March 07

Three Brothers, Christmas 2001

Marni Horwitz

Originally from Brooklyn, New York, Horwitz first became interested in photography when she was seventeen, after seeing Nan Goldin’s solo exhibition at The Whitney Museum. She was moved by the personal nature of Goldin’s work as well as her use of rich color. Horwitz started taking pictures of the world most immediately at hand --her family--a subject that continues to be of great artistic importance to her. Marni Horwitz graduated from Bennington College in 2001 with a BA in photography.

She then moved to the Czech Republic, attending Prague’s School for Film and Photography (FAMU). Over the course of the two years she spent there, Marni became enamored with the melancholic beauty of the land and the people, a melancholy that she also experienced as an outsider. This period led to a book entitled Desire Despair; Pictures from the Czech Republic and a solo show at A.I.R. Gallery in February 2006. Her work continues to document her personal life, while discussing the ambivalence we all experience in our relationships with our families, loved ones, and surroundings.

Horwitz has recently been included in the exhibits Risky Business; Five Photographers Shoot Their Families at the Hunterdon Museum in New Jersey, Voies Off a Photography Festival in Arles France, and Re:Generation a traveling group show starting at Rutgers College continuing to Smack Mellon and Kentler Fine Arts Galleries in Brooklyn.

More cover art:

Jeremy Sparig, Alphabet City after Snow Storm

Jerry and Orrin Zucker, The Strange Trip

Nick Fox-Gieg, The Story of Enoch

Jack Feldstein, The Loser Who Won

Hilla Lulu Lin, Rising of the Sunset

Loren Ellis, The World Cares

Andy Alpern, Fisherman

Jenny Krasner, Power Play X

Zohar Nir-Amitin, unexisted things exist in my head

Ahron Weiner, Ad Infinitum #167

Melissa Shiff, The Medium is the Matzo

Lilian Broca, Queen Esther