The Awards Collective was created to feature the works of artist who have received a Juror’s Award or Director’s Award in ASG’s Online exhibitions.  Jeremiah Dine’s  image “The Narcissist 1991“ received the Juror’s Award in the “portraits” exhibition juried by Elizabeth Flinsch.  Jeremiah’s exhibition “Anne-Marie” was featured from April 1 to April 30, 2024 and is discussed in our GalleryTalk with Jeremiah.

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Artist Statement

The images in Anne-Marie involve not just one camera, one face and body, one pair of eyes, but two consciousness merged to make something that didn’t exist    before, and that only existed at that one moment in time.

Francine Prose from her introduction

When you are in love with someone, their life, past, present and future, becomes in a curious way part of your life; and yet, at the same time, since two separate human entities in fact remain, you merely carry your own prejudices into another person’s imagined existence; not even into their ‘real’ existence, because only they themselves can estimate what their ‘real’ existence has been. 

Anthony Powell, The Acceptance World

 I can still remember that moment when I first saw her. July 1985. Blind date. We met in front of Cooper Union. She had a red bandana in her hair. I was shocked at how beautiful and cool she was. We spent the day together in a blur. She was funny and smart and sexy and seemed to like me. 10 hours later we were planning our next date. 

 These photographs are like our life. Some are beautiful, composed, and thoughtful, while others are out of focus, blurry, and poorly exposed. All of them were taken with the same aim- a desire to capture that thing that continues to fascinate me- the essential Anne-Marie.

Jeremiah Dine, October 2023

Anne-Marie and Jeremy met in 1985, while he was working as a studio assistant to Richard Avedon. Anne-Marie was working in the art department at Mademoiselle Magazine. They were fixed up on a blind date by their mutual friend Yolanda Cuomo, who was art directing at both of their jobs. It was literally love at first sight.

Anne-Marie immediately became part of his ongoing photographic “project”, AKA life.

They got married, had kids, moved multiple times, had health and economic issues,

lived through personal and global crises. Through all this she has been his constant artistic subject, as she has been his constant partner in love, art, parenting and friendship. This book is a document of 38 years together, their shared passion for each other, the world around them, and their vision as fellow artists.

Shot using a combination of 35mm and 120mm film, Digital, Polaroid, iPhone, Disposable camera, black and white and color, manipulated and “straight”. Designed by Yolanda Cuomo, edited by Yolanda Cuomo and Jeremiah Dine, with an essay by Francine Prose.

Jeremiah Dine, 2023

Bio

Jeremiah Dine is a New York City based Fine Art Photographer. After attending The Cooper Union, Jeremiah Dine published a book, Natural Selection (London/Stuttgart: Editions Hansjörg Mayer, 1983), 104 photographs taken at the American Museum of Natural History. Dine spent 2 years as a studio assistant to Richard Avedon, and then worked as a commercial/art photographer. His commercial clients included Conde Nast Publications, Simon & Schuster, and USA Today. His photographs were also published in Interview Magazine, The Village Voice, Esquire Japan, and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, among others. Dine’s second book, Daydreams Walking, 196 photographs shot on the streets of New York City, was published by Damiani in Spring 2020. Dine’s newest book project is Now is Tomorrow, 3 volumes of which were published by Understory Books in 2022.  Dine’s work is in many public and private collections around the world, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris.

website: jeremiahdine.com
instagram: @jeremy_dine

link to online exhibition