Were You There?

We hear hundreds turned out this past weekend to see the eerily beautiful photographs of Claire Rosen at Gallery 51.

If you missed opening night, the exhibit runs through March. About Claire...

Claire Rosen completed her BFA in Photography at the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2006. She spent the following two summers at the Maine Photographic Workshops, where she assisted for Joyce Tenneson. She has two distinct bodies of work; self portraits and antique dolls. Critics have called both groups of photographs, "haunting, mysterious, and unforgettable."

Rosen grew up in Montclair, NJ. She is the eldest of four sisters and has had a life long fascination with the psychology of childhood and memory. Much of her inspiration has come from fairy tales, nursery rhymes, fables and other children's stories. She is drawn both to beauty and darkness, as it exists in life, and her images explore this duality.