by the ICP New York Center for Photography, and other partners. Shortlisted for the Royal Photographic Society’s International exhibit 164, inclusion in the International Center of Photography (ICP) #ICP Concerned exhibit and book, Honorable Mention Non-professional Self-Portraits  20th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards for the series  Shiva: for Ella Ruth, inclusion in SOBRE UNA MUJER (ABOUT A WOMAN), exhibit at AMA- Art Museum of the Americas,Washington, D.C. 880

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