BYE FOR NOW

ISAAC HARRIS

SATURDAY, JANUARY 25TH - SATURDAY, MARCH 28TH

 

Var West Gallery is pleased to announce Bye For Now, a solo exhibition featuring street fashion photographer Isaac Harris. Harris, who also goes by the name Breaking Fad, has taken candid portraits of people in cities such as Berlin, New York, and Paris. Bye For Now will act as a retrospective, as well as a capstone, representing the past 8 years of Harris’s career capturing the extraordinary people he has met on the streets. 

  

Without a studio environment, and often spending no more than 30 seconds with any given individual, Harris captures the closeness and raw emotion within the human persona. Harris says about capturing this moment, “...you are getting that person in all their truth. There is no time to be a different person.” In these brief moments of photographing someone, the stranger becomes a friend. Losing his mother and sister to death in his late teens, Harris considers himself a kind of loner. And yet, behind the camera, a connection is made. “Each person I take a photo of I feel connected to them to this day. Just about every photo I’ve taken I know where it was or what the weather was on that particular day.”

 

Harris started his journey photographing people for their fashion choices as a way to break up his time from his business painting houses. Eventually, Harris began to feel more connected with the individuals themselves than the clothing they wore. Facial features and contextual artifacts become glimpses into the lives of his subjects. Keeping the photographs black and white allow the focus to be on the individual. When Harris does use color it is minimal and purposeful, used only to enhance the individuality of the person photographed. 

 

Isaac Harris was born in Columbus, Ohio where he attended The Ohio State University to study Journalism. He has photographed people from cities such as New York, Paris, and Berlin. Harris currently lives and works out of Milwaukee, WI and continues to travel to various cities around the globe.

Bye For Now: Work by Street Fashion Photographer Isaac Harris, opens Saturday, January 25th 2020 from 6pm-9pm and runs through March 28th 2020.